Sidelined by injuries, Davies' Max Froslie stays in the game by coaching

FARGO Every athletes playing career ends at some point, but for Fargo basketball player Max Froslie, that moment came sooner than expected.

Now the freshman basketball coach at his alma mater, Davies High School, Froslie admits it was a hard reality to accept at times.

Froslie missed his entire senior year at Davies with a torn ACL.

Just two months after being cleared to start his college career at University of Mary, the same ACL failed him again.

As soon as it happened, I kind of knew.

It felt the exact same as the first time," Froslie recalled.

"I remember calling my parents about it, telling them and not knowing what the future would look like." His next call was to Davies boys basketball coach Bart Manson.

Someone who had already seen the coaching potential in Froslie.

(Manson) basically said, 'Well, it's time for you to come back and come back here and start coaching for us,'" Froslie said.

"I couldnt be happier with the decision I made.

It's been the best three, four months of my life so far." Froslie said coaching two teams of freshman boys comes with a learning curve "Listening, apparently, is very tough, and I have to explain myself multiple times, but they're freshmen, so they'll come around eventually," Froslie joked.

His first season as a head coach is also a full-circle experience.

We played a big game against West Fargo a couple weeks ago that we ended up winning, and it was in the crunch time and that's really when it hit me," Froslie said.

"It was our first really close game, big game kind of thing, where I'm having to draw stuff up on the fly and then looking down at the guys that are on the floor and they're wearing the same jersey I wore two years ago." Thankfully for Froslie, he already had relationships with several of his current players.

"I knew a couple of them already from youth camps when I was in high school," Froslie said.

"They were in fourth and fifth grade when I was in high school.

I coached them at our youth camps.

"I know a good amount of them, so it's really not hard.

It's just cool to see them grow up.".

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