I think there are some events in our lives that words definitely can't do justice to. For me one such event was being a part of Washington University's Womens Baskeball Team. Tonite was alumni night. It also marked Coach Fahey's 20 season coaching the bears.
This lady is amazing. I really don't know how to do her justice. She was so good at what she did. She made families out of perfect strangers, people who would never dream of getting along otherwise. She reached the top of every category of excellence possible in her field, and never lost sight of the fact that we were just college kids, so book-smart and so life-stupid, and somehow, never forgot that it was indeed, only a game. Just putting a ball through a hole, and keeping someone else from putting a ball in a hole. That's why it doesn't make sense, that the sum of it's parts don't add up to the whole of what it was. Why she chose to treat us like her kids instead of like her slaves. She didn't have to. Most coaches are all about the win, they don't have to explain their choices, but ours always did. She was fair and honest and one of the most moral people I have ever met, and still got the wins. (458 to be exact). I just love celebrating people who "do it right". It can be done.
Coach, I salute you.
2 comments:
I'd say Mr. Rogers would rank up there with your coach, too. He had the longevity, that's for sure. And he never complained when they left his house for never-never land, or whatever that was called. What an unselfish leader he was!
hear hear
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