MICHIGAN CITY -- As Scott Chemma was involved in the interview process for the Morgan Township boys basketball coaching job last summer, Victory Christian assistant Todd Thomae, whose son Lincoln plays for the Lions & Chemma's Indiamãng cầu trò chơi AAU program, raised a simple question.
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"Why not here?" Thomae asked him.
After Chemma didn't get the hire at Morgan, the Chesterton High School và Purdue University graduate probably asked himself the same thing.
"I wasn't thinking anything of it," he said.
With former coach Dan Schmidt stepping bachồng after the graduation of his son, Tyler, who is now at Olivet Nazarene, the position was open, so Chemma applied và was hired as associate head coach.
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"Todd is the head coach, it's kind of a formality going inlớn a new school," Chemma said. "I coach practices, games, vày all the game planning. I'm very fortunate, being 25. There was a transition of an AD, so it was kind of a slow process,
Indiana trò chơi AAU program Director Scott
Chemma is also coaching Victory Christian
Academy this season.
but Todd got me in & we went from there. It's a great opportunity. Lincoln và Flynn (Carlson), both played for us, Caleb Harrell, too. I got khổng lồ know them really well. I got to lớn know (the rest of) them over the summer và fall. It's been great. They're great kids. They're very respectful. They play hard. They give you their all. That's all you can ask for as a coach."
The younger Thomae, a junior guard who scored 24 points Tuesday in a loss to Marquette, was all on board with the hire.
"It's really nice," he said. "He's really energetic at practices. He's thinking about them throughout the whole day, he comes inlớn practice with a whole game plan. He loves basketball. He's a real basketball guy. He knows what he's talking about."
An accountant with Cleveland-Cliffs in addition to lớn his AAU duties, Chemma has already gained credibility in coaching circles as someone who's in it lớn develop complete players & student-athletes, not put to lớn pile up points and wins.
"Scott's doing a great job," Marquette coach Ray Tarnow said. "He's a good guy. A lot of times, (AAU) will reinforce bad things you have sầu lớn try to break, but he doesn't bởi that. He coaches basketball the right way, as you can tell by his teams defensively. He does that in AAU, too."
In these volatile times, Chemma doesn't look lớn far ahead, but he's happy to have gotten the chance.
"It's my goal lớn be a head coach," he said. "We'll see how long I'm here. Hopefully they keep me around."
The Valparaiso school is not a member of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, but has gone to great lengths to strengthen its schedule with the likes of 21st Century, Bowman Academy, Hammond, Culver Academy & Calumet all on the slate. It turned some heads with a 65-61 win over 21 on Nov. 23. VCA (4-2) then didn't play for 17 days, returning last week from a quarantine that sidelined the program.
"It was weird going through the start of the season, then it stops, and we've sầu got lớn get bachồng inlớn it," Thomae said. "We get overlooked a lot. Every chance we get to lớn prove sầu something, we try to lớn."