Thoughts on Sun Oct 26th

We did our presentation this morning on minority recruitment and retention. I didn't talk about the value of having a minortiy coach on staff. I am the head wrestling coach at Davenport Central and am lucky enough to have an african-american as my top assistant. He is an educated, hard working man with solid, middle-class values. I have seen him deal with and transform all the athetes in our wrestling room, but in particular our african-american wrestlers. He is able to relate to and deal with these athletes in ways that I cannot. He can talk to them and get through to them in ways I cannot. I am so grateful to have him as part of my program and I let him know that.