Clare
has spent the last two weeks studying for a test that will allow her to become
an NCAA Division-I, certified coach.
Basically, what this means is she can show up at a high school or travel
softball game while wearing a Valpo tee shirt.
Don’t
laugh. Two days ago, Clare was going to
pick up a few dollars working the gate at a high school softball game in
Elmhurst. Then it occurred to her this
might not be NCAA kosher, so she contacted the Valpo compliance officer
(interesting job, that) for an opinion.
The consensus was that she could go, but only if she filled out the
necessary paperwork. Luckily, the good
people at Immaculate Conception agreed to let Clare work a soccer game instead. And a good thing Clare passed that test
yesterday.
This
tells you how serious my daughter is about coaching; she fully intends to
evaluate talent in addition to wearing a tee shirt at travel tournaments. Me, I wonder if the good folks at the NCAA
can tell the forest from the trees, substantive rules from the picayune ones. I just don’t see the slippery slope attached
to collecting tickets for a ballgame.
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