The Gift of Coaching by Rams Coach Jack Heath
source Gloucester Catholic Cross Country
Courtesy of Runners Gazette Magazine 
Jack Heath, January, 2007
“We’re following in your footsteps. Cause that’s where your footsteps go.”
Ian Hunter- “Following in your footsteps”
However, one thing I had learned from
my coach, Browning Ross is you have to be there for the long haul— a
coach must stay through the (mostly) lean and sometimes boom years. But
keep coaching no matter what, because you never know. I was in my last
year of college at Rowan (then Glassboro State) finishing up my last
season of cross country as captain of the team when Browning asked me
if I’d like to help him coach at Gloucester Catholic, my alma mater
where he had coached me. “No thanks!” I said. “I just want to run; I
can’t see high school kids listening to me anyway, so I’d rather just
concentrate on my own running.” Browning nodded in what I thought was
agreement.
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