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Boatright more than just about winning titles

• Published October 31, 2009

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There’s something special happening on Anna Boatright’s girls soccer team at Capital High School.

Besides winning a Western Cascade Conference championship, and besides giving up only one goal in six league matches, shutting out five league opponents, Boatright is also teaching her team something about citizenship.

Earlier this month, Boatright and her team brought donated items to a women’s center in Olympia. Boatright said it was a way to help the less fortunate.

Now, that’s a message coaches sometimes miss in that quest to win a league championship. Boatright, in her first year back as the Cougars coach, is doing a great job of doing both. Of teaching her team how to be winners on and off the field.

So, when the season is over, when Capital plays its last playoff game, her team will have a season full of great memories, great accomplishments, finishing 12-4 overall and 6-0 in conference. And they’ll also have a message their coach taught them about sharing. After all, teamwork doesn’t apply only to sports.