Colin W. is OKG - Our Kind of Guy

This week Colin W. made the Halligans Pub half-court shot which earns him a free milkshake. He was also named the player of the game for his summer league team this week, earning him a free slice of pizza at Oreland Pizza. He was ‘outstanding’ in his game and filled up the box score with rebounds, points and assists. Even better, he’s the kind of team player with whom others would want to play.

Colin is a great story. We’ve known him since his days in little league baseball. He struggled with the game.

Things don’t come easy to Colin as they do for his older brother Nate, who runs like a gazelle and shoots like Robert Horry. In fact, Colin didn’t make any of our three 6th grade AAU teams this spring, and yet he attended all 30 team workouts as a ‘practice player.’

Colin is a great listener and is highly coachable. He listens intently. He wants to be coached and takes the lessons and drills home with him.

“He shoots and works on his moves every day,” his parents proudly shared.

We love coaching Colin. At Next Play, he is what we call OKG - “our kind of guy.”

There’s no doubt that he’s Joe Halligan’s kind of guy as well and I hope he enjoys his free milkshake at Halligans.

He deserves it!