Timberline head coach Tom Blanchard had a hunch Alex Williams would be a special player back in 2007 when he named Williams – then just a sophomore – a team captain.
He knew for sure Williams was a special player late in that same campaign.
At halftime of a league semifinal game against Boise, Timberline trailed, 4-0.
“So I took the guys off the field and around a building where nobody could see us, and I had what I like to call ‘a little chat’ with the guys,” Blanchard said. “And during that chat, I called out individual players, and one of them was Alex Williams. I said, ‘It’s time for you to start playing to your potential – you need to show up.’”
By James Joseph