Scoop

by Scott Tappa

Ted Waters plays first base for the Riverside High School baseball team. An aspiring sports writer, Ted is slick with the glove, and equally slick with words. He pays close attention to the mental side of sports, sometimes to his own detriment. After a strong start, Ted’s senior season has hit a rough patch, and he and the Flames are running out of time to turn things around. With several formidable opponents standing between his team and the state tournament, can Ted find a successful balance between effectively using information and thinking too much?

168 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2020

About the author

Scott Tappa is a youth football, basketball, and baseball coach in Iola, Wis. Scott is the author of First-Time Coach: Youth Football, 114 Youth Football Plays, Read Option Offense for Youth Football, 105 Youth Football Drills, 129 Football Trick Plays, High School Basketball Analytics, Create Your Own Basketball Playbook, Create Your Own Football Playbook, and children's sports fiction books No Quit, Scoop and The Kid Who Called the Plays. In addition to serving as coach, he was president of Iola-Scandinavia Pee Wee Athletics and the Mid-State Youth Football & Cheerleading Conference. After beginning his career as a newspaper sports editor, he worked in a variety of magazine, book, and online capacities before landing at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he worked in a marketing, communications, and events position, and founded the Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference. He is now a business education teacher at Iola-Scandinavia (Wis.) High School, coaching middle school football, JV boys basketball, and serving as advisor for the school's yearbook and DECA student organization. Scott is married to Jana and father of Will and Charlie. Follow Scott on Instagram at @coachtappa, Twitter at @scotttappa and YouTube at youtube.com/channel/UC_TA-nXwS1tDKudJ....