Word: wootten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman coming out of Thomas Wootten High School in Potomac Md., Morrison realized that he wouldn't play over guard Keith Webster, so he decided not to play basketball for the next two years...
Enlisting such stars is an important part of the antidrug crusade. But the war against drugs in sports must be fought day to day in the nation's high schools. It will take more coaches like Morgan Wootten, who has worked for 30 years at DeMatha Catholic High School, a small boys' school in Maryland. His basketball teams have had 23 Washington-area conference championships, and in the past 26 years every senior on the squad has won an athletic scholarship to college. "I talk a lot with my players," says Wootten. "To stress to them that they...
...will take more players like Chris Fagan, a brawny high school basketball and football star who spent this summer at Wootten's training camp. "I've seen people out on the school grounds before class begins buying and using drugs," Fagan says of his Philadelphia high school. He is well aware of the pitfalls, the temptations, the pressures of being a young athlete. When approached, he has a ready response. "You politely tell them," he says, "to get the hell away from...