Long-lost coach found: reunion after 45 years

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Coach Steve Schweitzer was my high school basketball coach. I entered the Courter Tech High School gym to try out for the basketball team in the fall of 1970. There, before my very eyes, stood my coach. I had no idea what organized sports would do for my future; I was just a fifteen-year-old kid who knew he was good at sports. To this day, I still feel my best sport is baseball, followed by football, and finally, basketball. I played all those sports in the neighborhood streets and parks of the West End, South Cumminsville, and College Hill neighborhoods. When my cousin Willie (Mike) McCarter became an All-American basketball player at Drake University and was drafted in the first round by the Los Angeles Lakers (of which, to this day, I am still a dedicated fan), I began to focus on basketball. It is essential that I let everyone know why Chris Jones, Darnell Dawson, and I needed to find him. Coach made the three of us co-captains during our senior year, and we have been attached to the hip since then. We wanted the world to know how vital our coach was to us. About two years after...

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