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From Mother to Daughter: A Volleyball Coaching Legacy at West Henderson

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Tiffany Lowrance embodies what it means to be a hometown hero. As the head volleyball coach at West Henderson High School since 2010, she recently received the prestigious Doris Howard Female Coach of the Year Award from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association – and for good reason.

Behind Tiffany's success lies a remarkable family legacy. Following in the footsteps of her mother, who coached at West Henderson for 35 years, Tiffany has created her own coaching dynasty. The volleyball program isn't just her job; it's truly a family affair. Her husband coaches football at the school, her sister serves as her assistant volleyball coach, and her children are deeply involved in athletics. This immersion in sports culture provides Lowrance with unique insights that translate to success on the court.

The 2023 season proved historic for Coach Lowrance's program. Her team achieved perfection in conference play, going 36-0 without dropping a single set – an extraordinary accomplishment in competitive high school volleyball. When facing challenges during tournament play, her players maintained composure and focus, ultimately capturing the school's first volleyball state championship after previously finishing as runners-up twice. Lowrance's coaching philosophy emphasizes being present with teammates (she implements a no-phone policy during travel tournaments) and approaching the season as chapters to complete one step at a time. 

Despite losing five seniors from her championship squad, Lowrance remains characteristically optimistic about the upcoming season. With approximately 100 young athletes enrolled in her summer volleyball camp, she's already developing the next generation of talent. Her competitive spirit, family values, and genuine connection with players create an environment where excellence flourishes. Want to learn more about exceptional community leaders? Tune in to the George Real Estate Group's Hometown Hero series every Friday morning at 8:45 on WHKP.

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The George Real Estate Group radio broadcast is celebrating 10 years on WHKP. The George Real Estate Group is celebrating 10 years on the radio live every Thursday morning at 10.05 on WHKP 107.7 FM and AM 1450 and streaming online at WHkpcom. Each Friday morning at 845,. The George Real Estate Group presents the Hometown Hero Award to someone in our community who goes above and beyond to make our hometown a better place to live. Here's this week's Hometown Hero Show. It's 845 and it's time for our George Real Estate Group Hometown Hero Show. It's 845 and it's time for our George Real Estate Group Hometown Hero Series. Every Friday morning, noah George and I get together and talk about many different topics, like National Donut Day.

Speaker 1:

I wasn't ready for that You're a man ahead of your time. You brought donuts last week.

Speaker 3:

I was a week off, you brought donuts last week. I was a week off, I brought the donuts last week. I didn't realize today was National Donut Day, but more importantly, it's our hometown heroes series.

Speaker 1:

That's right.

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more importantly, this Friday morning. It's always a privilege and honor to be here with you, randy, and meeting incredible men and women, hearing their stories and sharing some incredible uh people to our community that have been serving our community it really is.

Speaker 1:

It's really a nice way to wrap up our week, and donuts or not, you know, it's always fun to get together, and today, tiffany lawrence is with us, and we're going to talk to her a little bit more. And first of all, though, we're going to talk to her a little bit more, and first of all, though, we're going to check in on the real estate market. You know, tell me how things are going.

Speaker 3:

The market continues to move. Here in Henderson County it's softened a little bit, but our average single-family home price over the last 12 months is at $538. We're averaging 126 single-family homes a month selling. Over the last 12 months Really the last 24 months it's been steady. The demand here in Henderson County it's not what it was a number of years ago but, the market is healthy.

Speaker 3:

It's moving. We have low inventory levels. The demand again it's appropriate. I mean the demand compared to the inventory. Again it's still technically a seller's market. We have a four-month supply of inventory but the market's still moving. We're still seeing if it's priced right. We're still seeing multiple offers on homes and again, but also on the other side of the coin, we see homes where we have to do price adjustments. So it's a bit of both right now but the market is very steady and healthy. We have an open house this Sunday at 1938 Upper Ridgewood Boulevard in Druid Hills, 2 to 4 for $325. This is a 1,700 square foot home, 3-2. Great home, druid Hills. Definitely recommend going out and checking it out this weekend.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and we were talking earlier about your podcasts. Those are available wherever you get podcasts, and you can learn a lot more about current market conditions and listings, et cetera, by checking out those podcasts.

Speaker 3:

Absolutely, and we're here every Thursday morning at 10 am. We've been doing the radio show since 2011,. And then we do a number of other radio shows. We've done over 1,600 radio shows throughout the years.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

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In addition to, again, we just use that as a platform to share about our community, about what's going on in the market. We love promoting our nonprofits and, again, our podcast, as you mentioned.

