To Coach Over,

I'll keep this short, sweet and complicated. You make doing track exciting and even though you aren't my direct coach, you make it fun. So I decided to write about you to tell you how much I appreciate you. My path with coaches have always been rocky and believe me, I've had a lot of coaches. A lot of rocky path ways that I struggled to walk down. You are the best distance coach that I know. It has nothing to do with your expertise, or what you say. It is how you are and any athlete would be lucky to have you. Growing up, my coaches pushed me, told me not to slack, and got angry with me when I screwed up. Yet, I still believe they had that genuine hope for me. What sets you apart from them is that you will never have to tell me that I am screwing up. Or work hard to be great because your sincerity makes me want to do better by itself. Thank you for being a friend, a coach, a mentor, and literally one of my rocks at SHU. You will never coach me, you don't have to care about me but you do. You don't have to tell me that you care, I just can look at you and tell. Mainly because you are a genuine nice person who I know will always have my best interest at heart educationally, physically, and athletically, I know that you will always be a dear friend to me. One day my best friend years from now when I'm a lawyer and living my dreams. And I will thank you over and over again(Get it, OVER OVER), because you reassure my dreams are palpable. You put up with my craziness and you support me, even when you have 10 distant runners on the track. Thanks for ending up at SHU and being my coach.

My Best Friend is my Coach

-From Teal