Hoops and Seeds - Johnson, Roger
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Covid ambushes America just as the 2020 NCAA basketball tournaments are to begin. March Madness, the best event in all sports, is canceled before the first jump shot is taken. The San Joaquin Valley Sequoias, a team posed to make a deep run at the Big Dance, has its dream of glory dashed. Hoops and Seeds tells how one championship women's team from central California navigates The Pause led by a coach who envisions the Gold Ball not as a trophy but as life itself. As Americans die by the tens of thousands and the nation is torn apart by poisonous politics, Coach Molly Rascon invests her entire…mehr

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Covid ambushes America just as the 2020 NCAA basketball tournaments are to begin. March Madness, the best event in all sports, is canceled before the first jump shot is taken. The San Joaquin Valley Sequoias, a team posed to make a deep run at the Big Dance, has its dream of glory dashed. Hoops and Seeds tells how one championship women's team from central California navigates The Pause led by a coach who envisions the Gold Ball not as a trophy but as life itself. As Americans die by the tens of thousands and the nation is torn apart by poisonous politics, Coach Molly Rascon invests her entire soul into shepherding her vulnerable ladies through the shadows until The Restart. It is a precarious journey during an unprecedented time.
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Roger Johnson is a retired history teacher and high school basketball coach living in Leadville, Colorado, during the summer and Green Valley, Arizona, in the winter. Hoops and Seeds is his seventh published novel, three Boomer history books and four girls' basketball books. All his books are extensively researched. In addition to his writing, Roger reads extensively, golfs, fly fishes, and plays noon basketball with friends. Currently, he is working on a novel dealing with refugee workers during the 1980s, mostly in Southeast Asia, Central America, and the Middle East.