Coaching

Last week while I was sitting in my room I received a phone call from one of my former baseball coaches at Turkey Valley.  He called me to see if I wanted to be a basketball coach with him at Hudson High School.  He told me that I would be the Head JV coach and would just have to coach the JV and can come to Varsity games if I wanted too.  I would also get paid without having to sign a contract.  It was an exciting conversation that we had and I told him that I would let my parents know and would think about it and let him know later in the week.  When I told my parents they were happy about the news but they told me that I would have to find two weekends out of my study time to get my coaching authorization since I didn't have one yet.  They also said that I would need a car to drive back and forth to practice and that I wouldn't get home from practices and games until very late at night.  We also weren't sure how it would fit in with my baseball schedule.  So after two days of thinking I called my coach and told him that I had to turn down the offer since I wouldn't have any time to get my coaching authorization and wasn't sure how it would work with baseball.  I also told him that I wanted to see how my first year at college would go and see if I would have time to fit coaching in with my schedule.  He was very understanding and told me that I would have plenty of other opportunities to coach and that I should get my coaching authorization right away.  I told him I would and that if he ever needed an assistant again in either basketball or baseball that I would accept his offer.  It was very exciting to know that at 18 I can be coaching already at the high school level and I know that I have coaches who will be looking to ask me for a job.