[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 30 (Thursday, March 17, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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[Congressional Record: March 17, 1994]
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              COACH TAFT WATSON--TERRELL'S BAY HIGH SCHOOL

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                         HON. JAMES E. CLYBURN

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 17, 1994

  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor high school 
basketball coaching legend Taft Wilson, who, on March 12, 1994, became 
one of the few, if not the only, coach to win two State basketball 
championships on the same day.
  This is an amazing feat for a man who began his high school coaching 
career 45 years ago, and who came out of a 4-year retirement at the age 
of 70, to lead the Marion County, SC, Terrell's Bay High School boys' 
and girls' basketball teams to State class A titles.
  Watson, who has coached two of his sons and is now coaching a 
grandson and a granddaughter, has used athletics to cope with personal 
adversities.
  He also tries to teach his young players how to transfer the skills 
they've learned in sports into the real world.
  ``Discipline, anticipation, and execution,'' are the qualities Coach 
Watson lists as his keys to success. ``That's true in the game of 
basketball; that's true in the game of life,'' he said in a recent 
newspaper article.
  In an age when so much is being written about our young people and 
violence in public schools, people like coach Taft Watson are to be 
commended for dedicating their lives to training our young people not 
only to be better ball players, but to be better human beings.

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