Womans Coaching

 I was sitting on a club lacrosse field, sweating, and my club director, Steve, came up to me after the practice. He tells me what your intentions are with lacrosse, and I told him that since I was young, I wanted to take it as seriously as possible. He mentioned the idea of coming to The Governor's Academy. My mom and I were thrilled when he mentioned this. Push came to shove, and we discussed more and more about it, and I was beyond excited for the opportunity and chance he was gonna give me. He helped me get into the school, and I will forever remember that. My favorite coach to this day is my dad.

Anyway, I showed up at an event before high school at Governor's Academy started, and I walked to the hockey rink and got dropped off there. Mrs. Barcomb said I'm the athletic director. And I didn't judge that she was a female, but I knew she could possibly be an excellent athletic director. We watched a video about women coaching, and it reminded me of how many great male coaches there are out in the world, and it gave me the thought that I never had a female coach. And what I was getting at, and will sound bland, was that it would be pretty cool to have a woman's coach to change it up a bit.

I like to say I get along better with females than males, and that makes me think, would it be different if I were to have a coach? I mean, my mom loves sports, and I bet there are plenty of ladies out there as well. The controversial topic is that males rule sports; girls or boys' events, there are always the ones coaching the events. So, learning about a bunch of females with ambitions, I saw a revolution of women taking up the sport and spreading their knowledge. 

The wisest people I have met are #1 my dad, and I'm not just saying that because he is a male. But #2 is my mom,m and I don't think she could have any chance to be ahead just because of the way my dad thought and my reconciliation of memories around him. He wasn't intelligent when it came to solving 6th grade algebra, but he was with many, many other things that are unexplainable. My mom,m however, is my protector and mentor. She talks crap to me all the time to motivate me in the sport of lacrosse and I hear it like a religious group every sunday. She comes across as white Michael Jordan's mom, while I'm not Michael Jordan, Im Joe DiMella.

My mom's favorite sport to watch is hockey, and her favorite part is the male coach Herb Brooks' speech. She loves females,s but she knows a good moment when she sees one,e and Herb Brooks is engrained in her memory after what he said to Team USA before the young guys played the soviets. I can't relate to having a girl coach, but I can relate to the fact that my mom is an even better coach with anything I do in my life. And she rubbed off on my oldest brother Luke, to motivate the sport of lacrosse.