They taught you things that you applied to your own life, but you never really thought about where you learned them. Sometimes, they were your surrogate father or mother, there for you when maybe your own parents weren't. A person like Ernie Goshorn, the longtime cross country coach at Lynnwood High School. Goshorn was all of the above and more. If you were to quiz every boy or girl who ran for him, you'd get hundreds of reasons why he had such an impact on their lives.
Good coaches do that.
They have an impact. And Ernie Goshorn was one of the best. It ended last fall, more than three decades after it began. This spring, he is again helping his good friend and longtime coaching associate, Duane Lewis, with the Royals track team. In June, he will bid adieu to the school where he has spent the last 32 years.