I Want to Meet This Kid…
One of the great things about working in a place like All Sport Academy is working with kids. I was talking to a bunch of the guys that came in today from North Brunswick for their rec evaluations and I commented to someone how much fun it is working with young kids. He says to me, “You have to love kids to work in a place like this…” I spent the better part of the morning wandering around chatting with the guys (they were between 7 and 12 years old) about their positions, how exciting it was that baseball is here, what their favorite teams are, who their favorite players are, etc.
So, I’ve had a few conversations today about kids and what’s important to them, how they think, what they like and then I read this article:
Connecticut Boy Applies for WVU Football Job
You have to read the article to appreciate what this kid did. It’s really amazing and I hope I can keep track of him to see where he ends up coaching. That’s a young man with a future…
Hats off to the Mike Garrison, President at West Virginia University, for responding to him. It was a simple gesture, but that one simple gesture made a kid that was already a fan, a fan for life. Nice work Mr. Garrison, for a University President to take those couple of minutes to respond to Joshua was a really amazing thing.
Don’t you just love stories like this? Sure beats steroids, robberies, forged birth certificates, parents fighting officials and coaches and teams spying on other teams doesn’t it?