Female coach leads Atlanta high school boys basketball team into state tournament

ATLANTA - When the final buzzer sounded in a packed gym on the city’s west side last week, players rushed toward head coach Marcusha Bennett, lifting her briefly off the hardwood in celebration.Bennett, believed to be the only female head coach of a boys varsity basketball team in Atlanta, had just guided the Douglass High Astros to their first state tournament appearance in six years.“I don’t coach boys. I coach basketball,” Bennett said Tuesday after practice. “The standard is the same. The ex