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Sam Brooks & Cookeville High School Girls' Basketball

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Sam Brooks meets with Jamie Gillies, head girls basketball coach at Cookeville High School. They go over the special feeling of making it to state for the second straight year as only eight teams go from each class, how to keep the girls motivated night in and night out while trying to juggle things like school, discussing what this year's two seniors brought to the team and both girls signing to play college basketball.

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