NECC Basketball is a family activity for head coach Darren Stratton. Son Cameron Stratton of Haverhill and nephew Matt Logue of Windham N.H., are both on the team.

During the interview process we went in depth to get to know a little more about the Stratton family. Stratton say Cameron previously served as a manager and son Nicholas also was a manager. His another son Talan also currently play at Central Catholic.

Basketball is huge for the Stratton family. Advice that Stratton gave Cameron and Matt was “to work hard every day and to compete. So, we want them always to compete and always to work hard and that’s the best advice that I gave them coming up before for me here at the college,” Stratton said.

Stratton will cut his son and his nephew if they don’t perform well in the tryout. Cameron Stratton said his not surprised by his father comments. Matt Logue said he rememeber that him and two of his teammates were not in the roster the last minute but he understand that it is a business and he does not want his uncle to get fired.

Darren Stratton was a point guard (PG). “As a basketball player you just have to focus get yourself mentally ready prepared, and prepared for that situation… worried what I can do to become better worried about the game itself how I could mentally get ready for the basketball game ahead. It’s totally different being a coach. Being a coach I got to worry about not only my coaching staff to make sure that we prepared… I have to control each individual on my basketball team to make sure they’re mentally ready  to prepared and also I have to find a way for them to all conexsist… it’s a lot of responsibility on a coach. As a player I took losses hard but not nearly as had as I did as a basketball coach…”Stratton said.

Other than Basketball one thing all three of them have in common is that they all love sports and they are very competitive. “As a family if me and the uncles want to play the nephews and son… we killed each other.. we share a bond,” he said.

“Family is a big bond with us we all love a family he (Matt) comes from a big family Cameron and I we come from a good size family. I have three boys his grandmother and grandfather live with us, so I think family and sport has always brought us together beside basketball. Basketball brought us together and that is a memory that we are going to share for-ever depending how the season goes good or bad that I got a chance to coach both of them…” Stratton said.

Cameron Stratton has been playing basketball for along time and it is something that it influenced him his whole life. Cameron told me he is going to transfer to a four year school and start his coaching career and he is looking forward to get a bachelor’s degree in a division one school. This is his last semester playing basketball for along time and it is something that it influenced him his whole life.

Cameron told me that he is going to transfer to a four year school and start his coaching career and he is looking forward to get a bachelor degree in a division one school. He used to be a nursing major but due to what happen during the coronavirus pandemic he change his major to psychology.

Basketball it all started for Logue when he was in third grade he played AAU with his uncle Coach Stratton coaching him. “When I was in third through fifth grade I played with coach Stratton and the seventh grade through Junior year I played for him”Logue Said.