{"id":73572,"date":"2016-08-15T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-storm-host-shooting-clinic\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T23:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:38:31","slug":"montezuma-storm-host-shooting-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-storm-host-shooting-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma Storm host shooting clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Tom Maraumoto works with local kids during a basketball clinic at Montezuma-Cortez High School.<\/span>Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Tom Marumoto wasn\u2019t sure how he ended up at Montezuma-Cortez High School last week.<\/p>\n

But there he was, standing at center court, addressing a group of area kids that had come to learn how to improve their shooting stroke.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old Newport Beach, California resident has been involved in coaching for the last 61 years and has run his own basketball academy for the past 38. He estimated that he\u2019s put on over 100 clinics in the past 30 years, with most taking place in California or Hawaii.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019d never even been to Cortez, and he wasn\u2019t sure how anyone from Cortez had ever heard of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey called me out of the clear blue sky, don\u2019t ask me for a resume and say \u2018we want to hire you,\u2019\u201d Marumoto said incredulously. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how it started, but I have no idea how they picked me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd Plewe had actually heard of Marumoto years ago when he was growing up in California, and after speaking with local coaches and determining that shooting was one of the areas in which they hoped players to improve, he got the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

Plewe and The Montezuma Storm basketball club reached out to Marumoto and used the proceeds from their tournament to bring the shooting coach to Cortez. And for three days last week, the marksman worked with over 50 youths in grades 5-12 on the fundamentals of shooting.<\/p>\n

Marumoto stressed balance, form, follow-through and other minute details that go into performing a great jump shot. But he also spoke of life skills and the importance of characteristics on and off the court that make up what he called his formula for success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important value is dependability,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd then I go commitment, teamwork, hard work, determination, all that stuff, and that\u2019s number one. The other success formula is that they have to want to learn, so I always ask them, \u2018Why do you have two eyes and two ears and one mouth?\u2019 And the last one is the hardest: There is no substitution for hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marumoto said that his first coaching experience came as a volunteer at a basketball camp his freshman year of college, but that he\u2019s been hooked since, staying associated with coaching in some form for the last 61 years.<\/p>\n

He later pointed to his knee brace and listed off a handful of minor injuries that have slowed him over the years, before making it clear that he has no plans to stop coaching anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will always coach until my passion dwindles,\u201d he said. \u201cThe day that passion dwindles, I\u2019m gone, I\u2019ll quit. I\u2019m 79 and I really want to coach until I\u2019m 90. I don\u2019t know if I can, but I was up at five o\u2019clock preparing for this. I have a great passion for this and I\u2019m hoping it will rub off on the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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