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Former K-State basketball player, Blue Valley Northwest grad launches coaching career

They say teamwork makes the dream work, and that's definitely proven true for at least one former K-State basketball player.

Ever since he was a high school freshman at Blue Valley Northwest, Mason Schoen has dreamed of one day becoming a basketball coach. A walk-on with the Wildcats, he sought out pathways toward that goal.

“It’s been a long time coming for me, wanting to be a basketball coach,” Schoen said. “I took it serious. I had a lot of passion for the dream. I became like a sponge to absorb knowledge … I was lucky enough to have coaches that saw that.