Outstanding Ohioans

For the next three podcast episodes, I had the pleasure of talking to Matt Kramer, a terrific High School Basketball Coach and Author.  Matt currently resides in Georgia, but was born and raised in Northeast Ohio.  His current team Milton High School is one of the outstanding programs in Georgia with national-level aspirations. Coach Kramer is the co-author of the great book The Best-Laid Plans of a High School Basketball CEO, which he wrote with legendary Ohio High School Basketball Coach Randy Montgomery.  Coach Kramer wrote the book to document his journey and provide a resource for up and coming coaches. Here are the fantastic highlights from our great conversation: Looking up to his dad, a teacher and coach, who provided the inspiration for his own playing, teaching, and coaching career. Having an outstanding athlete to learn from in Olympian Butch Reynolds. The core values he learned growing up about:  caring for players, skill development, building relationships with a family-type environment, be inv