In my opinion coach Blate was the best, most successful girls BB coach in the valley. He will be highly missed as both a coach and a person. I might be wrong, but I think at one point he won 4 consecutive section titles. He over the years was moved up from D-IV to D-3 to D-II. For such a small school as YHS was, I think that's pretty remarkable. I hope I got my facts correct.