{"id":115191,"date":"2019-03-20T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=115191"},"modified":"2019-03-20T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:59:10","slug":"adams-steps-down-as-vw-girls-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/03\/20\/adams-steps-down-as-vw-girls-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams steps down as VW girls&#8217; coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After eight seasons as an assistant coach and three more as head coach of the Van Wert Cougars girls\u2019 basketball team, head coach Rob Adams has stepped down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Rob-Adams-2018-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109789\"\/><figcaption><strong>Rob Adams<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The school board accepted his resignation during Wednesday night\u2019s meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVery tough decision, but necessary,\u201d Adams said. \u201cI was having a difficult time balancing family and work. I gave 11 years and it was time to concentrate on my business and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are adopting a baby in the coming months,\u201d Adams continued. \u201cChange was necessary. I wasn\u2019t ready to be done, but life was calling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to miss my team big time, and I wish nothing but the best for Van Wert girls\u2019 basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adams went 20-49 (5-20 WBL) after taking over shortly before the start of the 2016-2017 season. His 2018-2019 team went 6-17 (2-7 WBL) and advanced to the sectional finals before falling to No. 1 seed Napoleon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports After eight seasons as an assistant coach and three more as head coach of the Van Wert Cougars girls\u2019 basketball team, head coach Rob Adams has stepped down. The school board accepted his resignation during Wednesday night\u2019s meeting. \u201cVery tough decision, but necessary,\u201d Adams said. \u201cI was having a difficult time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 09:29:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}