[24 Warrior4life]

Congrats to the Lady Warriors on a great season! I am as disappointed as everyone else that our girl's season ended in the semi-finals against Mercer. Our goal was to go to Bowling Green and we fell short. I am sure nobody is more disappointed than Coach Butcher. To slam him in his first season when he had to change a lot of stuff is crazy. He had to get players to sacrifice how they were use to playing to balance this team. He changed them from a zone to man/man team. I think sometimes we confuse confident with cocky. I know from talking with my daughter about it that he works extremely hard to install a lot of confidence in his players. He was the first one to take responsibility in the media for the loss to Mercer. I have a lot of respect for a coach that is accountable and takes responsibility for his/her team. I don't know Coach Butcher's history with his other teams but to say "this will be the end here" is hard for me to believe. This team ended the season 24-7 (statistically the best season in Lady Warrior history as Coach Rice had a 24-8 team back in 2010/11) and Coach Butcher didn't run from anyone with an easy schedule either as he added Mercy and George Rogers Clark (10 region champions) to the schedule at the end when Boyle County avoided making up a snow game with us. I can tell you he is very involved with building a program, not just a good team. I coach in our community's Pulaski girl's youth league and also in AAU and I can tell you he is very visable there at games pushing to build our younger girls and to create an ongoing program like you see at other successful schools. Its hard to say in one year he has underachieved with all the activity he has put into this already. Thanks to Coach Butcher, Waters, Gomez, and Toohill on a great season! Hope we continue to move forward and get over that regional hump next year...