Someone who has had a big impact on my life was my football coach. His name is PJ Book, Of course no one would refer to him as that unless they wanted a few extra sprints after practice. Instead he was always referred to as “Coach Book”. I only knew Coach Book for about 4 years, but during those years he had the biggest impact on me and was a huge role model.
Going into my freshman year everyone was afraid of him, and we all knew what a tough coach he was. Our freshman team was separate from the junior varsity and varsity team. Coach Book coached varsity but he would still come watch the JV and even freshman at their games. He always wanted to get a head start to see who he would get to work with next year. This would make everyone nervous …show more content…
This made everyone else and I laugh. We joked with Robbie about how many sprints he was going to have to run at practice for the innocent comment. Its safe to say that nobody really talked to him much outside of football.
By the end of the season everyone had a much better relationship with coach Book including me. He had started to compliment me during practice.“Nice hit Reed!” “Good block!” Coach said. Everyone knew if he complimented you then he respected and liked you.
As the season was drawing to a close you could tell coach Book was having more fun. He was laughing a little more and made practice fun. He didn't yell at us much, because of all our hard work and practice, we didn't make many mistakes. A lot of the time he would even joke around with us during practice. It was almost as if Coach Book was turning into more of a friend than a frightening football coach.
It wasn't until the very last game of my senior season that coach Book really surprised me. Our season was wasn't the best but we had some played very talented teams. Nonetheless the coaches were still proud of us and knew we had worked hard all season. My teammates and I came out of the locker room and said our thank you’s to the coaches for everything they'd done for us. When I got to coach book he hugged me and
Going into my freshman year everyone was afraid of him, and we all knew what a tough coach he was. Our freshman team was separate from the junior varsity and varsity team. Coach Book coached varsity but he would still come watch the JV and even freshman at their games. He always wanted to get a head start to see who he would get to work with next year. This would make everyone nervous …show more content…
This made everyone else and I laugh. We joked with Robbie about how many sprints he was going to have to run at practice for the innocent comment. Its safe to say that nobody really talked to him much outside of football.
By the end of the season everyone had a much better relationship with coach Book including me. He had started to compliment me during practice.“Nice hit Reed!” “Good block!” Coach said. Everyone knew if he complimented you then he respected and liked you.
As the season was drawing to a close you could tell coach Book was having more fun. He was laughing a little more and made practice fun. He didn't yell at us much, because of all our hard work and practice, we didn't make many mistakes. A lot of the time he would even joke around with us during practice. It was almost as if Coach Book was turning into more of a friend than a frightening football coach.
It wasn't until the very last game of my senior season that coach Book really surprised me. Our season was wasn't the best but we had some played very talented teams. Nonetheless the coaches were still proud of us and knew we had worked hard all season. My teammates and I came out of the locker room and said our thank you’s to the coaches for everything they'd done for us. When I got to coach book he hugged me and