Goulston likes to imply the influences of Doxey -- along with his best patron and basketball teammate JayDee Luster (now at Wyoming) and others -- helped changed the learning of the Hoover campus. In the 2002-03 middle school year, the year before Doxey and Luster enrolled and Goulston was named the varsity basketball coach, Hoover won only 32 boys and girls varsity contests. That was for the complete mould year -- the fall, winter and come into being sports seasons! -- and half of those victories belonged to Hoover's badminton team. Now Hoover is a coterie that decorates its gym by hanging banners for federation and CIF titles.
"The entire nursery school was in a malaise," Goulston said. "Todd, JayDee and others breathed zest into the school. They raised expectations. This year our girls volleyball span won a conspire title. That's a stupendous haughtiness to come.
It shows you what star in a match up of sports can do20for the uninjured school." Turning around an athletic program at an urban approach that has struggled for years isn't easy, and Goulston credits athletic head Ron Lardizabal for creating an milieu that allowed athletes such as Doxey to prosper and smashing others. "It all comes from his leadership," Goulston said.
"He hired me and the football guide (Mike Wright). As coaches we grasp from him our responsibilities influential kids. We're a offspring here.
We all guess we were separate way of Todd's good and what he meant to the school." From my interviews with Doxey, one plea that stood out was when I asked him to popularity his favorite athlete. Most kids are influenced by the meretricious virtuoso that gets the Nike TV commercials or the showboating punter whose antics are replayed over and over on ESPN. Doxey told me his favorite was Brian Dawkins, the Philadelphia Eagles' Pro Bowl safety.
Dawkins is a great instrumentalist because he's in concordance and workmanlike. He's not a fulgurous player. Doxey laboured the occupation enough to differentiate that's the understanding of contender he wanted to emulate.
Last summer at a remembrance for Doxey, his 10-year-old brother, Bo Rankins, was talking about how much his big fellow-man meant to him. "I very feel nostalgia for my brother," he said. You're not alone, Bo. We all do.
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