I have also had a passion for sports has been a life-long one that began virtually before I could walk, from stories that my parents have informed me of. I was involved in football, baseball and basketball in high school, and was the recipient of various awards and accolades as a member of these sports. I still play many sports in my free time as I participate in a few basketball leagues, play slow pitch softball in the summers and have even taken up the sport of volleyball, which I am getting quite good at now. After I graduated from high school, I immediately started volunteering as a youth basketball coach for a sixth grade boys team and have coached just about every year since. That group of boys are now seniors at RTR High School and have only lost one game this season. After I coached boys for two years, I started dating the woman I was recently married to. She, of course has younger sisters that played basketball, which led to me coaching girls basketball first at the fourth grade level and then at the sixth grade level last year. I was not sure what to expect when coaching a girl's team for the first time, but was pleasantly surprised with how similar they are to coach and how well they responded to my coaching.
This year, the coaching positions for the seventh and eighth grade girls basketball teams at RTR were open, and some of the parents of the girls I coached last year recommended my wife and I as good candidates for the position. We were contacted by the principal and before I knew it, I had my first paid coaching position, as I had been volunteering when coaching the younger age groups. My wife is also an accomplished volleyball coach, as she recently took her Junior Olympics team to the National Junior Olympics Tournament this past summer. We have had a successful year with both groups this year as our seventh grade has a 5-3 record and our eighth grade has a 7-2 record. We only have two games left this season, as we play Canby tomorrow night and Tracy-Milroy-Balaton next week. We are planning on taking them to a few tournaments once the season has concluded as well. I hope that I can continue coaching in the future, as it works well with my career in agriculture, which will keep me busiest in the summer and early fall while basketball takes place during the winter months.
This year, the coaching positions for the seventh and eighth grade girls basketball teams at RTR were open, and some of the parents of the girls I coached last year recommended my wife and I as good candidates for the position. We were contacted by the principal and before I knew it, I had my first paid coaching position, as I had been volunteering when coaching the younger age groups. My wife is also an accomplished volleyball coach, as she recently took her Junior Olympics team to the National Junior Olympics Tournament this past summer. We have had a successful year with both groups this year as our seventh grade has a 5-3 record and our eighth grade has a 7-2 record. We only have two games left this season, as we play Canby tomorrow night and Tracy-Milroy-Balaton next week. We are planning on taking them to a few tournaments once the season has concluded as well. I hope that I can continue coaching in the future, as it works well with my career in agriculture, which will keep me busiest in the summer and early fall while basketball takes place during the winter months.
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