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Volleyball Coach Jim McLaughlin and Family Rediscover Camping in Their Own Backyard

The Great American Backyard Campout, coming up on June 23, was created for people like Jim McLaughlin. McLaughlin, one of America's elite volleyball coaches who will begin his 12th season at the University of Washington in August, once conceded to me that he had not been camping for years. Make that decades. Since McLaughlin last went camping, he has won 2 national collegiate championships (with the USC men's team in 1990; with the Washington women in 2005), gotten married and become the father ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on June 15, 2012 12:27 PM & Tagged Jim McLaughlin, Margaret McLaughlin, Washington, camping, great american backyard campout, kids and volleyball | permalink | Comments