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More Than A Coach: Joe Lombard's Journey Through Faith, Joy And Heartbreak To a
Record 19 State Championships And 1,379 Wins
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Driving on West Texas roads leaves a man time to think, time to pray, time to ponder, time to plan,
time to envision, time to listen. At first, it was a tug, but by the spring of 1978, after 2 1/2 years as
a salesman for Cleveland Athletics, it was more than that. It was a calling. By then, he never felt
so sure, so directed of anything in his 25-year-old life.Joe Lombard wanted to coach basketball.
With jobs scarce, there was one opening that intrigued him. It was for a head girls coach at tiny
Nazareth. He had never even seen a women's basketball game until he got to college, but he
nervously and excitedly applied.'Are you sure you want to coach girls?' asked his father.Over the
next 42 years, Lombard would carve out a career that would make him perhaps the greatest high
school girls basketball coach in history. It was, a career that would earn him induction into the
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. HIs teams won 19 state championships and a remarkable 91
percent of their games for a 1,370-133 record that ended in 2020.In More Than A Coach, not only
is his life that began in basketball-crazed Indiana in the 1950s chronicled, but Lombard also
shares coaching advice, insight, philosophy, his Christian faith, and ranks everything from best
teams to toughest losses, from top comebacks and buzzer-beaters to best rivalries in a coaching
career that will likely never be equaled. em em
Driving on West Texas roads leaves a man time to think, time to pray, time to ponder, time to plan,
time to envision, time to listen. At first, it was a tug, but by the spring of 1978, after 2 1/2 years as
a salesman for Cleveland Athletics, it was more than that. It was a calling. By then, he never felt
so sure, so directed of anything in his 25-year-old life.Joe Lombard wanted to coach basketball.
With jobs scarce, there was one opening that intrigued him. It was for a head girls coach at tiny
Nazareth. He had never even seen a women's basketball game until he got to college, but he
nervously and excitedly applied.'Are you sure you want to coach girls?' asked his father.Over the
next 42 years, Lombard would carve out a career that would make him perhaps the greatest high
school girls basketball coach in history. It was, a career that would earn him induction into the
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. HIs teams won 19 state championships and a remarkable 91
percent of their games for a 1,370-133 record that ended in 2020.In More Than A Coach, not only
is his life that began in basketball-crazed Indiana in the 1950s chronicled, but Lombard also
shares coaching advice, insight, philosophy, his Christian faith, and ranks everything from best
teams to toughest losses, from top comebacks and buzzer-beaters to best rivalries in a coaching
career that will likely never be equaled. em em