Another challenge for Johnson has been the adjustment from coaching girls, which Johnson has done in the past, to heading up the boys team. There are different issues and challenges, and they tend to have different relationships with me as a coach. I think boys have an easier time at the start, picking up a racket and just knowing how to swing. But when you give a girl advice, she's listening. She'll ask questions.
Pride is a bigger thing with the boys.
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