Like I thought it would. I had high hopes for this past weekend. I was going to find something to do and relax and have a good time.
While I was at brunch on Friday, I got a call from my little sister. The first time she has picked up the phone to call me (outside her engagement announcement) in over five months. And it was to tell me that my high school track coach had been arrested. For sexual assault. For having a sexual relationship with a student.
And that was the beginning of the end of my weekend. I was very close with my coach while I was in high school. He was someone that I looked up to and could go to for advice. We kept in touch after I graduated and when I lived in PA I would stop by the high school all the time to chat and to train and occasionally help with some of his athletes. After I moved away, we still kept in touch.
I have to say. I just did not see this coming. Would never have thought him capable of this. And while I firmly believe in innocent until proven guilty, the amount of information and detail in the story since it broke is pretty damning.
While I was at brunch on Friday, I got a call from my little sister. The first time she has picked up the phone to call me (outside her engagement announcement) in over five months. And it was to tell me that my high school track coach had been arrested. For sexual assault. For having a sexual relationship with a student.
And that was the beginning of the end of my weekend. I was very close with my coach while I was in high school. He was someone that I looked up to and could go to for advice. We kept in touch after I graduated and when I lived in PA I would stop by the high school all the time to chat and to train and occasionally help with some of his athletes. After I moved away, we still kept in touch.
I have to say. I just did not see this coming. Would never have thought him capable of this. And while I firmly believe in innocent until proven guilty, the amount of information and detail in the story since it broke is pretty damning.
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