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Here is an article from today's Argus about our newest women's BB coach:
Jacks' coach juggles work, family life
PUBLISHED: December 12, 2007
SHREVEPORT, La. - Travis Brewster has been a basketball coach since before becoming a husband or a father, and traveling is part of the game.
The fact that extended absences are status quo doesn't make them any easier for him or his family.
Brewster's first year as an assistant with the South Dakota State women's basketball team includes 15 road games in 10 different states plus the District of Columbia. Although it pales in comparison to his days of playing professionally in Switzerland and Northern Ireland, the Jackrabbits travel schedule is more mileage intensive than what he dealt with while working at North Dakota or Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The home stretch of an ongoing seven-game road trip requires Brewster - the only married member of the Jackrabbits staff - to be gone eight out of 10 nights.
As much as he cherishes every minute with his family, sometimes it seems easier to stay away between lengthy journeys.
"It's not so bad when you're away because you get to talk to them on the phone," said Brewster, a 1994 graduate of Charleston Southern. "It gets a little more heartbreaking when you go home and they say, 'I missed you,' and you get hugs and stuff, you put them to bed and they say, 'I don't want you to leave anymore.' And they ask you why."
Why? Because he loves his job, too.
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PUBLISHED: December 12, 2007
SHREVEPORT, La. - Travis Brewster has been a basketball coach since before becoming a husband or a father, and traveling is part of the game.
The fact that extended absences are status quo doesn't make them any easier for him or his family.
Brewster's first year as an assistant with the South Dakota State women's basketball team includes 15 road games in 10 different states plus the District of Columbia. Although it pales in comparison to his days of playing professionally in Switzerland and Northern Ireland, the Jackrabbits travel schedule is more mileage intensive than what he dealt with while working at North Dakota or Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The home stretch of an ongoing seven-game road trip requires Brewster - the only married member of the Jackrabbits staff - to be gone eight out of 10 nights.
As much as he cherishes every minute with his family, sometimes it seems easier to stay away between lengthy journeys.
"It's not so bad when you're away because you get to talk to them on the phone," said Brewster, a 1994 graduate of Charleston Southern. "It gets a little more heartbreaking when you go home and they say, 'I missed you,' and you get hugs and stuff, you put them to bed and they say, 'I don't want you to leave anymore.' And they ask you why."
Why? Because he loves his job, too.
(read more)