Father Husband FHS AD retired Varsity Basketball Coach Retired Principal Ohio State Buckeyes Green Bay Packers Pay it Forward
Fostoria, OH
Joined April 2009
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CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Every teammate should be able to answer 3 questions:
1. What does this team need from me?
2. Can my teammates count on me?
3. Am I making my teammates better?
Great teams are built by players who stop asking, “What’s in it for me?” and start asking, “How can I help us win?”
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Gavin Williams ties the @CleGuardians record for strikeouts in a #Postseason game!
ALT Gavin Williams 12 Strikeouts Pictured: Gavin Williams wears a red Guardians uniform and a dark blue and red cap. ALDS presented by Booking.com
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Made our donation this afternoon! Thanks to Mrs. @CoachLoom for the assist! @goodwillnow @FostoriaSuper @Goodwil #Passitonchallenge @scannermedia1 @FostoriaHSHoops
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Tonight's the night! Volley for the Cure! @GenoaSports vs @RedmenRundown
We'll have raffles and games including the chance to win a flat screen TV.
Come out and support a good cause!
The freshman match will start at 5pm.
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Day 2 of the Goodwill Pass it on Challenge Tom from 2-6pm in the South parking lot at the high school.
goodwillnwohio.com/
@goodwillnow
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
🚨 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 🚨
A lockdown & physical defender is ready for the challenge‼️ Welcome the Brotherhood, @jordanthomas_21 🌰
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
nfhsnetwork.com/events/fosto…
If you can't make it to the home opener 🏈 game at Fostoria Memorial Stadium on Friday, you can catch the Livestream here.
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
⛳️#OHSAA GOLF: The golf season begins tomorrow for member schools of the Ohio High School Athletic Association, which marks the #OHSAA’s 121st year for interscholastic athletics in Ohio! Golf is the first sport to begin play for the 2026-27 school year.
➡️Check out season information at:
ohsaa.org/sports/golf
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Winning becomes possible when nobody is obsessed with being the reason for it.
No one fighting for the spotlight.
No one worried about who gets mentioned.
Just people locked in, doing their job, making the extra effort, and putting the team above themselves.
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
I share E+R=O lessons in my Daily Discipline newsletter. E+R=O means Event + Response = Outcome.
If you use E+R=O or want to learn more, then it's worth subscribing. But in case you don't, here's one of this week's lessons:
It's easy to acknowledge and accept that we don't control events. It's harder to admit the same is true for outcomes.
We want to believe that, with the right response, we can control the outcome. We can engineer it, command it, or force it.
But if that were true, what would your life look like right now? If you had control of outcomes, wouldn't things be different?
That's the first lesson of E+R=O. That's always the first lesson, no matter the audience. Before the skills, strategies, and techniques. Before the examples and applications.
You must accept the fixed truth of the physics of E+R=O.
You don't control events. You don't control outcomes.
You control your response.
You can earn outcomes you desire. But you can't control them.
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
It's back!!! The FHS boys basketball and golf teams have joined together to host our annual golf scramble on June 14th at Loudon Meadows Golf Club in Fostoria. 9am shotgun start.
Contact @CoachLoom for info or to register.
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Tom Izzo shares an uncomfortable truth about earning your spot.
"You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in."
"That's the American way - except America has gotten soft."
You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn.
It starts with showing up and earning it every single day.
No shortcuts...Just hard work.
(🎥@CBBonFOX )
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
“When you allow your children to grow up it’s a direct, direct reflection of your parenting. If you hover over them all the time and they can’t work through problems, they’re going to have some issues. You’ve got to let them work through problems because they’re working through the things you’ve instilled in them,” Dawn Staley
Let them learn.
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Our 4th year of hosting @BreakthruBball camp is coming up in June.
Registration is open now:
breakthroughbasketball.com/c…
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Kid showed up 10 minutes late to practice last Thursday.
Freshman.
Third week on the team.
Still learning how everything works.
I didn't say anything.
Just moved the practice forward without him.
He jogged up, quiet, and slid into the back of the group.
Everyone kept moving.
During the cool-down, I saw two of our leaders pull him aside by the fence.
Couldn't hear what they said.
Didn't need to.
Just watched them talk — calm, serious, no raised voices.
The kid nodding.
Listening.
Thursday afternoon, 4:47 PM, my phone buzzes:
"Won't happen again, Coach. My bad."
I never tell new coaches this is what's possible because they don't believe me.
They think you have to enforce everything.
Make the call on every situation.
Be the one who holds the line.
But when your architecture is clear — when everyone understands what the goal demands — the team regulates itself.
Those leaders weren't doing me a favor.
They were protecting something they built.
I don't police alignment.
The standard does.
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
PARENTS:
If your kid isn’t playing, encourage him to be a great teammate, work & compete extremely hard in practice, and have a great attitude. Quit thinking there’s a conspiracy theory as to why he isn’t playing. Sometimes the kids in front of him are simply better. That’s life!
CoachLoo❌ 🏀🥎 retweeted
Tonight's boys home basketball game vs Oak Harbor has been postponed and rescheduled for this Saturday, January 31st. The JV game will tip at 5:30pm
