Kent Nate
Having watched the movie “Cokeville Miracle” reminds me of Kent Nate, who moved into our Hyrum Fourth Ward when I was in Junior High. He moved there from Cokeville. I was introduced to Kent when someone asked me how I liked being replaced as the best basketball player in our age group at the wad. We would play a lot of basketball for scouts. And I wasn’t the best basketball player, that honor went to Brad Thomas who was much taller than me. However I was the best guard, and Kent Nate fit right into our system as playing guard with me and challenging me for the top honor. Honestly I would say we were evenly matched, even though Kent was a year younger than me (as was Brad Thomas.) It seemed Kent and Brad became close friends. We had experiences playing together for church basketball games, which was an organized league as I was growing up, and also experiences with scout camps and scouting. Our ward boundaries changed several times, and we eventually were no longer in the same ward. I went back to the second ward, while there were also sixth and eight wards along with the fourth ward. I even heard Kent’s family moved back to Cokeville. I did notice there were several kids with the last name Nate in the documentary of the Cokeville Miracle who must have been related.
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