We tried to figure out the total number of man-hours(woman-hours too!) that all the people
below gave up to be a Fencor Coach this past season. Here's some of the things you have to
count in: Practice Time, Tournaments, Driving to and from practices and tournaments, Practice
preparation time, Time on the phone with parents, players, the office, Stuart and other coaches,
angst time, day dreaming at work time, day dreaming as they talked to their spouses over dinner
and on and on and on. Let's see, conservatively 16 hours a week during the season times 20 weeks
times 39 coaches equals 12,480 hours! That figures to be about the same number of hours in A YEAR
AND A HALF!!!!!!!!!! Wow, what a commitment of time. What a commitment period! Thanks to all below
for all their time and effort and talent and caring! You are the crucial part of why Fencor is what
it is! THANKS FOR ALL YOU'VE GIVEN!
9’s - Adam Owad, Dan Disanto
10 A - Erin McCartney, Melissa McCartney, Amanda Mattliano
10 B - Stuart London, Joei Rigous, Liz Derr
11 A - Terry Rakowsky, Heidi Kaucher-Richar
11 B - Jack Kramer
12 A - Carla Schultes, Neil O’Brien
12 B - Tom Schurtz, Nicole Stanley
12 C - Jay Jones, Mike D’Angelo
13 A - Steve Chapman, Beccie Strohecke
13 B - Lynn Carroll, Katie McCoy, Matt Carrol
13 C - Tom Welch, Elisabeth Golden
14 A - Dave Bass, Latifah McMullen
14 B - Marty Marbach, Anne Patterson
14 C - Steve Alpuche
15 A - Melissa Martinez, Rosemary Moffitt
15 B - Kevin Collins, Jim Siegler, Tom Keane
16 R - Veronica Algeo, Stuart London, Maggie DeMartelerie
16 M - Jerry Meakim
16 H - Heather Weindorfer, Eric Glemser
Coaches Corner- “T-Shirts Are Us”
Back in the day, T-Shirts at practice maybe had the name of the team, or were plain white or
maybe had a dopey, yellow happy face on them. Now at any practice, workout, or tryout you can get
tired trying to read all the T-Shirts. Team names from some long ago tournament, pictures of people,
places or things or lots and lots of slogans are on practically every T-Shirt. Practically all the
slogans are supposed to be motivational and that's where we can get in trouble. These slogans come
in various categories and it can be fun to really take a hard look at what they really say.
There are the fear-inducing ones like; “Run Hard or Run Home”. We can easily picture some
grumpy coach spitting that one out.
The threatening ones like; “I Bust Mine so I Can Beat Yours” If you wear that one do you play harder?
The avoid reality ones like; “We never lost a game - we only ran out of time.” Does that mean if my
team beat yours we didn’t really win… And we’re still playing?
The two-sides-of-the-shirt ones like; Front side: “Winners Train...” Back side: “Losers Complain!”
The only problem is the reader has to see both sides of you to get it!
The ‘What did you say ones?’ like; “While you are sleeping someone is getting better.” No wonder
that kid looks tired!
The intellectual ones that are cute but incorrect; “Basketball doesn’t build character, it reveals it.”
That author never played the game.
Which ones do you have? T-Shirts like bumper stickers are a relatively new form of expression in our
society. Sometimes looking at the back of a car we can tell: who the driver voted for, where they’ve
been on vacation, what radio station they listen to, or what they think of a certain subject. That
may tell you something about the driver.
Does your T-Shirt say something about you? Nah! No self-respecting coach would judge a player on her
T-Shirt. They are looking for T-Shirts that box-out, are closely defending the player on offense,
that are sweaty from hard work, are early for practice, that take offensive fouls, and get along with
their teammates. Those T-Shirts aren’t for sale! You have to earn those! Good luck!
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