🙏🏻Follower & Faith in JESUS☦️Husband-Dad😇Here2Help U along the path of Life🏀Head Coach Emporia State WBB🏀Former Associate Head Coach KSTATE & TCU💜Grateful
This is the VICTORY LEAP! 🏀(CATS improve to 11-1 over rival KU in the Coach Mittie era!)
PURPLE Jacket is now 11-1 in its career!
CAN we get some RETWEETS 💯please!
#EMAW
RACISM-Get that outta here!
Not at KSTATE!
Not in Manhappiness!
Not in the U.S.A. 🇺🇸
Not in the 🌍
Simply treat others with respect. Non-Christians you don’t have to like or agree JUST RESPECT! Christians we are called to LOVE EVERYONE!❤️
I am against racism & hate✅
🏀 can B frustrating & challenging when U R listed
#1
on the SCOUT report by opponents! You’re the best shooter or a top scorer! It’s TOUGH going & it’s supposed to be!They FACE 🖐🏻GUARD you & never leave you all game! YOU MUST EMBRACE IT✅
#muchRESPECT
#don
’tBACKdown
#FINDaWAY
Happy Birthday to my wife Julie. Blessed by her beauty both outside & inside! Blessed to kickoff her day with another vacation. *I think this makes 23 out of the past 26 years we have been on a vaca for her b-day 🔥
NOW at her happy place! Lake Norfork 💧
After 9 years in Manhappiness we call it a wrap! The 5th city in our 26 (nearly 27) years of marriage & it was the longest in any city (9 years!). We will mostly miss the special people & close friends we have made☑️
Onto the next phase of life
@LadyHornetWBB
🐝🐝🐝
THE JOURNEY-a fight vs. Myeloma Cancer✅
Nov. 6 dad moved in to transplant house in Rochester✅
Nov. 21 -received the stem cell transplant ✅
Today he is in remission or per his Dr. Report -no current cancer in his blood or in the bone marrow✅
#KEEPfighting
#GODisGOODallthetime
2night I started my 32nd season coaching college basketball 🏀 Great journey-Greater blessing!
It’s my 7th year at K-STATE (longest tenure of any of my 8 stops). The people on this journey are what make it so awesome! ✅20-21 (💜this team)is upon us let us enjoy the journey!🙏🏻👏🏻
Let’s go ahead & make that 5 as in FIVE STRAIGHT🏀 overall wins! + another ROAD W👍🏻(we finished Big12 play winning our last 5 road games👏🏻) GREAT job ladies 💯 OWNtheDAY!
#20WINseason
#11Big12W
’s!
#MORE
🏀ahead
I tell my kids (all 4)+many players coached-b4 EVERY game they are about to play to do 2 things!
PLAY HARD & HAVE FUN!
This is Enthusiasm-LOVE my son! PROUD for him as he does the BIG 2!
✅ALWAYS be a great teammate ✅ALWAYS have good body language
#MHS
🏀DOEShaveGREATculture
Then & Now! WOW 😲 23 years ago (1996) & it’s now 2019!
Time 🕰 flies when you are having a blast 💥Impacting lives on our journey together ✨✨
Faith 🙏🏻 Family 👨👩👦👦 &🏀
@JulieOsty
#BLESSED
And to get to see my wife coach with a KSTATE legend! Hey at least I get to watch my wife & daughter one day-one game-before the crazy fun of tomorrow begins!
I have spent 13 years of my coaching career in Missouri & I am now in my 11th year coaching in the state of Kansas! Perhaps some people don’t know there is a Kansas City, KS & a Kansas City, MO🤔The CHIEFS bring both states together and are truly a 🏈team for KANSAS & MISSOURI ✅
Last spring my dad was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma cancer-he underwent chemo for 4 + months & now is in line for a full stem cell (bone marrow) transplant!✅
He begins 40+ consecutive days in a transplant house- Please say a few prayers 🙏🏻they will be felt & appreciated.
Imagine NOT being able to hire Coach because he had done what most would consider nothing prior to KSTATE! Regardless WHO the next 🏈coach is-WE will have success BECAUSE of the PEOPLE! Coach Snyder taught us that!!! EMAW
#KSUFAMILY
Many Christians are afraid to step out & proclaim their faith.
@CoachJTang
is NOT! He KNOWS Christ & has a special relationship with him.☝️all Christians should be striving for each day! I am working each day to go 1-0 for & with Christ☑️Thank you Coach
@CoachJTang
for leading!
Coach Tang's opening statement post-Elite Eight loss to FAU:
"If we can't be grateful in these times, then all the love and joy we talk about is fraud — and we're not frauds."
