Many coaches would say they've reached a milestone, 100,200,300 wins because they've been around for awhile. Reaching this milestone, however, means you've not only been around for awhile but you've also been a pretty darn good coach.
500 wins is a number that few have reached but Griswold's Gary Kinel is on brink of becoming one of the elite few to accomplish it. The Griswold coach needs just five wins to become only the ninth coach in state history to reach that level in boys basketball.
Kinel, like fellow 500 game winner Tony Falzarano of Putnam, is a veteran of the Quinebaug Valley Conference which saw many a spirited battle in it's time. He, like Falzarano, have experienced the growth of the area which has seen the small school battles become larger school battles in the Eastern Connecticut Conference.
But he has kept his focus, he didn't want this chase to a milestone of his own to dwarf the accomplishments of his players this season and didn't even want to talk about it. So, we let his players and a fellow coach do the talking for him, check out today's edition of the Norwich Bulletin to see what I mean.