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No. 18 Vol. 3
My Life Publications • 973-809-4784 March 2022
Wayne Valley Boys Head Basketball Coach Joe Leicht Achieves Another Milestone
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By Steve Sears n January 6, 2022, Joe Leicht, Wayne Valley High School boys head basketball, coach won his 300th game at the school, defeating Lakeland High School, 70 – 35. Leicht, 69, is also toeing the line at a career total of 600 victories. Prior to his start in 2004 at Wayne Valley, he won 283 games at Indian Hills High School in Oakland. “This is what I do,” says Leicht of coaching. “And I’ve always loved high school, and I always knew that eventually I was going to come back and be a high school coach. And that’s what I’ve done. This is really my 48th year of high school coaching, and it’s just great.” Leicht discusses three things that haven’t changed during his coaching tenures. “What hasn’t changed is that the kids always clamor for structure and for discipline,” he says. “Sometimes discipline is construed as a bad word. It’s not. It’s doing what you’re supposed to do, when you’re supposed to do it, as best as you can. That never has changed from day one, when I walked into Indian Hills in the fall of 1974 until now. The kids clamor for discipline, they clamor for structure, and they respond to it.” The second thing, Leicht claims, is you can never fool kids. “You’re either a phony or you’re genuine,” he says. “If you work your tail off on the mental side of it, if you’re always prepared, they will do anything that you ask them to do.” And then there’s communication. “You have to show them that you genuinely care about them, aside from the field or the court.” As far as what has changed, Leicht feels it is the athleticism of the player due to the weightlifting. “If you give them the structured weight program,” Leicht says, “it just makes the kids faster, stronger, and quicker. So, in that regard, that’s the biggest thing that has changed. The athlete
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Wayne Valley Boys Head Basketball Coach, Joe Leicht. Photo courtesy of Sue Leicht.
now is a heck of a lot stronger, quicker, and everything else than they were back then.” Leicht, who has coached both boys and girls sports, finds it hard to pick a favorite team he’s been on the sideline for. “It’s hard, because there’s so many teams that you could say overachieved that may not necessarily win a championship, like my 1986 Indian Hills boys basketball team,” he says. “We got all the way to the state semi final because those kids completely overachieved. They did anything you continued on page 2
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