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Sports
October
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J ennifer S itton
When I have a question
about college or feel
overwhelmed about
everything going on in my
life, I have someone I can go
to— my coach. The mark of a
good coach is someone who
can teach and mentor their
athletes about something other
than their sport. I have been
lucky enough throughout my
years of organized athletics to
have played for some excellent
coaches, but not everyone is as
fortunate as me.
Tough times may be upon
us, but that doesn't mean
all morals and ethics can be
flushed down the drain. High
school coaches around the
Portland Metro area have
received more news coverage
in past months for bad
behavior than all their student-
athletes combined. As a high
school athlete, it's frightening
that my peers’ coaches are
ending up in jail, losing their
jobs and being questionable
influences on their players
because they are too stupid to
stop and think!
In February, David
Adelman, Lincoln High
School's Varsity Boys
PLAY by the
NUMBERS
Consecutive
league victories
won by the
Varsity Volleyball
Team before loss
to Lakeridge.
year-old football
rivalry—the old
est west of the
Mississippi—
with Oregon City.
Basketball Coach was arrested
on drunken driving charges for
the second time in four years.
Disregarding the allegations,
the school allowed Adelman
to stay on as head basketball
coach and continue influencing
their youth.
Next came the baseball
coach who thought he would
enrich his high school players'
trip to San Francisco with
a jaunt to a local strip club.
Michael Todd, Lincoln High
School's Varsity Baseball
Coach, was accused of taking
his teenage players to the club
during the school-sanctioned
trip. Todd resigned once the
allegations were made public.
Then the Lincoln football-
coaches, enjoying their
"coaches' night out" ended
their evening in the company
of Portland police officers.
It seems one of their former
players pinched a woman
waiting for the MAX and
when he was questioned
by officers, the coaches
"verbally interfered" with
the investigation. All three
were intoxicated at the time.
Shocking, I know. The district
has since fired them.
Most recently, Kathryn
Adelman-Naro (Yes, she's the
brother of aforementioned
David Adelman.) resigned as
Jesuit Girls’ Varsity Basketball
Coach after receiving her
second DUII in less than a year.
While she taught her girls a
valuable lesson in resigning,
I'm sure those 13 girls will
remember waking up to their
coach's disheveled mug shot
in the morning paper for many
years to come.
While some people will
be politically correct and say
everyone makes mistakes
and that we need to give
them a second chance, I'll be
sitting there rolling my eyes,
wondering how these adults
can look themselves in the
mirror. They knew how much
their players depended on
them. They knew that most
of their players held them in
very high esteem. And they
also knew what they were
doing when they made their
respective poor decisions.
Some tried to make amends
by resigning, but what of the
Varsity Sport
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coaches who are allowed to
stay or who may be reinstated
after being gone for just a
year? How do you make your
players sign a contract that
they won't drink when you
were just in the paper for
receiving your second DUII?
How do you look their parents
in the eye and tell them you
will do your best to keep them
out of trouble, when you can't
even take care of yourself?
Maybe it was a coincidence;
maybe it's a sign of the times.
All I know is that as an
athlete, I entirely respect my
coaches and I look to them for
guidance. I want every athlete
to have that same mentoring
Boys' and Girls' Cross Country Teams are in the running
for a top spot in the Three Rivers League
imk.
“Both the boys' and girls' teams
are doing very well. They're
looking very good with Dis
tricts and State coming up.”
—John Linman, assistant
coach
games
Oct. 2 8 - 1 p.m.
Districts @
Clackamas
Community
College
Photo by Tracie Kreiiwitz. StopActionMemories
Taylor West, junior, crosses the finish line in first place, just edging
out Kevin Kavanaugh, Beaverton freshman at the Tualatin Invite on
Sept. 9. Boys' Cross Country is been undefeated this season and is
ranked third in state.
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and positive influence in their
lives.
Something needs to be
done. Either coaches need to
step up, do their jobs and be
a role model to the formative
teenagers in their care, or
athletic directors and principals
need to step in and make a
change, because it can't go on
like this. I can't stand to see
another headline with the
words coach and arrest next
to each other. I just can't.
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