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There's a lot of great information there, yeah yeah Well, join me in welcoming Tiffany Lawrence to the microphone. Good morning, tiffany, good morning. How are you? I'm doing well. How about you? I'm doing great. Thank you for coming to visit with us this Friday morning. We wanted to talk a little bit, if we could, about your recent award from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. You were named the Doris Howard Female Coach of the Year. So gosh, that's pretty incredible.

Speaker 2:

Such an honor.

Speaker 1:

yes, yeah, tell us about the day job. What got you nominated here?

Speaker 2:

Well, I believe I just had a solid foundation right from you know, growing up with my mom as my coach and just knowing how important these girls look up to you and how important that you're available to them all the time, and I just put a whole lot of love into making sure they're growing every single day, on and off the court.

Speaker 3:

How long have you been the coach at Wes Henderson?

Speaker 2:

I've been head coach since 2010.

Speaker 3:

Wow, that's incredible. And how was your season this year?

Speaker 2:

Oh, it was amazing Right from the get-go. We just started off strong in the gym and you know, we went through that downtime with Helene.

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We all kind of caught our breath and we were just itching to get back in the gym and once we were able to, we just kept hitting it off and just, you know, playing up to our potential, and we just dominated on the court and it was just so much fun to, so much fun to witness that's amazing, I'm sure, over the years so 15 years as the head coach at West um, it's I'm sure it's amazing to see the I mean you're able to see the, the, the, you're students and your players come through from their freshmen, through their senior year and just all those cycles that you're able to walk through with the kids, I mean in the leadership that you develop on your program. Again, 15 years, again, it's incredible what you've been doing.

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It's been a joy. The whole family's pretty much involved in athletics and they've been in the gym, so it's just been a family affair with all the girls and my personal family, and it's just an honor to be able to serve these kids and, you know, watch them grow.

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Well, a little bit about the person you received this Doris Howard Female Coach of the Year Award. And a little bit about Doris Howard. She had a 41-year career as a teacher and coach in Cumberland County and retired after the 87-88 season. In women's basketball. Had a record of 533 and 231, coached at Hope Mills Central and Cape Fear High Schools. Coached at Hope Mills Central and Cape Fear High Schools. Was a head coach in tennis, basketball and softball during her career and she received a Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in 1989. And also coached twice in the East-West All-Star Basketball game in Greensboro. So to be receiving the award that's named after someone with a record like that, tell us about how that feels.

Speaker 2:

Oh well, I got the phone call. I was just in awe and in such an honor and I'm blessed to be able to even be considered for the award. But you know, it all boils down to these kids that I get to coach they're they helped me get that award, um yeah they, they just, you know, they pushed me to be always pushing them.

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So we're, you know, it's just a a big family affair for me and um, so it was such an honor and I couldn't have got it without those girls so I mean when I think you're underplaying when you say family affair.

Speaker 3:

Let let's talk about context. Your mother was the head coach for 35 years at Wes Henderson. Yes, oh wow, I mean that's incredible, and so I mean you grew up. That was life for you. It was. And then here you are, continuing the legacy. I mean, was that something that ever crossed your mind that you know? You thought you could be in those shoes being the head coach.

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Oh well, the shoes of head coach. Yes, I've always loved, you know loved taking over, you know a team and you know watching them develop. Now my mom's shoes. I don't know if I can fulfill them, but you know she's always been a constant. You know someone to look up to from. You know, when I was little she coached me. Hopefully I'll have the honor of coaching my daughter as well. She's already in the volleyball world, so it's just a family affair. We're always in the gym, so special yes.

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Tell us about the family.

Speaker 2:

Well, I have, my husband coaches football at west. Okay, my son is uh gonna be a junior sophomore there at west. He plays football, basketball and baseball. And my sweet daughter is 10 and she's playing, you know, volleyball all the time now as well that's amazing and oh, I forgot my, my sister's, my assistant coach, so we're just all together.

Speaker 1:

It really is a family affair. That's amazing.

Speaker 3:

And you know, I think coaches have such and teachers I mean, have such an incredible role in our kids' lives. These days, again, sports just happen to be the catalyst for these life conversations.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, and it's so important to be there for those girls. Of course, you have to coach each one of them pretty differently for them to be able to excel on the court, but it's just an honor and it's a challenge every year and I love it.

Speaker 3:

I was about to say what is your biggest challenge when you look at the coaching, what you do, what is your biggest challenge?

Speaker 2:

Well, the girls bought in this year. They bought into how we ran our practices. I give them a lot of. We even listen to music during practice. But I was like you have to stay focused, you have to keep talking and do, and they just they work hard and it's just. You know. It's a balance of trying to see what works best for them and to be able to incorporate that in, you know, your practices and game situations and and it's and it's it helped a lot this year and I thought the girls just bought in and we all just made it happen that's amazing what, uh, what's changed?

