Waukegan High School Varsity Softball Coach

[waukco07]

I would like to give a fresh outlook to this issue from someone who experienced it first hand. I was coached by this coach for all four years of my High School career. I have had more than a hand full of coaches through out my 14 years of playing softball and I am going to have to disagree with Shawn White when I say that this man is one of the best coaches I have ever had the pleasure of playing for. He is very dedicated to his team and knows the ins and outs of being a good coach. From my freshman to senior year he helped me develop the skills, knowledge, and passion for the game that landed me on a very successful college softball team along with numerous of my fellow teammates. If anyone would like to argue the fact that he has not been involved with his team during the off season I would also like to correct that because he has in fact been involved for many years. I first played for this coach when I was in 7th grade, he gave me the opportunity to play with the High School softball team during their summer league season (a league that is no longer in place any more due to the overwhelming amount of traveling teams around the area) .He drove us twice a week out to sites such as Glenbrook south, Lakeforest, Stevenson and other field locations. As I recall he also spent a summer in the “unpaid” position of coaching and helping to launch a local travel team by the name of the Waukegan Dawgs, a team in which I also played on . Bottom line is that it is very rare that you will find a coach in which of whom every parent agrees with every coaching decision made on and off the field but that does not make him in any way shape or form a bad coach nor undeserving of his position leading the Waukegan Softball team. I have no doubt in my mind that he has every bit of knowledge and experience to lead a team to a state championship if the right group of girls come along but state championships are not just handed out they take building a strong program and that it what I believe this coach is doing. You have given no concrete reason as to why he is undeserving of his position the only thing that you have proved here is that you are one of parents who are unable to let a coach do the job that he has been hired to do and is very well qualified for simply because you don’t agree with every coaching decision that has been made. This coach respects his girls, is constantly pushing them to new heights, and is more passionate about the game than many coaches I have come by. I think that what are you doing to this coach is far blown out of proportion and very much just plain ridiculous.