Massapequa coach Mike Capone gets 300th gymnastics win
Photo credit: James Escher | Massapequa's Katie Wall, right, gets congratulatory high fives from head coach Mike Capone and assistant coach Lisa Kusky after her performance on the uneven bars. (Jan. 14, 2013)
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Mike Capone wanted to be a Nassau County football coach when he started teaching, and instead, the Massapequa school district gave him its gymnastics team. Neither he nor the program would be the same.
Rather than grumbling about the job, he threw himself into it wholeheartedly -- his gymnasts and other coaches teaching him how to spot and how to train. Thirty-seven years later, in a home...
