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There’s no crying in baseball, we were famously told by Jimmy Dugan, Tom Hanks’ crusty character in A League of Their Own. Basketball is a different sport, and this is a different story.
Now, Julie Goodenough doesn’t cry easily. In fact, in the four years and 103 games in which she has been the head coach of the Abilene Christian University’s women’s basketball team, I’ve only seen her misty-eyed three times.
The first was in her third game on the job. It was in Canyon on Nov. 28, 2012. West Texas A&M University, ACU’s heated (and, to some, hated) rival in the Lone Star Conference, paused before the introduction of the starting lineups for a moment of silence to honor the memory of 10-year-old Rex Fleming, who had died three days before following a two-year battle with brain cancer. As she stood alongside her team, Goodenough wept quietly for the son of her colleague, ACU associate director of athletics for media relations Lance Fleming (’92).
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