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06.09.10 PersonalNDHS Softball Champs |
C ongratulations to the the Lady Knights softball team from North Davidson for winning the state championship 4A softball tournament held in Raleigh, NC this past weekend! It's not an easy task, winning a state championship; it takes years and years of preparation. Many of the girls have played together since they were seven years old ... dreaming of a day when they would finally wear a ND Black Knight uniform. Coaches have spent hours upon hours sitting at softball clinics learning from the best how to give these kids the tools needed to compete on such a high level. Volunteers from the community have given their precious time and resources to insure the program has all that is necessary... coming from their jobs and meeting at the ball field to put up a new backstop or erect a viewing platform in center field. Others, that are not quite as handy at building, bring cookies or pastries to sweeten everyone up... folks working together with one common interest... "the kids". You really can't say enough about a community that works together like this. Step back and give yourselves a big hand!
With all that's going on around girls softball, there has to be some leadership somewhere. Someone to rally the troops, someone who sees the big picture, that never ever gives up, that takes the lumps and keeps on fightin'. That someone is my bru-in-law, Coach Lambros. I can't write this article without saying how proud I am of him, and, although I know he doesn't like the spotlight on him, he's just going to have to suck it up a minute. I know what the girls mean to him and I know how much it hurts when he sees them do less than their best. He makes being a leader look so easy that you almost wonder if he really knows the depth of the impact he has on those around him. What makes a good leader? Take a shepherd for example. He lives with his sheep day and night sleeping with the herd through the heat and the rain. He never leaves them no matter what happens. He smells like his sheep and that's why they follow. It's not because they are afraid of his staff, it's because they are secure in his presence and that he doesn't live above them but with them. A lot of folks look at bru-in-law and see him as someone who teaches young people to hit and catch a ball, but those of us who know him best know that it goes much deeper than that. Beyond all the teaching and coaching he sees a young person's full of potential. He feels responsible to prepare her for a game of softball because that's his job but, in his heart it's his mission to prepare her for the game of life. "Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, when it does be prepared to run the bases." Rick Maksian |
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