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Basketball always in Kieswetter‘s blood When you ask for directions to his house, he will tell you "it‘s the house with the basketball hoop at the bottom of the hill." The 37â€"yearâ€"old Waterioo native has been The 37â€"yearâ€"old Waterioo native has been very very good for Canadian basketball and rnpnedwmuenverypdb The two have enjoyed a lasting relationship, and The St. Jeromes high school coach was rewarded this past season when he guided his senior Lions to the Ontario high school championship, the first ever in Lions‘ histoâ€" ry. He became enthralled with the game as a youth, and while most kids were dreaming of becoming the next Gordie Howe, Kieswetter was off practicing his jump shot, dreaming he might become the next Bob Cousy. "I was obsessed with basketball," Kieswetâ€" ter recalled, "I was a basketball junky to the point I had to play every day." _ ____ _ His first big season involved Saturday mornings at the St. Louis gym, where he was a member of a CYO team. The first taste of cmpeflflmthatmwasminstthe&. Jerome‘s midget team, and the result wasn‘t pretty, a 55â€"5 loss. *"T‘ll never forget that. I came home, and my Dad asked me, who did you play and what was the score? After I told him 55â€"5, he must have laughed for a week." _ 2 enthusiasm for the game. He went on to star at St. Jerome‘s, where in 1968 he led Lions to the cliy championship, which was the last city guard, was at University of Waterioo. There, he played five years of varsity basketball, which included a couple of winless trips at the Canadian National team . It was an experience he said ranks high on his list of memorable exâ€" That year the Canadian team played in tournaments in Mexico and Italy before participating in the preâ€"Olympic tournament inGermany.lnor@ertoqqalifytorthe"n finish either first or second. "We didn‘t do all that well. We had a very small team, our centre was only 6‘ 8", which internationally is kind of puny. _ _ _ **We got beat up inside fairly well. That was also Jack Donohue‘s first year, and after that misi’.'iemmes had won until this ason. The next stop for the sharp shooting point the Canadian team had to the team was rebuilt and did quite well in the 1976 Olympics." After his university career, Kieswetter played senior basketball for London South, Guelph Oaks, Toronto Estonia and the Kâ€"W Titans. While attending UW, one of the courses Kieswetter was taking enabled him to coach junior basketball at St. Jeromes. He then took his first teaching job in Brantford and his interest for the game changed from playing to starting point for most peaple is enjoying the game and playing the game. When you get older, in order to play the same calibre you need to put in more time, but as you get older you have less time to putâ€"into it. "I‘ve always liked teaching. And coaching is an ideal teaching situation, because unlike in classrooms where you inevitably find people who don‘t want to be there, when you coach you usually find players who want to be there. It‘s a more attentive audience and much more receptive, so it‘s an ideal teaching situation." Kieswetter could be descibed as an analytiâ€" cal person. He learns by his experiences, and as a result he believes that a coach should pick and choose things from other coaches â€" but never try to copy an exact style. When asked who were some of his coaching mentors, he said they included many, two of which are Canadian national coach Donohue and UW‘s Don McCrae. ‘"Don McCrae, who I think is probably the finest tactician in Canada, knows the game of basketball. Jack Donohue‘s strength is workâ€" ing with players. On a personal communicaâ€" tive level, you just can‘t beat him." He finds it important for a coach to show an interest in his players, not just as an athlete but as a person. His own personal philosophies include teaching his players an understanding for the game, to put the game in perspective, and also to teach commitment perseverance, and teammanship. ‘‘There‘s the discipline aspect, doing what you should do as opposed to do what you want to do. It comes down to discipline. One of my goals is to try to teach discipline and selfâ€"discipline through the team aspect. This championship year marked the 10th season for Kieswetter coaching at St. Jeromes, and he wants to keep on coaching. After all, what would basketball and Tom Kieswetter do without each other? "I always remember Jack Donohue telling us to use basketball. 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