As a football coach, and as a father, i spend a lot of time, trying to figure out how to motivate kids to do the best job they can. I want them to be courageous. I want them to be tough. I want them to caring. I want them to love their teammates, and families, and friends.
So often, in sports we as coaches search for role models to talk with kids about. We look at professional athletes, business people, military men and women, etc. We try to show how these people handle adversity. How they treat other people. How hard they work, and how tough they are.
But once in a while we get to see an example of that close up, and close to home. Early this year, one of our upcoming senior mothers, Amy Brady, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I have had the privilege, over the years to have coached all three of her sons, and watch her raise them to be fine young men. Over the years i have seen her support them, discipline them, challenge them, and love them. Raising a child, as any parent knows, is both a blessing and a battle. She has won a lot of battles.
And now, approaching the final year of her youngest sons educational career, she has one more battle to fight. But this time, it is a different type of opponent.
Since her diagnosis, i have watched 1st hand, how Amy has modeled all the qualities i would want my players and children to have when faced with adversity.
Amy has courageously continued to work, because she could never let down her family, and the children she cares for everyday at her job.
Amy has shown unimaginable toughness. Staring down her adversity. Making Cancer understand, that it will never dictate the terms in which she will live her life.
Amy has been caring and loving. I pick my children up from her house, and i know that they are safe, and that they felt loved all day long when I couldn’t be with them.
Tomorrow Amy has surgery.
Amy, the ENFB Staff, Boosters, and Team want you to know how proud we are to have you as a part of our family. We will all be praying for you, and we will all be here to support you as you recover.
A few years ago, amidst similar adversity, Chuck Pagano told his Colt’s team that he had a vision, and he had circumstances. He was going to live the vision. I know that one of your visions is to stand with Hayden next year on Senior Night, and i can’t wait to see it happen.
#AmyStrong
So often, in sports we as coaches search for role models to talk with kids about. We look at professional athletes, business people, military men and women, etc. We try to show how these people handle adversity. How they treat other people. How hard they work, and how tough they are.
But once in a while we get to see an example of that close up, and close to home. Early this year, one of our upcoming senior mothers, Amy Brady, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I have had the privilege, over the years to have coached all three of her sons, and watch her raise them to be fine young men. Over the years i have seen her support them, discipline them, challenge them, and love them. Raising a child, as any parent knows, is both a blessing and a battle. She has won a lot of battles.
And now, approaching the final year of her youngest sons educational career, she has one more battle to fight. But this time, it is a different type of opponent.
Since her diagnosis, i have watched 1st hand, how Amy has modeled all the qualities i would want my players and children to have when faced with adversity.
Amy has courageously continued to work, because she could never let down her family, and the children she cares for everyday at her job.
Amy has shown unimaginable toughness. Staring down her adversity. Making Cancer understand, that it will never dictate the terms in which she will live her life.
Amy has been caring and loving. I pick my children up from her house, and i know that they are safe, and that they felt loved all day long when I couldn’t be with them.
Tomorrow Amy has surgery.
Amy, the ENFB Staff, Boosters, and Team want you to know how proud we are to have you as a part of our family. We will all be praying for you, and we will all be here to support you as you recover.
A few years ago, amidst similar adversity, Chuck Pagano told his Colt’s team that he had a vision, and he had circumstances. He was going to live the vision. I know that one of your visions is to stand with Hayden next year on Senior Night, and i can’t wait to see it happen.
#AmyStrong
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