About

I decided to start a blog. I’m not sure what a blog is or why I want to start one, or if anyone will even read it, at least more than once!  Some history about myself. I’m 50 years old; I have been coaching all my life it seems. Even when I was in my early teens, I was helping with the baseball program in town. I coached my first little baseball team right out of high school. The league was short on coaches, I knew some of the other coaches, before long, I was a head coach. Head coach of Lions, well almost, before I had coached even one practice, I switched to National Bank. Why? Because that was the team I played on when I was a little leaguer, so the chance came up to coach that team, so I took it.  Coached five years won two league pennants, lost two city championships,  won one league tournament championships, got married, scheduled the wedding and honeymoon around the baseball games.  My wife Vicky should of figured something out there?  So I guess  sports have been part of my life, my whole life. Played baseball, football, basketball, all thru grade school and high school. Wasn’t great, wasn’t bad. All conference in football, 1st team. 6’2” 125 lbs. With no speed. You might take notice of the sports I did play for future reference. Two years of junior college, was going to finish at a four year school, had an offer to stay in town and make some money, managing a restaurant, so I did. Married at age of 20, first child at around the age of 25, a beautiful , and I mean real beautiful girl. (she takes after her mother.) Just a normal family in the Midwest, in a small town of less than 8,000.  Added two kids both boys. I was still coaching some, helping with a Babe Ruth baseball team, helping some at a small catholic school in town.  The kids were growing and of course they were interested in shooting basketballs, playing baseball, stuff like that.  Well to be honest Audrey was somewhat interested, as long as she could look good at it. To be honest she did look good in her little ball hat and blue shirt. The boys took to sports right off, running, jumping, shooting baskets. Just your typical boys. They played tee ball, I coached. They played pee wee basketball, I coached. Flag football, the same. My philosophy  from the beginning was let the kids have fun. Teach them the fundamentals, but make sure they had fun. Guess what? It worked. We had fun, we learned about the games, and we even won a few times as a team. No yelling, no screaming, NO SWEARING! The kids were happy, the parents were happy, at the end of the day everybody got a snow cone. This has been me in nutshell. I love coaching.