Don Carlson felt like Marty McFly in the DeLorean time machine when he made it back from the 30-year Lady Bruins basketball alumni game back at St. Bede Academy on Feb. 16.

The “old coach,” as he likes to say, was the founding father of the program in 1982-83, coming over from the varsity boys’ team at the request of his daughter, Dawn, now the volleyball coach at the Academy.

He was very successful coaching boys basketball for years. From day one, however, the new Lady Bruins coach told the girls he would treat them as basketball players, not girls basketball players, but basketball players. He told them they wouldn’t be compared to boys.