Leaving a Lasting Legacy: “Team on 3”
What culminating gift do you give to the coach and manager who gave you everything? Team Avalanche chose this brick, now laid in the walkway at the College of William & Mary. It reads: Chas and Sally Sumser “Team on 3” Avalanche 2014 The College is where Chas and Sally met. Now, “Team on 3” […]
At just the right time…
At just the right time, you brought the world into existence, so why am I in such a hurry to speed things up?
A Half Truth isn’t …
A half truth isn’t a whole lie. It’s just half of a truth looking for its better half.
The Second Secret Behind Coach Sumser’s Success: “I showed up at their plays and performances.”
Last week I introduced you to Chas Sumser, the “no-cut” coach, formerly of the Loudon Vipers boys team and then the Leesburg FC Avalanche girls team. Both teams he agreed to take on at the request neighboring children who asked him to ‘please coach my team’. Perhaps Chas was just being a good neighbor. He […]
The Power Behind the Coach
Hi Friends, Every now and then there’s something that captures “all” of you in a single place. It speaks who you are, what you believe, and how you operate into one expression. It funnels you. In the story I posted last week on the Fit2Finish website (my “professional” zone) has funneled me. A coach has ushered […]
Caution: Stillness May Be Dangerous
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.* Except I hide my sitting in moving. But trust me, I’m sitting on the inside. Oh, not lounging-on-the-couch-with-a-soda-and-popcorn-in-front-of-a-movie kind of sitting. No, I mean myself, the part of me who knows she is me, is seated and stilled. I must disguise this as moving because, were […]
Faith Doesn’t Work without the Works
On the 13th of January, my book was released. It’s titled, Fit2Finish: Keeping Your Soccer Players in the Game. No, I didn’t self publish. There is actually a publisher out there who believed in me and believed in my message enough to work with me to get this into print. Thank you, Morgan James, Publishing, for […]
This Gift is Not Mine, But Yours
There’s such a difference between “You are gifted!” and “You’ve been given a gift!” One might confuse the two, thinking either one will do. But no, one must go. Step away; the other may stay. You are gifted! Shining star, you’re certain to go far. A sure anointing, don’t be disappointing. The burden so heavy, not the resources to […]
What’s Revealed at the Pool?
How do you get in? Close your eyes, hold your nose and jump! Shimmy in, inch by inch. Step. down. the. ladder. Look out below!! SPLASH Test the water … Sit with feet dangling Sunning and dipping. Sunning and dipping. Dive: Lap, lap, lap, lap, lap, lap. You can tell a lot about a person […]
The Secret Behind Coach Chas Sumser’s Success: No Cuts Ever
There are only two kinds of coaches in this world: those who cut players and those who don’t. Chas Sumser doesn’t. Oh, we would all love a dream team. You know, one where you scan down your roster and find every name on it belongs to a star player. Imagine: Jordan, Pippen, Stockton, Malone, Magic […]