It's been nineteen years since Tammy Metcalf took Northfield to the finals of the state basketball tournament, fourteen years since her first season as a basketball coach. It's been fifteen years since she married Dave Filzen, nine years since the birth of the first of their five children. Time moves quickly. Sports and kids move faster. The Carls tied the school record for conference victories, doubling their total from 1996-97, and celebrated their most successful season in over nine years.
Tammy is one of the most amazing people.
The duality between personal and professional lives that Metcalf-Filzen's players praise is perhaps best illustrated at any home basketball game. During games they sit just behind or on the end of the bench, usually with their father. The kids just embrace it and have fun with it. If Zachary needed any further examples of strong women athletes, he could look to his mother. Metcalf's basketball experience began in 1974 when, as an eighth grader, she joined the varsity squad at Northfield High.