Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, May 17 (reporter Xia Liang) in “slam dunk masters”, which bears the memories of a generation of youth, the protagonists tried their best and finally failed to fulfill the dream of “national hegemony. However, in reality, the basketball team of Huipu Middle School in Linhai city, Taizhou city, Zhejiang province has realized the unfinished dream of “Xiangbei basketball team” in cartoons.
There is no advantage of students and no financial advantage. In the national high school basketball league where famous schools gather and are as strong as Lin, why did this County Middle School from the coast of the East China Sea laugh at the end?
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With “tradition”
The basketball tradition of Hupu middle school can be traced back to before the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In 1912, Hupu private school, the predecessor of Hupu Middle School, was established in Linhai. Lu Hanwen, the founder of Huopu, was deeply influenced by the thought of “strengthening the body and saving the country” during his stay in the foreign country. After returning home, he attached great importance to sports work.
Jiang Xianjun, the former vice president of Huipu Middle School and the director of the transportation management center of Huipu education group, who created the brilliant basketball in Huipu Middle School, introduced that under the guidance of Lu Hanwen, since then, the motto of the students is “sports do not forget reading, reading do not forget Sports.
In the era of war, there was a basketball team in Hupu. According to the history of Hupu Middle School, Hupu indoor basketball stand was built in 1928 and is one of the earliest indoor basketball training venues in Zhejiang province.
Time flow, although Sanyi is located, the basketball tradition of Hupu Middle School has never been lost. Walking into Hupu middle school, you will find that basketball has become a part of the campus life of most students. There will always be students playing basketball in the playground during big classes, lunch break and after school.
In Huipu middle school, there is an elective course for basketball in junior high school. In the first year of senior high school, learning basic basketball skills and understanding the theoretical knowledge of basketball has become a general course for every student. In senior two and senior three, although there are other sports for free choice, basketball is still the first choice for many students.
In addition to teaching, Hupu also has various basketball matches, and every year the school also undertakes various high-level basketball matches above the provincial level. Under the strong atmosphere of basketball, the students have a basketball complex imperceptibly.
The netizen “the polar bear watching the sunset in Venice” said that after Huopu reversed and won the championship, he heard the shouts on the scene and found his hands shaking uncontrollably, this reminded her of the scene when she was sitting in the gym cheering for the team in her senior high school in 2017. “Crying and shouting at the scene, I don’t know how many were broken at cheering stick. At the end, I found that too many Hupu people who had graduated from the circle of friends were shouting for the team. This victory has been waiting for a long time. This championship trophy, Hupu people and people are proud!”
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Second, stick to it”
If you want to make a difference in the competition, plus-sized investment in manpower and material resources can often achieve significant or even immediate results. Compared with some famous universities in big cities, Hupu Middle School, which is located in a corner of the Southeast, does not have such conditions and resources.
When Jiang Xianjun graduated from the former Department of Physical Education of Hangzhou University and went back to his alma mater to teach in 1982, he faced a “three noes” basketball team without special coaches, fixed players and professional venues. In order to rally forces again, he could only run around and look for excellent basketball seedlings in all villages and towns of the county.
Recalling the scene that was selected by Jiang Xianjun at that time, Li Kangle, deputy director of Huopu Sports Management Center, was quite sad: “In 1995, I was studying in grade 3 and taking part in the sports senior high school entrance examination, he saw me on the playground and thought I was quite tall. Then he said it was OK. I haven’t played basketball either.”
In this way, “the East and the West”, slowly, Hupu Middle School from Linhai to the city competition, provincial competition and national competition. In this process, Hupu Middle School became more and more famous in the basketball circle, which gradually formed the training mode of taking local players as the bottom of the class, introducing Northern players one after another and establishing echelon.
In 2017, Hupu Middle School, which became a frequent visitor to the finals of the national high school basketball league, finally broke the window paper, breaking the monopoly of Tsinghua affiliated high school for many years and winning the championship. In 2023, after six years of dormancy, Hupu middle school reached the top again men’s basketball.
In addition to the unique training mode, the basketball in Hupu middle school can not be separated from the inheritance and persistence of generations of coaches. Li Kangle, the “layman” selected by Jiang Xianjun in the track and field, returned to Hupu after graduation to serve as the head coach of junior high school men’s basketball for 16 years. Today, Li Kangle’s students, Sun Xinliang and Sun Geng of the “post-90s” also took the torch of Hupu basketball from him.
“From generation to generation, we have been going back to Pu, and the fire has been passed down from generation to generation, which also makes the basketball of Hui Pu middle school continue to be full of vitality.” Li Qidi, dean of the School of Physical Education and Health Sciences of Zhejiang Normal University, said.
Three with “Spirit”
Huipu middle school claimed to be “Qi Jiajun” men’s basketball “.
5 kilometers away from Hupu Middle School is the front line of national hero Qi Jiguang. After years of vicissitudes, the “Linhai ancient Great Wall” that resisted the invasion of the Japanese pirates still stood. Hundreds of years ago, Qi Jiguang once laid a “Mandarin duck array” here. With the cooperation of birds, bows and crossbows, he defeated the Japanese pirates at one stroke. Since then, Qi Jiguang relied on the “Mandarin duck array” big broken Japanese pirates in all parts of Taizhou, nine wars and nine Jie.
Since then, tenacity and tenacity have been carved into the genes of people near the sea.
The semi-finals fell behind from the first half to the reversal of Guangdong Experimental Middle School. The final was once 6 points behind Tsinghua secondary school in overtime to win the championship. Facing the difficulties in these fields, Hupu Middle School eventually turned against the wind. “We came back six points behind overtime. We rely on willpower and desire for the championship.” After the game, Luo Lun, head coach of Hupu Middle School men’s basketball, said.
The small town is full of dreams.
Li Kangle clearly remembered that this year’s National High School League champion was the fifth national champion in the history of Huopu Middle School, while other rankings such as runner-up “couldn’t count with fingers”, “Because on the way to hit the national championship, it has failed too many times”.
“The Wild Central Plains chased the deer field, climbing high and feeling long. I would like to support Feng Rui and Jian Qiang Liang and become the light of our school.” In 1917, Lu Hanwen wrote this song “school song of Huopu”; A hundred years later, Huopu people still adhere to the school motto and carry forward the spirit of Huopu.
On the 16th, the basketball teenager of Hupu middle school returned, and the whole city of Linhai welcomed him.