When he began coaching basketball, Dawson County’s Steve Sweat never imagined that he would be coaching a girls’ team, much less guiding them to a state championship game. Sweat started out coaching a boys basketball program, but when he changed schools to work closer to home, the only position available was as an assistant coach to the girls basketball team. So, he took the job an immediately began contemplating how he was going to change his style to coach girls instead of boys, but a close friend and mentor gave him the advice he needed to become one of the region’s most successful coaches.