This spring, the Maryland club men’s basketball team traveled to Richmond, Va., for a game without its head coach. At halftime, the coach called to check in. The game wasn’t going well. The team was playing as if, well, its coach was missing.
The coach wanted to know more, so the coach, put on speakerphone for the group of sweaty, frustrated young men lingering and listening in a gym hallway, started to ask questions. Who was scoring well? Who did the other team have?
“And then she made an adjustment without even being able to see what's going on on the court,” said junior Andrew Tawiah, the club’s president and a former boys basketball standout at Owings Mills.