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Coach at loss over wins

February 14, 2008

Part of his childhood was spent without electricity or running water, and his family traveled to town each week by horse and buggy. In fact, the first time Leroy Troyer rode in a car he got sick; he wasn't used to the speed. He grew up Amish in Wilmot, Ohio. There was no television, or time for sports.

He figures he didn't shoot a basket until he was 10, and he certainly never dreamed he would one day become a coach. His family moved to Sarasota when he was about 11. One day, he came home from school and saw a white Dodge van with a blue stripe on the side parked in the driveway.

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