#KStateMBB
19 years ago Chris Beard was the head coach at
@FortScottCC
. Now he has Texas Tech into the Final Four for the first time in school history. Four years ago he was coaching Division II basketball. Last year to the Elite Eight and now to the Final Four.
Congratulations to my daughter Allie Ostermann on making an All Star pool at the
@USJN
Great Plains Challenge last weekend.
Happy your hard work pays off🏀
Congrats to my daughter (Class of 2020) on scoring her first Varsity basket! (A “3” of course-IF only they had the 3-Point shot when I played-yes I am that old!)🏀🏀 BUT-she played a little D this weekend & that makes a coach happy!
A good bounce back W for the Lady Indians!✅
Started at Northwest Missouri State (didn’t give us our own business cards - just a Grad Assistant) so that would make 9 schools ☑️
So blessed for the mentors, colleagues, & close friends made along the way 👍🏻 SUPER pumped for the present & future with the Lady Hornets 🐝 🏆🐝🐝
Manhattan High🏀
BOTH teams ranked in the top 6 in state!
Son on one team✅
Daughter on the other✅
Daughter as a team manager✅
Wife as an assistant coach✅
#BASKETBALL
🏀FAMILY
Recruiting is a TEAM effort & so many things are involved! With that being said, I have 2 assistants that are “LEAD recruiters”. 2 of the best
@BriBogard
@TyrieThomas22
Give them a follow on many of the social media outlets. Perhaps☝️day they will lead you to
@LadyHornetWBB
I received this a few days ago.
WOW 😲 30 years in the 📚!
🏆 WINS-championships & NCAA’s are fun! YES! 👏🏻
The BEST is the relationships with the players-coached 300 men & women ballers!! Love hearing their stories & memories when I see them!✅ Year 31 begins soon🏀 YES👏🏻
Great article in yesterday’s Manhattan Mercury via the MHS Mentor. MUST read as it’s Great for all athletes!
Author is on point ✅
Please retweet 👍🏻
#proudDADclassof2020
A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.
Mom would have been 75 today! NOT a day goes by that I don’t think of her! We all miss her & LOVE her! Hard to believe it’s been 5 years!
Happy Birthday MOM🎉❤️ONE day we will see her again! (In HEAVEN-thank you JESUS)❤️
#FOReverREMEMBERED
#forEVERmissed
YES 🙌 we have 3-yep a total of THREE verbal 🏀commitments to date for our high school class of 2024!!!
(It’s awesome & we are still 👀 for more🐝🐝💥)
The NCAA doesn’t permit comments until they sign in November ☑️ so you all please wait 🤷
#StingersUP
#LoveUP
We lost a close friend on Friday. He was Robbie's frosh coach at Nolan Catholic-he coached our twin girls for 2 years-Texas Elite
@lawrenck2001
@PBRhoops
🙏🏻
He will be missed (funeral Friday/Saturday). This poem written by
@AloeraLynn
in 10th grade was in his room.
#IMPACT
Those that were blessed to meet & know coach have great pictures & stories! This is my favorite pic- less than 3 years ago (glad my boys were able to meet him)!
My story is some 18-20 years ago visiting KSTATE sitting in “Cat Town” talking to coach & drawing ✍️ 🏀on a napkin!
The FINAL summer 🏀game ever for our girl Allie. A solid outing (3-7 from 3 / 2-4 & 1-2 for a quiet 14 pts + 5 boards).
Next up- some rest 😴 then a week at the lake for some FAMILY time!
2night I was able to listen from WVA-to the end of the Lady Indians Double OT Win! (Thanks KMAN live stream)🏀 Proud of Allie 🏀6-6 from the line! 2 with 21 seconds left in OT (to put us up 3-0f course they hit a 3 with 4 seconds) & 2 with 2 seconds to ICE it in the 2nd OT! 💯🏀
What a gift in my mailbox from
@gabbygregory12
Absolute joy to coach her! Quite a fun W over top 5 ranked Iowa☑️
23-24 Gonna be fun to watch this team
@KStateWBB
from afar 🏀
@Yokie50
is back☑️
I have tried in practice (on occasion 😄) to STOP this girl! To NO avail! (🤔most have struggled💯)! Congrats to a special & talented young lady ✅
#MOREpointsAHEAD
I begin my 35th year in coaching, as a Head Coach again! I am so grateful for the opportunity to lead!!
Started m my career in the MIAA conference! The BEST Division II league in America ☑️
🐝NOW WE GO AGAIN 🐝