Friday night Pocono Mountain West Head Coach Brad Pensyl picked up his 500th career win. This is his 14th year with the Panthers after spending the previous 13 seasons at Pocono Mountain High School.
"What's it mean to you to have 500 wins in a career? I guess it means that I'm old. I don't know. I've had some great kids here, and great assistant coaches, and my wife supported me all these years, so it takes all those things to have a milestone like this," said Brad.
Pensyl's three talented juniors pushed the pace last Friday night against Allentown Central Catholic- Jalen Vaughns, Isaiah Wiggins and Lancelot Singh with key contributions.
"This team is going good this year. We are all playing hard and we are all playing defense. We are all maturing. We like pressuring a lot. We score off our defense," said Lancelot.
"We try to contain them and keep them in front of us, and when we do that we get stops and that turns the offense and we do a good job with that," said Isaiah.
Both Lancelot and Isaiah have started for Coach Pensyl here at Pocono Mountain West since they we're freshman, and recently both went over 1,000 points in their careers.
"Certainly they are two of the better players that I've coached. I've had so many here, and down at the other school before we broke up, but they will go down as two of the better players that has played basketball for Pocono Mountain and in Monroe county," said Brad again.
West is in the hunt for an Eastern Pennsylvania Conference championship. They have the talent and a hall of fame coach in Pensyl.
"This is my 27th year here so I certainly wasn't looking for 500 wins obviously, but we've done so well here lately and won a ton of games and I don't know if it's longevity or what, but we've been very successful here and certainly 500 wins is a testament to the coaches and kids I've had play here," added Brad.
The Panthers play Allentown Allen on Wednesday night February 10th, 2016 at 6pm at Bethlehem Liberty High School in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Basketball semi-finals.