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Along these same lines, I recently attended my alma-mater's conference swimming championships (My alma mater being Missouri State).....The coach has been there for around 24 years or so...I was part of the first class of incoming freshman for him when he first took over the job in 1983. I had not seen him in over 20 years and so I wasn't even sure how much he would remember about me (and what he would remember I thought wouldn't be all that positive...and I will just leave it at that). Well I e-mailed him ahead of time to tell him about my plans to come to the meet ...and he e-mailed me back with this wonderful e-mail about how excited he was to hear from me again ...and how much he was looking forward to seeing me again...etc... Well I went to the meet and had a total blast. Yesterday he called me out of the blue just to tell me how much he enjoyed having me at the meet....This guy is such a classy guy!! Compared to the kind of remarks I've heard about Skip Kenny for example (although I have never met him and so I'm not judging him or anything)...I can only say that my old coach Jack Steck from Missouri State is perhaps the classiest guy I've ever met. I hope that most of you guys can say the same about some of your old coaches. I can't tell you how much I appreciated that phone call. Not all coaches would go out of thier way to make such a call....and I was a real hoolligan pain in the buttox sometimes back in college....If anyone had a reason to snub me it was definitely Coach Steck! Newmastersswimmer

Along these same lines, I recently attended my alma-mater's conference swimming championships (My alma mater being Missouri State).....The coach has been there for around 24 years or so...I was part of the first class of incoming freshman for him when he first took over the job in 1983. I had not seen him in over 20 years and so I wasn't even sure how much he would remember about me (and what he would remember I thought wouldn't be all that positive...and I will just leave it at that). Well I e-mailed him ahead of time to tell him about my plans to come to the meet ...and he e-mailed me back with this wonderful e-mail about how excited he was to hear from me again ...and how much he was looking forward to seeing me again...etc... Well I went to the meet and had a total blast. Yesterday he called me out of the blue just to tell me how much he enjoyed having me at the meet....This guy is such a classy guy!! Compared to the kind of remarks I've heard about Skip Kenny for example (although I have never met him and so I'm not judging him or anything)...I can only say that my old coach Jack Steck from Missouri State is perhaps the classiest guy I've ever met. I hope that most of you guys can say the same about some of your old coaches. I can't tell you how much I appreciated that phone call. Not all coaches would go out of thier way to make such a call....and I was a real hoolligan pain in the buttox sometimes back in college....If anyone had a reason to snub me it was definitely Coach Steck! Newmastersswimmer