Mr. Cecere, a Virtual Academy Coordinator here at EHS, has been recently hired as the head basketball coach for the girls’ program.
Mr. Cecere has coached since he was fifteen years old. “I have played since I was four or five and started coaching rec when I was fifteen,” Mr. Cecere said.
Edgewood is not the only place Coach Cecere has coached at “I have coached at Ross, Colerain High School, Elder High School, Fairfield High School, and Sycamore High School,” Coach Cecere said.
Since he has never coached inside EHS he says that it’s something different and he enjoys it “I like being in the district I work at, I like seeing the girls outside of basketball practice and getting to talk to them.”
This is Coach Cecere’s first time coaching girls basketball after years of coaching boys. This drastic change has been going really well. “The change from coaching boys to girls has been going great, the parents and girls have been great and so far I’m very impressed,” Cecere said.
Junior Madison Ferrell has already noticed some changes for the team.
“During workouts, Coach Cecere takes it more seriously. He holds us very accountable unlike Coach Fugate which makes us more successful. The culture he’s trying to bring to us this year is different from last year,” Ferrell said
Ferrell, says she has always enjoyed basketball. “My love for basketball came from my dad. He loves basketball, he loves Kentucky and we would always go to games,” said Ferrell.
Since she’s a junior, she is used to Coach Fugate. She says that switching from Coach Fugate to Coach Cecere has been going well so far.
“I like the way he coaches. He’s very encouraging and takes time to work with you one-on-one if you need it” said Ferrell. Even with all the adjustments that will definitely take time to get used to, Coach Cecere never fails to make basketball fun. “I’ve enjoyed it more actually, he makes it much more fun,” said Ferrell.
During the summer, the team played in summer leagues and went to team camps. He thinks they have been very successful but doing good skill-wise isn’t what has mattered the most to him.
“Success for me has been figuring it all out,” Cecere said.
