Bound Brook head coach Anthony Melesurgo talks to Central Jersey Sports Radio live on the air after his team’s win over Immaculata to take the Skyland Conference Tournament title on March 6, 2021.
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Basketball coaches – the best ones – are often revered by their former players, sometimes even more when they become former players.
That’s because it’s not just what their coaches taught them about Xs and Os, but about life, or even just the idea of perseverance, battling through adversity, lessons that can be used in all walks of life, not just in basketball.
Like all head coaches, life was about more than basketball in 2021, even after last season ended normally for Bound Brook, as it does for so many teams: with a loss, not a COVID shutdown – though that came soon later. Life became about dealing with the pandemic. Throw on that the killing of George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter movement that continued to grow in its wake, and it made for a difficult, scary and unsure path to navigate.
To come through all of that, get through a (shortened) basketball season with no self-inflicted COVID shutdowns – though they had a brief pause due to contact tracing with another team – and go through it undefeated, winning a championship, Bound Brook head coach Anthony Melesurgo has been named the 2021 Central Jersey Sports Radio Boys’ Basketball Coach of the Year.
Click below to hear Anthony Melesurgo talk with CJSR’s Mike Pavlichko:
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