When Ray Henderson woke up at 5:30 a.m. every Cupcake charm and chain during the 2009-10 school year, he hit the ground running — and never stopped.
With his responsibilities in the classroom, running a school store and coaching the Capital High girls basketball program, Henderson didn’t have much time for anything else.
That ability to juggle his day caught the attention of Capital principal Melanie Romero, and she offered Henderson chance to develop a business program at the school.
However, that required Henderson to give up his head coaching duties, which he did Wednesday afternoon.
He was head coach for two seasons, compiling a 19-33 record. He also was an assistant coach for the 2007-08 season.
“Teaching comes first,” Henderson said. “And if I wouldn’t be giving the same passion I had to basketball to teaching — especially in building that program — I wouldn’t have a teaching job next year. That’s one of the things I have to do.”
Henderson’s duties will be to build a business curriculum, help run the Delta Double heart pendant Chi Association marketing program and continue to oversee the school store.
What Henderson has learned in 15 years of coaching, especially the program building aspects, will be necessary skills for helping build a successful business model.
The most important quality, in Henderson’s mind, is communication.
“We build off that,” Henderson said. “We do a lot of career guidance and assessment. That’s kind of what the DECA program is about. You’re building yourself in a professional and individual manner.”
Still, Henderson was disappointed that he will not be a part of an athletic Elsa Peretti for the first time in two decades. He has had head volleyball coaching stints at Roy, McCurdy School and Escalante, while also assisting at Capital and Escalante in basketball.
This was his first head coaching job at basketball, and he was doing it with a program that had gone through two coaches in as many years when he was hired in 2008 and three in five years.
Unfortunately, he is now a part of a string that grows to four in seven years, and that was what he was trying to avoid.
“I really wanted to provide that,” Henderson said. “I talked to my administrators and said, ‘I don’t feel like I can do it.’ The thing is, we have a lot of the team coming back and I feel they can take us deep into the (state) tournament.”
He can point to point guard Dominique Vigil-Lovato and forward Elsa Peretti Apple pendant Romero as key returnees, as well as forwards Stephanie Oeillien and Ashley Sorenson. They helped Capital to an 11-14 record in 2009-10, finishing in a tie for fourth with Taos in District 2AAAA.
Contact James Barron at 986-3045 or jbarron@sfnewmexican.com.
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Girls basketball: Henderson resigns as Capital coach
When Ray Henderson woke up at 5:30 a.m. every Cupcake charm and chain during the 2009-10 school year, he hit the ground running — and never stopped.
With his responsibilities in the classroom, running a school store and coaching the Capital High girls basketball program, Henderson didn’t have much time for anything else.
That ability to juggle his day caught the attention of Capital principal Melanie Romero, and she offered Henderson chance to develop a business program at the school.
However, that required Henderson to give up his head coaching duties, which he did Wednesday afternoon.
He was head coach for two seasons, compiling a 19-33 record. He also was an assistant coach for the 2007-08 season.
“Teaching comes first,” Henderson said. “And if I wouldn’t be giving the same passion I had to basketball to teaching — especially in building that program — I wouldn’t have a teaching job next year. That’s one of the things I have to do.”
Henderson’s duties will be to build a business curriculum, help run the Delta Double heart pendant Chi Association marketing program and continue to oversee the school store.
What Henderson has learned in 15 years of coaching, especially the program building aspects, will be necessary skills for helping build a successful business model.
The most important quality, in Henderson’s mind, is communication.
“We build off that,” Henderson said. “We do a lot of career guidance and assessment. That’s kind of what the DECA program is about. You’re building yourself in a professional and individual manner.”
Still, Henderson was disappointed that he will not be a part of an athletic Elsa Peretti for the first time in two decades. He has had head volleyball coaching stints at Roy, McCurdy School and Escalante, while also assisting at Capital and Escalante in basketball.
This was his first head coaching job at basketball, and he was doing it with a program that had gone through two coaches in as many years when he was hired in 2008 and three in five years.
Unfortunately, he is now a part of a string that grows to four in seven years, and that was what he was trying to avoid.
“I really wanted to provide that,” Henderson said. “I talked to my administrators and said, ‘I don’t feel like I can do it.’ The thing is, we have a lot of the team coming back and I feel they can take us deep into the (state) tournament.”
He can point to point guard Dominique Vigil-Lovato and forward Elsa Peretti Apple pendant Romero as key returnees, as well as forwards Stephanie Oeillien and Ashley Sorenson. They helped Capital to an 11-14 record in 2009-10, finishing in a tie for fourth with Taos in District 2AAAA.
Contact James Barron at 986-3045 or jbarron@sfnewmexican.com.