From the Editor

Basketball family

Wed, 04/27/2016 - 3:45pm

The basketball bug really hit me back in 1970 when I watched the Seahawk varsity boys basketball team, under the tutelage of Walt Gorneau, play its games. On the team were a pair of twins, Richard and Ronnie Hyson. As longtime Seahawks basketball fans know, the Hyson twins loved to shoot from the outside — long before the three-point arch came into being.

As I moved into high school, and the Hyson twins graduated, I played alongside their younger brother, Steve, who also liked the "rainbow shot" from outside.

Who were these Hysons? Didn't really know much about them as they weren't from our neighborhood.

Well, I soon learned that Margaret and Rendall Hyson were their parents and they had two more children, Kathy and Glenn. Not quite matching the "Burnham seven" but a big family nonetheless.

Basketball was a family thing for the Hysons. After Steve, Glenn continued the tradition, then along came basketball-playing grandsons Tony, Todd, Evan, Cory and Christopher, and granddaughter, Hillary, whom I ended up coaching.

We used to joke that the Hysons would soon take up nearly an entire cheering section in Porter Memorial Gymnasium. You almost could bet that Rendall and Margaret, Richard, Ronnie and Steve and their wives would be in the stands whenever the grandchildren took the court.

Well, we have recently lost Margaret and Rendall, but we are glad that they came into our lives, provided us with many Seahawk memories, and that they got to enjoy those memories.

Rest in peace.