When long-time Team USA head coach Rod Ross announced his retirement in December, the first person I mentioned among the obvious candidates to succeed him was Junior Team USA head coach Bryan O’Keefe.
While I wrote that if I again was a Team USA player, Mark Baker would be the coach who “intrigues me the most” to work with, I also wrote that USBC was in a “no-lose situation with the bountiful choices” before it to succeed Ross.
Choosing O’Keefe was both the...