He can't solve the worksheet his kindergarten teacher sent home. Ramona gives him a break and allows him outside to play if he promises to finish the work later. I've been to places where I'm the only one with small children. Family is big at Kent State, though, and I don't feel like an outsider because I have children. Everyone is amazingly supportive.
Most basketball coaches devote their lives to their sport and their team.
The pressure and need to win is too great to do otherwise. After growing up outside of Kalamazoo, Mich., as the daughter of a high school basketball coach, Ramona Heath thought she was finally done with basketball when she arrived at Eastern Michigan. I don't know. Every year by March it has been a long season. Most of the coaches' wives are just looking at each other.