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    The Little Things That Matter in the Big Game: Specific Things Any Young Person Can Do
    The Little Things That Matter in the Big Game: Specific Things Any Young Person Can Do
    The Little Things That Matter in the Big Game: Specific Things Any Young Person Can Do
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    The Little Things That Matter in the Big Game: Specific Things Any Young Person Can Do

    By Kathy Boehlert and Patrick Boehlert

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    What did a high school varsity basketball team and a nine-year-old boy with cancer have to do with each other during the 20102011 season? The basketball team encouraged and lifted up the nine-year-old. The nine-year-old encouraged and lifted up the basketball team.
    This is the story of how a local high school basketball team helped my son, Patrick, through the difficult chemotherapy he was receiving to treat stage three acute lymphoblastic lymphoma. They didnt know anything about Patrick other than that he was a big fan when the season started. As the season went on, all thirteen players began to reach out to Patrick; eventually he became part of the team. Their interactions and support gave Patrick windows of time when he was not a cancer patient. He was a fan and a teammate.
    Patrick served as an example to the team that there is more to life than basketball. He showed them that life is The Big Game and that the little things really do matter.
    I think this is a great story, and all young athletes should read this. It reminds us all that there is always somebody watching you and you are making a difference in their life, one way or another.
    Dan Harwood, teacher and basketball coach at Magruder High School
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateOct 23, 2012
    ISBN9781449771218
    The Little Things That Matter in the Big Game: Specific Things Any Young Person Can Do
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    Kathy Boehlert

    Kathy Boehlert is a wife and the mother of three boys. When her youngest son, Patrick, was diagnosed with lymphoma at the age of nine, her family began a journey of heartache and fear. It was also a journey of incredible inspiration and support. Kathy and Patrick lived this story along with the rest of their family. They decided to share their account with everyone. The Boehlert family resides, attends school, works, and supports the Magruder Colonels in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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      The Little Things That Matter in the Big Game - Kathy Boehlert

      Copyright © 2012 Kathy Boehlert and Patrick Boehlert

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7121-8 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7122-5 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012918967

      WestBow Press rev. date: 10/18/2012

      Contents

      Foreword

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Book 1:   The Diagnosis, the Disease, and Dealing with It

      Chapter 1 - It Started as a Swollen Tonsil

      Chapter 2 - It’s not Just a Swollen Tonsil

      Chapter 3 - The Whirlwind

      Chapter 4 - The Support

      Chapter 5 - The Treatment

      Book 2:   The Little Things that Matter in the Big Game

      Chapter 6 - The Transition to Maintenance

      Chapter 7 - Becoming Magruder’s Biggest Fan

      Chapter 8 - Patrick’s Wish Dilemma

      Chapter 9 - A Wish Granted

      Chapter 10 - The Little Things that Matter

      Chapter 11 - The Big Night

      Chapter 12 - After the Big Game

      Chapter 13 - Some Recognition for the Team

      Chapter 14 - The Season’s End

      Chapter 15 - What More Can We Say?

      Chapter 16 - Why Did We Write This?

      Magruder Varsity Basketball Team 2010–2011 Season

      Epilogue

      Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve … You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

         —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

      Foreword

      When Kathy Boehlert told me her nine-year-old son Patrick—with her help—had written a book on his experience with our 2010–2011 varsity basketball team here at Magruder High School, my first thought was, Oh my God, I hope I didn’t yell at him at practice one day! Something like, Hey Patrick will you get the heck out of the way! We have a big game tomorrow! I was pretty confident I always treated Patrick well, but as a sometimes emotional coach, I have been known to raise my voice on occasion, and not always at the appropriate time.

      When I found out Patrick had two wishes, one: to meet Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, and two: to meet our boys’ varsity basketball team at Magruder High School, I was like … we are second? All kidding aside, I was touched. I explained to my team Patrick’s situation with his health and his wish to get to know the players. Then they simply took over, as you will see clearly in this book.

      Magruder High School is a very diverse school, and my team reflects that diversity in that we have kids from many nationalities and many economic backgrounds. As someone who has been involved in sports for my entire life, I think one of the challenges in coaching today (as opposed to when I was playing) is there are more outside pressures and much more parental involvement. Many times these pressures lead to selfishness in student-athletes and a What can the team or the sport do for me? attitude.

      From my perspective as a long-time coach and former college player, but just as important, from my perspective as a parent of four grown children, I know there is nothing quite so gratifying as watching your children play. Conversely, I also know there is nothing quite so gut-wrenching! That parental role is sooo much more difficult than playing or coaching. (Watching the Olympics in London, this fact was evident, as the cameras continually zoomed in on the Olympians’ squirming parents and siblings!)

      I can’t tell you how many times I have heard from parents of my players, parents of the students I teach, or parents of the kids that I have at my basketball camp in the summer that they just want their child to be happy. This is a very complex feeling to attain—at least on a consistent basis—and parents can’t really attain it for their kids.

      My players have taught me so much in my career. However, nothing they’ve taught me is more important than how they have shown me that if you want to attain happiness on a consistent basis, the best way is to give to others. Coaching and teaching have given me the greatest gift in the world: the opportunity—on a daily basis—to make a difference in someone’s life.

      When I read Patrick’s book, I was so overwhelmed by the passion my players had and the commitment they made to a nine-year-old boy. The big thing is, I wasn’t telling them what to do, to

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