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Coaches corner                                                 you won? Won some tour-
                                                               naments and a District title
  David Weiler                                                 while playing Basketball at
                                                               Sandusky.

Name: David Weiler              Who do you idolize in this     What have you learned from
Sport/Activity: Basketball,     sport/activity? I don’t idol-  participating in this sport/
Youth Baseball and Football     ize athletes, they put their   activity? Put in the work and
School / Community:Cass         pants on one leg at a time     good things will happen.
City, MI                        just like everyone else.
Family:Wife Heather. Kids:      What I do idolize is someone   What do you like the most
Ashtyn, Rylie, Amelia, Griffin  that puts in the work to be    about the sport/activity?
                                better every day whether       The competition and being in
How long have you partici-      its sports or anything that    the gym
pated in this sport/activity?   you are passionate about.
Lifetime..                                                     What is your favorite mo-
                                Have you met anyone fa-        ment? Seeing athletes
What do you love best about     mous in this sport/activity?   achieve their goals
it? When the light in the       Have met several athletes
athletes eyes light up, they    over the years. My favorite    One tip for someone looking
finally figured it out.         to talk to is Greg Hardin he   to get into this sport/activ-
                                is the Senior Executive Ath-   ity: Get a ball in your hand.
Thinking back over the          letic Director at University
years, who is a mentor          of Michigan. Google him he is  Are there any other activities
or coach that helped you        very interesting.              you love? Hunting, Fishing,
grow as a coach or athlete?                                    Golfing, really anything out-
What made them special?                                        side with friends and family.
My High school basketball
coach John Guttowsky he         Where does your team nor-      Where can we find you in the
made me so much better          mally practice? Gyms that      off season? Most likely at
mentally strong which has       are available or outside       the Baseball fields
carried over into LIFE.
                                Have you traveled anywhere     Anything else you think we
                                special related to this        should know about you? I
                                sport/activity? Attend lots    try to teach life lessons
                                of games all over the state    while coaching its not about
                                                               a mistake made I am always
                                What awards or honors have     more worried about the re-
                                                               sponse to the mistake. Hav-
                                 Coaches Corner is sponosored  ing a positive attitude and
                                 by Cook Gm Super Store        and being a good teammate.
                                 in Vassar. The Coach will     “Life is 10% what happens to
                                 recieve a FREE Oil Change,    you and 90% how you react
                                 some restrictions apply.      to it” John Wooden
                                 Thank You Cooks and Our
                                 Coach of the Month.

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