My Service

My service to my community has been a life long endeavor. I coached Deb Stars girls softball at 2 different age groups. Was I the best coach? I’m sure not. But after I stopped coaching a coworker stopped me and told me, “Half of this year’s All Star team is made up of your last year’s team”.

I coached boys and girls CYO basketball while not being a church member at either parish. I also help start a vegetable garden to supplement there soup kitchen at one if the parishes. Cooked spaghetti dinners for youth groups. The list is extensive, far more extensive than my family members that were actually church members.

The accomplishment I’m most proud of has gone unnoticed. The Union Endicott School District’s home course and training facility for the school’s Cross Country teams. With the willing cooperation of the soccer club, I as well as coach Larry Hynes and a couple of other dads we designed, installed and maintained what I believe to be the finest X/C facility in Section 4.

So then I decided all the local kids needed a local summer camp. The Running Tigers XC Camp was born. It grew to 65 kids from 8 different school districts who wanted to improve there running in mid July. Lectures on nutrition, physical therapy, collegiate opportunities and local motivational speakers. Then a work out based solely on conditioning.

Of course, what’s a camp without a race. So, The Running Tigers XC race held the Saturday morning after camp. Open to the public at the course.

If anyone from the Union Endicott School District happens to read this, if the XC course at Ann McGuinness School isn’t named after coach Larry Hynes, it should be. He was as fine a man as I ever met.

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