Ron Everett

Ron Everett is the titular main overarching protagonist of the 2011 Zeno Mountain Farm short film Burning Like a Fire: The Legacy of Ron Everett. He is an out-of-luck yet wise coach who reluctantly trains a group of amateur athletes for a canoeing contest.
Ron is played by the late Ron Simonsen, who also played Captain Ron Simonsen in The Return of the Muskrats.
== Burning Like a Fire: The Legacy of Ron Everett ==
Ron Everett was the son of an athlete, who trained him in the ways of outrigger canoeing. Most importantly, his father taught to remember the Menehune, spirit guides who are his ancestors and can help him. Since then, Ron became a skilled athlete and won canoeing contests. However, his father passed away, leading Ron to lose his way.
Years later, a group of amateur athletes search for a coach to train them for an upcoming outrigger canoeing competition, unaware that Ron is noticing them through his binoculars. After getting picked on by the arrogant canoeist Chuck Waters, Alec, one of the athletes, notices Chuck tormenting Ron.
Ron sends the athletes messages to train them. The athletes train, Chuck and his team taunt them. Jeremy, an athlete, notices Ron and goes to Shrug's Bar to do research on the former athlete. Jeremy discovers that Ron was coached by his father as a kid.
Later, Jeremy and the team find Ron, realizing that he was the one sending them the coaching messages, and beg for him to train them for the canoeing contest. However, Ron reveals that he gave up canoeing a long time ago and quit. Once again, the team convinces him to coach them, but Ron threatens to quit if they don't arrive on time.
Ron unsuccessfully coaches the athletes. Later, Jeremy confronts Ron and berates him for his terrible coaching and for quitting. In a fit of rage, Ron shoves Jeremy leading his wig to nearly fall off. Ron, knowing that he has cancer, makes it clear that no one is to know about his illness. Jeremy goes to the hospital, where Ron talks to his doctor about his medications not working. Ron's doctor tells him that it may take a while for his medications to work, but also that he has to focus on being with the people he loves and doing the things he enjoys. Ron tells her that he has no one to care for, ever since his father passed away. His doctor encourages him to find someone to care about and be with, and Ron processes this by noticing people care for one another.
Reluctantly, Ron decides to coach his team and takes them to a nearby desert, where he helps them find their Menehune with the aid of a medicine woman. As the days pass, Ron trains his team and seeks his doctor for therapy. Remembering Ron's wise words, the amateur team prepares for the race and squares off against Chuck and his team. When it seems like Chuck is winning, Jeremy repeats Ron's wisdom, "Remember the Menehune!" Ron's team follows the water and wins the game. 
As the team celebrates, Ron, choosing to retire, rows away, remembering his father's wisdom and passing on his legacy to his team.
== Gallery ==
File:Ron watching the team.png|Ron watching the amateur team from his car.
File:Ron coached by his father.png|Ron being coached by his late father.
File:Ron backstory.png|Ron revealing his backstory to the team, that he gave up canoeing a long time ago.
File:Ron sugar.png|Ron holding up a sugar bar and a bottle of Pepsi to cope with his cancer.
File:Ron argument.png|Ron and Jeremy having an argument as the latter berates him for his coaching and for quitting.
File:Ron consulting with his doctor.png|Ron consulting with his doctor over his cancer and the loss of his father.
File:Ron ceremony.png|Ron holding a ceremony to help the amateur team find their Menehune.
File:Ron passing on.png|Ron passing on his legacy to the team after they win the canoeing contest as he moves on.
== Trivia ==
* Burning Like a Legacy: The Legacy of Ron Everett was Ron Simonsen's last film, as he passed away from cancer a year before its release.
*Ron is presumably inspired by Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky franchise, Norman Dale in Hoosiers, and Patches O'Houlihan from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.
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