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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 The Kings Mountain Herald McDowell takes over BC basketball program By GARY STEWART Sports Editor Kings Mountain’s Danny McDowell has been named head men’s basketball coach at Bessemer City High School. McDowell, former head coach at Kings Mountain High, has spent most of his life in gyms and believes in disciplined and funda- mentally-sound style of play. McDowell served as head coach at KMHS for five years and won three consecutive Southwestern Foothills Conference titles in 2002, ‘03 and “04. His final two Mountaineer teams won the sectional titles and lost in the Western Regionals to teams (West Rowan and Trinity) that went on to win the state champi- onship. McDowell played high school ball at Com- pact and Kings Mountain highs. After he began his teaching career at Bethware School he immediately got into coaching in the Boys Club, AAU, middle school, JV and high school ranks. : After retiring from the KM School System, McDowell coached four years at Charlotte Christian, including last season as head coach of the girls team. He took a team that went 6- 20 the year before and turned them into a 20- 8 team that finished third in the state tournament. : He has won numerous Coach of the Year awards, including the Gaston Observer and Gaston Gazette awards when he was at KMHS and the Carolina Weekly COY Award when he was at Charlotte Christian. McDowell’s championships seem to come in threes, so the Yellow Jackets look forward to some good times once McDowell gets his pro- gram established. McDowell won three straight conference championships when he was JV coach at KMHS, three straight when he was head coach at KM Middle, and the three straight when he was head coach at KMHS. He coached 10 straight North Carolina state championship teams at the Kings Mountain Boys Club’s AAU program, won one national championship and two national runners-up. McDowell says titles won’t necessarily come soon at BC because the Yellow Jackets had eight seniors on last year’s team and they got most of the playing time. But, like he did at KMHS, he plans to build from the ground up and play a lot of young players in hopes of having a championship program for the future. “What I want to do is restore something good for a city that had a black eye last year,” McDowell said, referring to a night when play- ers went into the stands to confront hecklers. “It’s going to be a long, slow process,” he added. “Most of the guys that got playing time were seniors and because of the transition (in coaches) they’ve had no open gym and won’t have until football season is over. In a small school most of your basketball players play - football, too.” McDowell said official practice begins on November 1 but it will mostly be “tryouts” be- cause he doesn’t know a single player. “When you lose eight seniors you obvi- ously don’t have a lot of talent coming back,” he said. “But I would rather build with young players. That’s the way to build a team. You "just start at the foundation and go up.” DANNY McDOWELL Like in the past, McDowell said he will have a “mission statement” that spells out what is expected of the players in areas such as con- duct, leadership and character and all players ° and parents have to sign it. “It’s going to be a challenge, and one I look forward to,” he said. “We’ve got to restore dis- cipline, be dedicated and be held accountable. I’ve always been a strong disciplinarian and everyone has to be held accountable in and out of the classroom. 5 “November first will be the first time I see any of those guys and most other teams will have been playing. summer ball, AAU and going to camps,” he said. “With us being in transition none of our players have done that. But Bessemer City has a great administration from top to bottom and they have welcomed me like I’ve been there forever.” McDowell said coaching closer to heise “will be a blessing for him. Except for his time in Charlotte, all of his years in coaching have been in or near his hometown. The Yellow Jackets will have just two weeks to get ready for their season. Right off the bat, they will play some of the best teams in the area, including 3A.powers Hunter Huss and Forestview, and then when they get into conference they’ll be battling traditional pow- ers like Cherryville, Lincoluton and Highland Tech. “We’ll have to be Sedicates, disciplined and focused,” McDowell said. “You know I would love to press and get up and down the floor but we probably won’t have the person- nel to do that right away. “But we can be fundamentally sound and a lot of times that will allow you to stay in a game or steal a game. Being fundamentally sound sometimes makes up for a lack of height or quickness. It helps you compensate for a lot of things.” Page 5B SCARY STORY CONTEST 3 Age Categories: Grades 1-2; 3-5; 6-8 STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO WRITE A STORY ABOUT THE PICTURE SHOWN HERE. TELL US WHY ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE ARE LOOKING OUT THE WIN- DOWS? WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING AT OR LOOKING FOR? IS THAT A SKELETON LOOKING OUT ONE OF THE WINDOWS? 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