Coach Walker Biography Essay

Everyone at some point in their life has someone that they can’t figure out or have difficulties understanding their personality and the dynamic of it. Some might figure them out eventually while others may never figure it out; however, I have that person in my life. His name is Jerry Walker. Walker was one of my middle and high school coaches. What makes Coach Walker unique is his passion to make people better. He was always willing to make himself the bad guy to make everyone else around him better.

Walker has been a major figure in my life and has played a tremendous role in it ever since middle school. Coach is the head strength coach at North Polk High School and Middle School. Walker has also been one of the high school football coaches for as long as I’ve been alive. Relationships between Coach Walk and athletes are and always have been bittersweet; many don’t care for him because he has never been your typical strength coach or guy. Many think he is too heavily invested in kids’ personal lives as well as too demanding of teenagers, leading them to quit athletics along with various other reasons. Coach is one of the most stubborn, but generous individuals I know.

Walk is in his sixties, no taller than 5’9 and couldn’t weigh any heavier than 165 pounds soaking wet, yet he is tougher than nails. …show more content…
My senior year I learned so much about him from his poor childhood where his father drank far too much to Walk’s time in the Vietnam War. He lost his wife, then raised a little girl on his own and now she lives thousands of miles away. Coach is the most generous man I know because even though he has gone through hell and back he gives so much time. Not only does he spend countless unpaid hours at my school, but he goes to Drake University every week to help volunteer in a program for adults that have problems reading and