Fremont’s Sullivan eager to make up for lost season

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Sam Sullivan, pictured left, admits it took some time to shed the bitterness he felt in serving a one-year suspension as Fremont’s boys basketball coach. The suspension was one of the penalties imposed on the team after City Section officials determined the Pathfinders had used six ineligible players during the 2005-06 season.

Fremont, restricted to playing 14 games last season, went 8-6.

But Sullivan is back and excited about the 2007-08 season. The anger is gone, but the passion to coach still burns brightly.

‘If I didn’t have that passion, I would have just stepped down,’ he said.

‘As you get older you learn you can’t dwell on things. I was extremely bitter the first couple of months. Then you realize things happen for a reason. It made me re-charge my batteries, see things from a different light and maybe make me a better coach.’

-- Mike Terry

-- Image by Perry Riddle/Los Angeles Times