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Each May, hundreds of local athletes graduate high school. We asked the coaches who have worked with those kids what makes it so difficult to watch those players graduate each year. Here's what some had to say:
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Each May, hundreds of local athletes graduate high school. We asked the coaches who have worked with those kids what makes it so difficult to watch those players graduate each year. Here's what some had to say:
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Kevin Cook
Aledo Softball
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It's like having my own children move away. You spend time encouraging and nurturing their fragile lives and then watching them mature into beautiful and successful young ladies. It's also rewarding when you see them in later years graduating from college or moving up into the corporate world and starting new families with little future sports stars. It's tough on Senior Night, but so rewarding when they come back and say, "Thank you coach for what you did for me."
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James Mavroulis
Boswell Baseball
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When you spend as much time with kids as coaches do, you form bonds and relationships that can last a lifetime. You must know that many times coaches are glad for graduation to come along also, but for the most part though, kids that have impacted your life are missed just as much as we miss family.
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Tommy Brakel
North Crowley Basketball
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I think you put so much time into each of these young men that it is emotionally tough to see them go. It is not just the points/rebounds/assists that you see walk across the stage, it is the young men that you have spent the last four years with, helping them grow up and hopefully become young men who will be successful at whatever they aspire to do after they walk across that stage.
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Niki Gilley
Southlake Carroll Basketball
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Each group is so special and unique; no two groups are alike. It is hard seeing them go because of all of the wonderful memories you have with them. It is exciting, waiting to see the awesome things that they will go off and accomplish on their own.
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