It’s very appropriate that they call it a Cinderella season. After all, Tony Chisholm and his team have waited a long time and put in a lot of hard work to get to put on this glass slipper.

While we periodically see North Kitsap teams, whether school or club, go undefeated in a season, we wanted to take a moment to congratulate the Kingston Junior High girls and their coach. An event that could have been a blip on the radar really becomes, for us, a lesson in community and the people who make an area like North Kitsap great.

Chisholm often likes to talk about the toolbox of basketball skills that he wants each of his players to have as they move up toward high school play. More than likely, though, those toolboxes are filled with other skills as well — teamwork, integrity, humility, perseverance, self-esteem — skills they’ll use whether they end up playing for the WNBA, or they never touch a basketball again in their lives.

How many of us can truly say that we’ve added such skills to any local youth’s toolbox? Chisholm has — most likely in every school, parks and rec department and kids program he’s been a part of.

Too often we hear of people getting ahead for the wrong reasons, whether it’s because they have the most money, fame, popularity or the least morals. Every once in a while, it’s nice to step back and watch someone who’s given so much to so many get the spotlight.

So in the end, this isn’t about games won at all.

Despite going 12 years without an undefeated season, the teams Chisholm coached never really lost.