Coaching EMU for the Day

While the travel team is out of town in Buffalo, NY and Akron, OH I was asked a few weeks ago to fill in coaching the swimmers who chose to continue training. Its honestly some of the first coaching experience I've ever had an opportunity to partake in.

I'd like to share an ironic situation I feel as I stand on the deck of the Michael H. Jones Natatorium. For years, like everybody else who has swam for EMU, I was instilled with an overwhelming respect for Coach Mike Jones. I just find it ironic that I'm filling in as coach for EMU on the day which was chosen to honor the greatest coach I have known... I find myself standing on the same pool deck Coach Jones did, coaching the same team he did.

Does it actually mean anything?... Of course not. But its impossible not to have his legacy in my thoughts the entire time.