Presidents Award 2010

Anita Jenkins Albemarle High School Girls Basketball Coach Anita Jenkins. Coaches are role models, mentors, task masters and cheerleaders. They help mend the aches and pains of losing and they know how to help message them into character-builders. Coach Jenkins has been all that and more during her 21 years as head basketball coach at Albemarle. Her lifetime won/loss record is 290 wins and 190 losses. Her teams have won 5 district championships, 14 district runner-up finishes, had 3 undefeated district seasons and missed the elite 8 at the state level one time by a bucket. Deb Tyson, Albemarle Athletic Director, says is best. “Coach Anita Jenkins has been a loyal Patriot for 24 years, serving as either an Assistant or Head Coach in the Patriot Girls Basketball program. Her greatest contribution as a coach has nothing to do with what kind of press she uses, or offense she runs or line-up she puts on the floor. Her greatest gift to our student-athletes has been her teachings of life – the lessons of family, adversity, strength, perseverance, faith, healing, trust and loving your teammate. She is clear on her role as a teacher of life skills and consistent with keeping the right perspective on what the entire experience and focus of interscholastic sports is about. She has been a tremendous role model to our young women by demonstrating and exemplifying all of these values while still producing respectable basketball players on the court year after year. Albemarle was fortunate to have Coach Jenkins in our department for 24 years. She leaves behind memories of a coach that gives from the heart and leads with class and style . . . often while sporting a pink silk pant suit.” Thank you and congratulations Coach Jenkins!