Shaw resigns as Derby girls’ basketball coach

By Jeremy Shapiro

After 32 years of practices and games, teaching and learning, last-second wins and devastating losses, Bill Shaw needs a break from coaching.

Between football, basketball and baseball, there isn’t a month on the calendar when Shaw isn’t coaching. To get a break between football and baseball, Shaw has decided to give up coaching the Derby High School girls’ basketball team.

In February, Shaw told Derby Athletic Director Steve Shook he was resigning as basketball coach at season’s end. That turned out to be Feb. 29 when Derby lost a heart wrenching double overtime substate final to Dodge City. Shaw told his players that evening he was done coaching basketball.

“My wife and I decided it was time for me to take a break from coaching,” Shaw said. “This is an opportunity to spend more time with my family.”

For complete story, please see the April 2, 2008 issue
of The Derby Informer