{"id":1155,"date":"2014-03-26T20:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2014-03-26T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:04:39","slug":"sk-coach-dustin-booth-determined-to-give-back-to-community-as-community-has-given-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"SK coach Dustin Booth determined to give back to community as community has given to him"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Terry<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

Dustin Booth has a college degree, works in the IT department at South Kitsap and is one of those rare people who coaches three sports\u2013 golf, wrestling, football\u00a0 \u2011 all of them at SK.<\/p>\n

But if it wasn\u2019t for his mother, Patty Booth, none of the above might have happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can attribute my work ethic and everything I have to my mom,\u201d says Booth. \u201cShe is an unbelievable lady. She has done everything for my brother (Jacob) and myself by her self.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patty was pregnant with Jacob (her sons were born 15 months apart) when she split from her husband, who has not been involved with the two boys (\u201cI really don\u2019t know him,\u201d says Dustin). But that did not stop Patty from going the extra thousand miles or so to insure the boys would be involved in their community through sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never missed a practice or a game,\u201d says Patty of the two boys\u2019 activities, even if that meant traveling miles between games on the same day to make sure she was there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 14 I had a Babe Ruth All-Star Tournament in Mount Vernon,\u201d says Dustin.\u00a0 \u201cMy brother had a 13-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star Tournament in Wenatchee. I played Saturday morning and she watched that. Then she drove over to watch my brother play in his game that day. She came back the following morning for a 12 o\u2019clock championship game we had and then I drove with her back to Wenatchee to watch my brother\u2019s team play their championship game Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how she did it,\u201d Dustin adds of his mom, who works as maintenance foreman at a Port Orchard apartment complex. \u201cMy goal when I was in high school was to go pro in something just so I could help her, because she deserves it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patty says it was not that tough, although many single parents would probably not agree with that. She did have the backing of her family, the Hoskins. She had six older brothers (all now deceased) and one older sister who helped her.<\/p>\n

Dustin was the closest to his uncles Vern and Ken. They were in the roofing business together and Ken later raised thoroughbred horses to race. \u00a0It was his uncles who got Dustin into golf, which he thought would be the sport that would earn him enough money to help out his mother. He is now a four-handicap golfer, which is not good enough to make the PBA Tour, as he once hoped, but helps him teach as co-head golf coach at SK.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember when I was about 10 or 11 I caddied for my uncle Vern in a tournament at GoldMountain,\u201d says Booth. \u201cVern was probably in his 50s, and I was just hooked on golf about that time. I played a lot of golf, just hacking around the yard with clubs. My uncle Ken lived on some property over on Sidney near Alberstons (in Port Orchard) and I would hit buckets of balls out into the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a young lad, Booth, now 33, would often leave school for his aunts and uncles homes because his mother was then working the graveyard shift at ManchesterElementary School. \u00a0So there were accommodations that had to be made as the son of a single parent<\/p>\n

But Booth played all the sports as a young boy, spurred on by his mother who was an active participant. \u00a0He played football, basketball, baseball and wrestled at Cedar Heights Junior High.\u00a0 When he hit high school he dropped wrestling and basketball.<\/p>\n

\u201cDustin was in everything,\u201d says Patty. \u201cAnd I wanted that, because he got what he didn\u2019t have for not having a father. Other coaches became his father figures. And he loved it. He would have a fit if we were going to be late. He always had to be on time. He\u2019s still that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was not tough for me. I had a blast with my kids. I enjoyed everything. We started playing ball when they were three and four years old. We played catch. If they didn\u2019t throw it to me where I could catch it, they had to chase after it. They would get tired chasing it so they learned to throw it the right way so I could catch it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played catch every night in the yard. I\u2019d hold up my glove and if they hit it without me moving it, they got a point. That was the game. It was an accuracy game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patty also hit ground balls to her sons. She would hit them as hard and as fast as she could. She even remembers one day she hit the ball so hard it flew instead of bounced along the ground. The neighbor\u2019s window caught it. She got it fixed.<\/p>\n

Being as active in sports as he and his brother were meant money was sometimes tight. One of his assistant peewee football coaches paid the fees for him and his brother a couple years.<\/p>\n

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\"Dustin<\/a><\/p>\n

DUSTIN BOOTH<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When Booth was a junior at SK he worked cutting nails out of horseshoes for a neighbor, who would then sell the horseshoes at the Farmer\u2019s market. Booth made enough to pay for the lettermen\u2019s jacket he so much wanted. When it came time to pay for the jacket he was told it was already paid for.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this day I don\u2019t know who paid for it,\u201d says Booth \u201cMy mom had no idea, I have no idea, but I know I had a $450 lettermen\u2019s jacket and somebody with a gracious heart paid for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A quarterback, Booth showed up as a sophomore for his first football practice at SK and got in the quarterback line. Coach Ed Fisher asked, \u201cWho are you?\u201d He answered and then was asked, \u201cWhere were you two weeks ago during quarterback camp?\u201d<\/p>\n

Booth said he was at a driver\u2019s Ed course the high school then had in the morning, the same time as the QB camp. \u00a0Fisher didn\u2019t accept that as an excuse and said, \u201cYou can\u2019t be a quarterback this year, go over to the receiver\u2019s line.\u201d<\/p>\n

So that is how Booth became a two-time All-Narrows League first team receiver (junior and senior year), all-state receiver his senior year (1998) and played in the East-West All-State game (his roommate was Marcus Trufant).<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t very fast, but I could catch the ball and run good routes,\u201d says Booth.<\/p>\n

Booth played outfield in baseball for the late coach Elton Goodwin at SK. He hit .428 with a home run and six doubles his senior season. He had never hit a home run over a fence in 13 years of playing baseball until the last game of the regular season his senior year. The Wolves were playing at Foss and he connected with a pitch. Thinking he had a double, Booth slid into second only to see the base umpire signaling a home run.<\/p>\n

\u201cI jumped up and was just bawling,\u201d says Booth. \u201cI get to third base and coach Goodwin is there and he gives me a big hug and says, \u2018I love you Boother.\u2019 That\u2019s the nickname he had for me. He was crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Booth played his freshman year at Central Washington on a partial football scholarship. He played that year with a bum shoulder that he injured his senior year at SK and went through spring football in 2000 while coming off shoulder surgery. But that was as far as he went. He didn\u2019t get along with his position coach and after a dispute over weight lifting he decided that summer not to return and just concentrate on his studies.<\/p>\n

So now Booth has come full circle. He is a young father of twins with wife Schayna, works his regular job at the school and coaches three sports there. So he has his hands full, but it\u2019s never been other than that since he was very young.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are a handful,\u201d says Booth of his twins (Jesse and Jenna, 4), \u201cbut I want to do everything for them because my mother had to play both roles (father and mother). I didn\u2019t have a father figure in my life, but my kids are going to not have one.\u2019<\/p>\n

Patty adds, \u201cHe just turned out to be a wonderful father, a wonderful husband, and a wonderful son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no way I could repay my mom for what she has done and given me and my brother over the last 33 years,\u201d says Booth. \u201cWhat she did kept me busy and kept me goal orientated. I wanted to play sports so I had to keep my grades up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is so much structure and accountability put on you as a student athlete. Football was my first high school sport and just all the little things that they (the coaches) instill in you help you to be a better person. I attribute a lot of that to coach Fisher, coach (D.J.) Sigurdson and coach Goodwin. They made me a better person.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now he is determined through his coaching to do the same for others. Its payback time, time to give back to the school program and the community as others did for him.<\/p>\n

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