The past two seasons have seen an unprecedented rebound for basketball fortunes at Pierce County High School. Twelve months after the PCHS girls stormed their way to Round 2 of the state playoffs, the boys team has punctuated its own renaissance. The same can be said for boys head coach Joseph Shannon “Shan” Garner.
Heading into the 2018 region tournament, the Bears were 18-7, having been ranked as high as seventh in the state. It has been a literal 180-degree swing from last season’s 9-17 mark and the four-win mark from two years ago. It has been an equally impressive upswing for Garner, who nearly five years ago was out of basketball completely. On the fast track to a hall-of-fame career, he stepped away from the game for a short-lived stay in the private sector. Now he’s back to the business of manufacturing winners.
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