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Coaches corner Mark Halabis

Name: Mark Halabis Sponsored by Charmont in Cass City. Mark will be receiving a
$25.00 Gift Certificate for dinner at Charmont. Thank You
Sport/Activity: Softball Mark for all you do and Charmont for your support!!

What is your favorite moment?

School / Community: Cass City Who do you idolize in this sport/ Seeing the girls and team
activity? Wouldn’t say I idolized have success through hard
Family: Melissa, Abbey and her, but Michigan Coach Carol work and dedication.
Brady Hutchinson for the program
she’s built and her love of the One tip for someone looking to
How long have you participated game of softball. get into this sport/activity: Be
in this sport/activity? 10 Years passionate about anything you

What do you love best about Have you met anyone famous do and work hard.
it? Being around the kids and in this sport/activity? Yes, Carol
watching them get better and Hutchinson and most of the Are there any other activities
realizing what it takes to be Michigan Softball players the you love? Watching my son
come a team. last eight years. and daughter play the sports
they are involved in.

Thinking back over the years, Where does your team normal- Where can we find you in the
who is a mentor or coach that ly practice? In Cass City. off season? There is an off
helped you grow as a coach season? In my life softball is
or athlete? What made them Have you traveled anywhere all year long.
special? I have two, Dave special related to this sport/ac-
Gierhart, my baseball coach at tivity? World Series in Colum- Anything else you think we
Caro and Bill Graham. Coach bus, Ohio. Abbey would tell you should know about you? Going
Gierhart was always there for Ann Arbor that is her special to the Women’s College World
us, whether it was on the dia- place so it is mine too. Series is on my bucket list.
mond or in line in general. He
cared about not just making us What awards or honors have
better players, but also a better you won? The best award is
person in life. Bill Graham was just being able to work with the
Mr. Baseball in Caro. What a girls and making them better
great gentleman, I could write players.
a book about what Bill taught
me. Probably the one thing that What have you learned from
has stuck with me is “don’t talk participating in this sport/activi-
about yourself as a player”. He ty? As a coach and player if you
always told us if you’re a good work hard it pays off in the end.
ball player people will tell you, Champions are made when no
you don’t have to tell them. one is watching.
I know the world would be a
better place if there were a few What do you like the most
more people like Bill Graham about the sport/activity? Things
around. it teaches us in life not just soft-
ball. It teaches us many things
that we use in life forever.

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