Speaker 1:

tiffany and the students and and everybody in the 15 years that well, I mean even going back to your mom's career, you, why? What have you seen?

Speaker 2:

that's different oh well, the technology, the phones, all that is it's. You know it can get in the way a lot. Yeah, I also coach travel ball as well and we don't have phones out at all during our tournaments. And I think that's so important for them to like just Be present.

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And be a team Like just you know getting along, you know on the court and off the court, and just you know that team unity is just so important and I think that really how we accomplished a state championship this year. You know our teamwork and so that has you know that just transfers over. I'm not in the social. I mean I have social media, but I'm not. I don't dive in like these girls do, so I don't really know much about it, but we just try to. You know, just stay grounded.

Speaker 3:

Was this your first state championship? It is. That's incredible.

Speaker 2:

Yes, we had two state runner-ups One was in 2019, and I can't remember when that other one was but I had two state runner-ups and this is our first.

Speaker 2:

Was that a conversation at the beginning of the year, that that that goal, or is that a byproduct of doing the things right, I mean every single day, I mean it's the it's always your end goal, of course, but uh, the girls are always wanting that state championship well, but we always just focus on each chapter and we've got to finish the season first, and then we've got to start doing the playoffs and then it's just take it one day at a time.

Speaker 2:

We always just call them. We finish one chapter, let's check off the next one.

Speaker 3:

Was there any standout moments this year? That was just a turning point. You're like oh, these students, these athletes get it.

Speaker 2:

Well, we went 36-0 in our conference this year. We didn't lose one set, wow, which was pretty amazing. So when we got those challenges where we did lose a couple sets, they did not give up.

Speaker 3:

They didn't get rattled.

Speaker 2:

They didn't. You could see it in their faces, you can see it in the parents' faces. They just stayed focused and you know we could have our little moments but they always bounce back. Even with the kids on the bench, they picked everybody up, they made sure they just everyone stayed on, the stayed focused and just played their hearts out that's amazing.

Speaker 1:

I can tell you're so proud of this group oh, I'm very proud what's uh in in just a couple of minutes. We've got left. What's next what to talk about? I mean, you've got a follow-up here.

Speaker 2:

I know Well we lost five seniors but we still have that group. They play all the time. They're a year-long playing volleyball and they just love to be in the gym.

Speaker 2:

We start our volleyball camp next week, uh, with the little kids and they're all coming in to work it. We have. We have about 100 kids attending right now, so it's going to be a, you know, a good, good start of the season. Then we get all back together end of july and we just start dialing in and, uh, and I'm looking forward to it, we should be pretty decent this year as well.

Speaker 1:

Well, that state championship, I mean, that draws kids in. Well, let's do this, let's check out this volleyball thing.

Speaker 2:

We're very competitive girls which. I am very competitive as well. That's awesome. That's nice.

Speaker 1:

Well, we just want to say congratulations. We just wanted to shine a little light on the things that are happening with you and your team and thank you for all the hard work you put into it. We have a token of our appreciation, a little certificate and also some goodies from restaurants around town, and we just want to say thank you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you very much. It's been an honor. This community has been a blessing to me.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely agree with that. Noah, we've got about a minute left. Remind us of an open house.

Speaker 3:

This weekend Open house this weekend, 1938 Upper Ridgewood Boulevard 2 to 4 this Sunday. And, of course, for all your real estate needs, give the Georgia Real Estate Group a call today 828-393-0134. We've had the privilege of helping over 1,500 families with their real estate needs throughout the years.

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And join us again next Friday for our George Real Estate Group Hometown Hero. Next week, david Weintraub will be with us. Hendersonville commemorates the 60th anniversary of the integration of its schools with a new film documenting the black community's thirst for education. This film is named Color Beyond the Lines and it's a new film, will premiere June 21st at Blue Ridge Community College, and David will be with us next week on the George Real Estate Group Hometown Hero Series. Join us each Friday morning. Have a great weekend everyone.

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The George Real Estate Group is located in Flat Rock, north Carolina, near Hendersonville in Henderson County. You can find them online at realestatebygregcom. The George Real Estate Group can be reached at 828-393-0134 or stop by their office at 2720 Greenville Highway, flat Rock, north Carolina, north Carolina. Tune in live each week on Thursdays at 10 0 5 AM on WHKP 107.7 FM and 1450 AM, or stream online at whkpcom or download these podcasts wherever you get your podcasts. The George real estate group brings you the WHKP hometown hero series every Friday morning at eight 45.