five years in different roles as a parent as a youth coach as a baseball coach and some other coach and positions of a little school and also here type school and i was also i've been and that's like ministry or peter's so it's my on that topic of qualities of a coach but we're going to hit on some other areas also so let's start with phil we'll go around this way tell us a little bit about your participation athletics well student here at peters township high school that em and high school i just played soccer and i've played the past three years and like you i just play volleyball across and softball but and high school i chose to stick with soccer  lucas i have been a varsity wrestler and merciful ball player and high school and i actually started out by just playing soccer baseball and basketball which is completely different than what i do now so great so i have serious questions and will store off with the first one i like for you think about all the coaches that you've had throughout your athletic career and what were some of the qualities you could talk about positive and negative too and it was always like communication like the player communicating with the coach back and forth and letting him know he can trust each other it's like a mutual thing like trust like you can put him or he's going to put you in a position to win and he's going to trust you do the right thing on the field  i agree with phil i think communication is key but something like as i've had in the past for a little bit more intense and i think it's better to just have good communication and i really think at the level probably the best approach is more of a not as intense approach and like phil said communication and really teaching the kids and helping them to become better but also emphasizing that they have fun in their  and as i got i tire in the levels of i thought actually got more intense which i think is the appropriate thing to do because it's more competitive and your coach is really trying to make you the best you can be  sometimes very understanding is like it depends on the moment and situation but like they were always open communication like you talk to them like an m r i sinker it's nice to hear he gets really intense and really in a notches but like you can still talk to him and discuss like strategies with him i would just say the same thing communication i think is what you need to have as a coach and like your athletes need to be able to talk to you so i think you need to be receptive but also  him to leave here i think definitely at the high school it's a lot more intense and i mean the coaches of a lot of pressure on them they're really fighting for their jobs and to make their team successful and i really think they do a good job of being intense but also listening to you and helping you become a better player good thinking about all the different styles and personal qualities that you've mentioned which ones did you enjoy playing for the do better when you're doing good they're mine and you that there's always room for improvement yeah i like it when the coaches communicate with you whether you're doing good or bad so i would just say having not relationship with your coach and being able to talk to them i think probably the best coaching that i've really been a coach that really cares about you as an individual and making you a better player ever better half lee and just getting in the next level because in this kind of you've you've touched on a couple these things in this next question but when thinking about a coach relationship what words would you use that would be important with the development of that positive trust you to help him win in do the right thing on the field i would say trust and support because you need to know that they respect you and that you respect them a really think the most important thing as a coach really cares for you in your individual but also as the whole team and building your success was let's change topics little bit when you're younger what were some of the reasons for your involvement in sports why did you get involved and why did you stay involved my dad pushed me a lot like in wrestling he got me involved in wrestling to see wrestling all through his high school and college career that's where i got involved in baseball i just started i loved baseball from the start and that's what i how i got involved i would say my parents they pushed me to do sports and also i watch my brother and he really enjoyed it and i think he kind of made me more competitive i think  support of you through the years right yeah yeah i was going to brother and sisters games and i think yes good to suckle bit about some of the reasons why you continue staying involved athletics and what are some of your goals now all daddy's stuff and now in high school it's like you're independent and you feel like the team needs you is important in baseball i've always just loved playing baseball i want to get to the next level first soccer i've met like a lot of good people over the years when i got to high school as a goal to make the larceny team and i just continued that throughout the years with football my dad was a football player so that's kind of the main reason why i stuck with and i really liked i just enjoy the sport a lot and wrestling actually started it to help me with football and i just kind of fell in love with just continue to keep going and i really just try to be the best that i can ever support and to support and we kind of touched on this a little bit but i'd like to to get back to it but looking back at your participation sports and now being successful high school athletes what were the differences between the youth level and what you're dealing with now is i swear it's i mean it's like the pace of the game and the  intensity in high school it's a lot more it's about more about winning in you through the having fun and teaching you the fundamentals of the game now it's about taking his fundamentals and applying the playing field yeah i agree it's high school was a lot more intense than any youth program i've ever been yeah that's definitely really the main difference is intensity and i mean it's still focused for you to have fun but at the youth level that's really what it's all about and as it gets t levels it gets more and more intense about advice what voice would you give to the volunteer coaches as far as the their dedication involvement or youth program but what advice would you give them to make sure that each kid with their involvement sports have a pause of experience help them learn like if they make a mistake and you seem you can yell at them a little bit but don't go over the top and just like teach him teach him a mistake help them learn from it