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Caleb Suggs

Hartselle Enquirer

There are many milestones for any coach in any sport to achieve, and Danville varsity girls basketball coach Paul Wilson achieved an important one when he notched his 200th win as varsity head coach.

A graduate of Danville High School, Wilson made several stops before he became the head coach at Danville including Southern Academy and Falkville. Wilson returned to Danville in 1994 and has helped coach multiple sports aside from basketball including golf, volleyball and football. Wilson would eventually become the varsity girl’s head coach in 2006. Wilson has been at Danville for more than 20 years and couldn’t see himself coaching anywhere else. “When you are younger, you always imagine yourself coaching in college or the pros and at big places like Alabama and Auburn,” Wilson said “but when you get older, you begin to appreciate the little things.” Wilson would continue, “Danville is just a great community with a lot of great people. I don’t have problems with players not giving it there all and I don’t have problems with parents complaining because their kids don’t play enough.”

Wilson’s system at Danville has apparently paid off as he notched his 200th win for the Hawks last week. “It is nice to reach an accomplishment like this one,” Wilson said “but really it didn’t make that big of a deal, the girls didn’t even know it when they won the game.”

The 200th win is just more icing on the cake that Wilson considers a great coaching career. “If I stopped coaching after this season I would be perfectly contempt with all that I have done in my career,” Wilson said. “I would love for these girls to get the chance to get to Birmingham just to be able to feel that experience.”

However, Wilson isn’t done coaching yet and plans to continue. His goals are simple, he just wants his players to come in each day and give it everything they have. “We used to set goals like win the area tournament and so on for each season,” Wilson said “but then when you make it as far as the state finals without you can’t look at your season as a disappointment just because you didn’t win the area tournament.” Wilson would continue, “So we decided to set goals such as give 100% all the time and that is how we have gone about everything we do.”