Jason Black's coaching career began after a pick-up basketball game at Hanford's Longfield Center. In 2001, Ismael Castaneda, then a coach at Hanford West, approached Black about coaching girls ...

and used his position to coach beyond the game of basketball. But outside of the wins and the X’s and O’s was the unpaved path for Key, who’s likely the first-ever Black coach of the ...

Now she was the first Black female head coach in school history, and only the fourth-ever women's basketball coach. Her son, Jaden, would be playing basketball just a few hours away at Purdue.