athlete and also to make sure they're having fun and they don't get burnt out with their sport being involved in more than one sport when you were elementary school and growing up when you make a decision to start concentrating on the sports you're currently involved football in fifth grade and that was really my favorite sport to play and from football i kind of changed my schedule around and kind of wrestling was kind of more compatible with football little bit and stars developing my skills and i actually ran track in seventh and eighth grade to kind of help me with football and i just kind of lost track a little bit and kind of more focused on football and wrestling than i probably started focusing on soccer freshman year i played lacrosse and volleyball in middle school but i kind of had to pick because there wasn't enough time my schedule so i love soccer so i just stuck with that it play on kind of getting you to where you are now staying was soccer or baseball wrestling or football wrestle your own role to play if that was more your peer i think it was a lot my parents really pushing me stick with something and then never give up on something and just kind of continue with it and continue my success i think that a lot of the friendships that i mean through soccer kind of made me want to stick with it and the coaches they just made me see that i could always push myself and get better and i wanted to with wrestling i met a lot of good people i've met a lot of good friends throughout the years and teens through middle school and like we have mostly same kids we have had middle school in my school team so it's been a fun so my parents have really been very supportive of me and whatever decision i did decide to do if i didn't play any sports or played sports they've really just always been really supportive of me and just trying to help me to become the best that i can just anything that coaches tell me to try to influence me and tell me to keep doing that but still being very supportive and my parents are really supportive they come to all my games and if i ever want to talk about anything they just been very fortunate that my mum and dad probably fall of the all the way through high school through my collegiate career and even even as a as a baseball coach they've made moment yeah a lot of times wrestling parents get really intense with wrestling and a lot of times it's really at the youth levels a lot of times where the parents are almost freaking out more than the kids well and  i think it's just i mean i think my friends have been pretty good about where they are just really supportive rather than angry at me or angry at the refs or whatever the situation is i've seen a few parents on my brother's games get thrown out and say i'm glad my parents are kind of quiet and they just sit back and watch and that's that your brother was involved in hockey yeah yeah seen a lot of yelling specially like the umpires and stuff they get really in the referees they get really mad referees they get thrown out you've all been very successful a classroom and i've had all three of them in the classroom so i can speak as a teacher there think we can see today what outstanding student athletes these three are  but what things have you had to do to balance your participation athletics while maintaining excellence in the classroom will live been times where like come home late from yourself to do homework you don't want to but you have to get done for the next day and make sure that your school work done to school works always come forth latics because if you can get it done the classroom how can you get it done on the field if you ever go on to the soccer bus it's all the girls are basically sitting there doing homework and studying for a test  the years of going to a lot of these events girls basketball and maybe done a j v game the girls studying and the same thing not only just the girls but other sports and i think that's a credit to to all our students here peters how they value their education and how they have to manage their time to to make sure that they can continue their involvement athletics stalk little bit about role models when you were glad to hear sounds like family has been very very important and sometimes when you ask young kids role models you know they're thinking that to talk about some of the professional role models and unfortunately we're models for the young rescuers and baseball players and soccer players and football players wrestlers i think it's really important to set a good example not only within your sport but also as a good student and i really think that's that's key to being successful as not only be successful in your sport but also in the classroom and i really just try to be a good example for all the setting a good example on and off the field  things i think was very very special was seeing the kids from five six seven years old coming out getting a picture with all the varsity and university players that make you feel when all the little can probably test for this one in our baseball program we always talk about you never know who's watching and we talk about that as far as maybe a college coaches but more importantly we kind of emphasize how important it is that there might be young players youth players attending a game so we talk about the right way of doing things on the field off the field and not showing frustration if you don't get enough  that most of the t say after practice do some extra pushups if you pass on stuff but make sure you do the actual stuff but the actual time yeah i definitely would say about if you want to be good at something whether it be in school or on the field you need to put  actual time and also don't be afraid to ask for help and share struggling with something just ask for help because there are a lot of people that will support you stick with just keep playing your supports and just stay with something and just keep going and practice putting in the actual work just keep striving at it and you'll become successful well i really appreciate the fact that the three of you come in this morning volunteering your time i think  trying to blow me away i think we have three great selections and hopefully the the video that will be out in our community that the volunteer coaches that have been  donating their time will listen to a lot of the things that these young people have said today and also some of the young people in our community also have the opportunity to watch today's show and take to heart what they have said their advice especially on how they need to balance at that time for putting the time in to be a quality athlete but more importantly to keep those academics up so again for speaking for the department of parks