Bartow Boys’ Basketball Team–Coaches Profile
Coaches Name:
Howe Wallace III “Tripp”
Occupation/years worked: Teacher at Bartow High School/5th year
Number of years as a coach in Bartow: 9th Year
Family information: Howe and Jenny Wallace(parents), Lauren and Kate Wallace (sisters), Julie Macbride
(sister)
Take a moment to talk about this year’s team? Every team is different, and there is an excitement of
coaching each team. This group has a lot of new pieces, and I am looking forward to how these new
pieces(Serrano, Jalon, Trey, Christion, and Will) will gel with the pieces already in place(Tony, TJ, Timmy,
Akari, Kamel), and the pieces that moved up from the Junior Varsity(Chris). This team should be more
athletic, and taller, but less experienced, so I am excited to see how the new pieces and the inexperience
play out. This team works very hard in the classroom, and their effort is outstanding. When you watch this
team, watching how hard they play every possession will excite you as a fan. They play with passion, and
they play for each other, and that is all you can really ask for as a coach.
This year’s motto is Take it Higher!! What does that mean to you? Every year the goal is the same. Be
better than we were last year. I want to be more successful than the previous year, as a team, as a staff, as
a coach, and as a man, and take it higher doing it together!
You favorite basketball drill? Russian Drill (a full court shooting, passing, and layup drill)
The town, school, community support. Can you talk about what it means to you and our program? The
town of Bartow is awesome! I grew up here and played here, and being able to coach where I played is a
blessing, and I do not take that blessing for granted. No one supports basketball like the City of Bartow.
Good or bad, they have your back. No one sponsors a program better than the people and businesses of
Bartow around. There is a buzz around when the Yellow Jackets are playing basketball, and living up to the
expectation of the community is a challenge we love to take on every day. We want you all to be proud of
us and of the work we are doing with these young men, and making them going to college, and productive
citizens.
A funny story (one you haven’t told)? In 2009, Coach Webb and I coached a travel team, and we invited a
guy by the name of Chris Perry to join our team in the middle of the season. In Clearwater, there was
something going on the room at 2 am which merited some running at the hotel. Chris wasn’t a part of this,
so we decided not to run him, but he watched very attentively from the balcony, while we ran the other
two kids until 3:30 am that morning. I think we made a wise decision because 4 years later, Chris told us,
“remember that night? I would have never played again if you ran me that night, coach!”
Favorite quote?? Talk is Cheap! Your actions do the talking!