As I was finishing up at the doctors office 🏬 today, I saw a friendly and familiar face, Mrs Laura Arnold.
Like many people on The Hill, Laura is amped up about the season opening 🏈🏈🏈 game at Tommy Thompson Field on Friday night !
The flyer outlines the fun they have planned, and being that the great folks at the Laurel Fork Tri Area clinic are the ones trying hard to keep me upright, I’m more than happy to share.
Over the past two decades of baseball ⚾️ at West Virginia Tech University, we have roughly a dozen or so athletes that have made the transition from a player on our roster to a member of the coaching staff. In fact, two of our current leaders fall into that category.
The biggest obstacle they face is the degree of difficulty involved when you go from being a senior leader / loveable teammate to someone who has authority and is tasked with holding people accountable.
One of the common denominators between long-time Head Coach Cindy Edwards and myself is living in a realistic world. Edwards would not put anyone in a position where they could not contribute to her program.
The fact that Laiken knows and understands the sport of volleyball has been on display for years here on The Hill, so that’s not breaking News to anyone. But the transition from being a player to a coach is simply not an easy transition, certainly not at her age.
One of the things that the youth of today could really use is more people in their lives who are worthy of looking up to. We need a little less Tik – Tok and influencers and a bit more of homegrown success stories.
Pointing 👉 in the direction of someone who is so young and referring to him or her in that manner already might be a bit much, but let’s circle back to what Coach and I have in common. You don’t put someone in a position where they don’t have the skill set to succeed.
Yes, this is a softball capsule, so to not add a softball picture or two wouldn’t make sense.
Six young ladies played their final game as a Lady Cavalier a few months ago. Each of them have now embarked on the next leg of their journey. In the case of Laiken Burnett, it should be an incredible one.
Respect for her parents, admiration for her Big Brother and protector of her little sis are just a few things that pop in regards to the middle child of Mr & Mrs Glenn Burnett.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Today is simply the next opportunity to enjoy life, so get out there and do just that !
Have a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏
One day, after celebrating her 65th birthday 🎂, Vickey Ritchie was back in the Gymnasium at Hillsville Elementary School, acting like, well, acting like a dinosaur 🦕.
Today was our fourth straight Sunday together, and each week, the folks joining us are different. Different in numbers and in personality with our mission being to make sure that whoever shows up feels like they are part of something special.
Today, the number of participants was 22, same as last time, just a different 22. We celebrated two birthdays, and I truly believe that the energy was as high as any that I’ve heard on a non-Classic Sunday afternoon.
I consider it an honor 🎖 to be a wingman to such an incredible person who is also trying hard to do God’s work!
Thank you, Samantha, for your efforts in framing the day !
While all four of these young ladies were absolutely amazing to spend time with over the weekend, the one on the far left has agreed to cross over to the ” Light Side.” Thank you to Star Wars for that play on words.
In hopes of protecting her identity going forward, we have to assign her a catchy code name – Agent Way Cool Little Sis is my first choice, but it’s a work in progress.
See each year the search for folks that get what the goal is here because we lose contributors for a number of reasons.
The goal is pretty straightforward, treat everyone equally and set out to make people smile, doing so without harming anyone in doing so.
A.W.C.L.S also supplied a nugget in my search for five minutes with Erin Gibson. Turns out that the two of them were on a volleyball 🏐 court together while she was just a freshman.
First things first, I wasn’t aware that Erin played volleyball, and that is something that Cindy Edwards will have to explain later.
Trying to make the world 🌎 a better place for everyone is hard work, but it’s the mission that I am on.
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