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Coach Collins Book Report
For my teammates it was a athletic experience but for me it was a life lesson to be by Coach Collins. My former coach’s name is Javier Collins. He has a smaller than most men, but you knew by speaking with him that he had an equally as big heart as everyone else. I always felt like when he was telling me something that it would be important. We met last year in the high school gym for basketball workouts. The first time I met him I thought I wouldn’t like him and that I wouldn’t keep coming around for long. But later the relationship I feel we had was like a uncle and nephew type relationship. He would give me advice on almost anything. He would also be on my case when I messed up or started slipping on grades. Like last year I had a english class that I would fall asleep in almost every day… until the teacher told on me. Then, the next day it happened again and my coach happened to be in the building when my teacher emailed him to tell on me again, he ended up coming to my classroom and I woke up with him standing in front of me with that same mean face he made and mastered and he told me that if I fell asleep in class again that I would be cut from the team, and from that day forth I didn’t fall asleep... ( in that class). One day after practice I told my coach I …show more content…
Right now he isn’t a coach at my school but I still speak to him and address him as coach when I see him around the halls. You should also if you don’t already, get a mentor or keep contact with the person you consider to be your mentor because you never know what it will help you become. In the future I plan to be a successful physical trainer/therapist and I wanna study this field because I know how important it is to other people like it is to me to be stronger and more fit. I am currently a student I high school still trying to better my education and

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