A coach will impact more young people in a season than the average person in a lifetime

Billy Graham

There are very few people that I can say that have impacted me throughout my whole entire lifetime. One person that I can say that has the biggest impact on me, is my coach JT. He has coached with my dad ever since my dad became a coach and JT has been like a grandpa to me. I have truly been blessed to know him on a personal level.

JT has more knowledge in his head than an average computer and can virtually recite any statistic. JT has been coaching for over 50 years and luckily I had the privilege of getting to know him for 19 of them. JT isn’t my grandpa, but I see him like he is. I used to always go to his house when I was younger and he would babysit my siblings and I. JT has taught many lessons on how to run better, how to be a better person, and how to be a better leader. We have been through a lot together. We’ve experienced huge accomplishments and also undergone huge hardships. One of the saddest days of my life is the day that I found out that his wife, Nancy, had died of pancreatic cancer. Nancy is the one who started the website “Gosparta.com”, which is where I have gotten all these picture son my blogs from. Because of her, our school is able to look back at memories and remember all the good times we’ve lived through. We trekked through the bad and have grown stronger together through it. we still go every Halloween to trick or treat from JT even though we don’t go anymore. Everyone has a JT in their life, that helps them through life. I don’t know what I’ll do when JT leaves this world, but until then, I will always make the most of the time we have together.