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North Douglas Boys Basketball
Team Rundown:
After taking fourth place at the state
tournament last season, and losing to
the eventual state champions in the
first round, the Warriors are going to
look a little different this season.
This year North Douglas has a new
leader in first year coach Tyle Van-
cil, in addition to four open starting
spots. But Vancil, a 2008 North
Douglas graduate and a current
police officer and school resource
officer in Roseburg, is excited for the
opportunity to lead this group.
“My wife has been asking me every
day, ‘How did practice go?’ And I
said, ‘It’s been awesome.’ I didn’t
know how much fun I would have
just being on the court and coaching
kids,” said Vancil.
“This is a great group of kids and
they are so coachable. You know, you
hear that all the time growing up. You
guys are coachable, you’re coachable,
but I didn’t quite grasp it. I mean, I
knew what they were saying but when
you switch roles that’s when I really
realized what they mean.”
The goal for this team will be to
build off of the success of the lone
returning starter, junior Caleb Parks,
and see if the team can get back to
the level of success that they experi-
enced last season.
“It’s going to be through effort,”
said Vancil. “We have a lot of young-
er guys that are stepping up and fill-
ing those roles and that’s what you
need… Your hope is that the next
guys coming up that played JV last
year and maybe swung, step up into
those starting roles and are ready to
go.”
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Team Perspective
with Caleb Parks:
On his new role:
It kind of is a little different be-
cause last year we had so many sen-
iors on the squad that I was kind
of, not necessarily an outcast, but
not necessarily a leader as all of
them are. And now taking all of
their roles kind of and having put
together and keep the team strong
and together is going to be a big
difference.
On teammates stepping up:
I feel there were quite a few guys
on the JV squad last season that
if we didn’t have so many varsity
guys could have played some sig-
nificant minutes for the varsity. I’m
extremely hopeful for the guys that
could have played a bubble slash
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swing or even started some varsity
games. To come in and take those
spots that were left behind by those
seniors and the now seniors, they’re
going to get some more minutes
that they got more at the end of
games last year when they still per-
formed extremely well and to be
able to play 32 minutes of their
basketball.
On how they can succeed:
I think if we keep strong and not
compare ourselves to last year’s
team but build our own team from
what we have, then we can go on
and make another big run like we
did last year. As long as we try to
stay away from some of the mis-
takes we made last year and learn
from our own this year I think we
can have a good, solid team.
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