Case proud of former team
asSomewhere up there, former Greene girls’ basketball coach is smiling.
Case, who won well over 300 games as the Trojans’ longtime coach and 424 as a girls’ basketball coach at Whitney Point and Greene, retired at the end of the 2007-2008 season. He guided his last team to a 20-3 record and its first Midstate Athletic Conference championship in over a decade. He moved “up” to Bluehill, Maine this past summer where he accepted a full-time teaching position at George Stevens Academy. He also served as the assistant girls’ basketball coach, and had a hand in his team’s Eastern championship and runner-up in the Class C title game.
Geographically, Case is now several hours away from Greene, but through the Internet, he has kept in close touch with the program, and phoned current head coach Dave Gorton about two weeks ago. “This year I thought they could do it,” Case said in a phone interview this week – between classes at Stevens Academy no less. “I’ve been keeping tabs on them online, and you know I’m rooting for them all the way.”
Gorton inherited four returning starters including leading scorers Barb Borst and Megan McDermott. Also back were returning point guard Liz Wentlent and three-year varsity player Erin Smith. Through a change in enrollment, Greene moved down from Class B to Class C, and the switch moved the Trojans from contender to front-runner.
“Bill told me that when he retired and if I was to take the program, he would make sure it was not empty,” Gorton said after Saturday night’s Class C championship win over Odessa-Montour. “It most definitely was not empty.”
Case spent years building the program and developing young players with summer camps. He was still managing his summer camps right up to his departure to the northeast-most state in the union.
”I’m very proud of them,” Case said. “I still feel I had a little part in it. It’s hard, because I miss them, but I’m doing great.”
And the program should stay strong with Gorton for the foreseeable future. Gorton is a true Case disciple, and runs his offense and defense in similar fashion to his mentor. “Bill Case is a fantastic coach and a great person,” Gorton. “It was a pleasure to work as his modified coach all those years. I would say most of what I know comes from him. He was a very competitive person – I came with that, he didn’t teach me that – and he taught me a lot about basketball.”
Case, who won well over 300 games as the Trojans’ longtime coach and 424 as a girls’ basketball coach at Whitney Point and Greene, retired at the end of the 2007-2008 season. He guided his last team to a 20-3 record and its first Midstate Athletic Conference championship in over a decade. He moved “up” to Bluehill, Maine this past summer where he accepted a full-time teaching position at George Stevens Academy. He also served as the assistant girls’ basketball coach, and had a hand in his team’s Eastern championship and runner-up in the Class C title game.
Geographically, Case is now several hours away from Greene, but through the Internet, he has kept in close touch with the program, and phoned current head coach Dave Gorton about two weeks ago. “This year I thought they could do it,” Case said in a phone interview this week – between classes at Stevens Academy no less. “I’ve been keeping tabs on them online, and you know I’m rooting for them all the way.”
Gorton inherited four returning starters including leading scorers Barb Borst and Megan McDermott. Also back were returning point guard Liz Wentlent and three-year varsity player Erin Smith. Through a change in enrollment, Greene moved down from Class B to Class C, and the switch moved the Trojans from contender to front-runner.
“Bill told me that when he retired and if I was to take the program, he would make sure it was not empty,” Gorton said after Saturday night’s Class C championship win over Odessa-Montour. “It most definitely was not empty.”
Case spent years building the program and developing young players with summer camps. He was still managing his summer camps right up to his departure to the northeast-most state in the union.
”I’m very proud of them,” Case said. “I still feel I had a little part in it. It’s hard, because I miss them, but I’m doing great.”
And the program should stay strong with Gorton for the foreseeable future. Gorton is a true Case disciple, and runs his offense and defense in similar fashion to his mentor. “Bill Case is a fantastic coach and a great person,” Gorton. “It was a pleasure to work as his modified coach all those years. I would say most of what I know comes from him. He was a very competitive person – I came with that, he didn’t teach me that – and he taught me a lot about basketball.”
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