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Sam Brooks & Cookeville High School Head Basketball Coach

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Sam Brooks sits down with Josh Heard, Head Basketball Coach at Cookeville High School. They discuss his early life growing up in Georgia, his family and the importance of having support from family while coaching, his experience coaching his boys in middle school, and learning how to separate the role of father from coaching, as well as how he would rate his first year as a coach at Cookeville High School.

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