Personal Narrative: Coach Ed As A Role Model

As I walk into the gym my senses go wild. There’s many smells of sweat, weird smelling perfumes, and colognes. I finally spotted Coach Ed after scanning the whole gym for 2 minutes. He was standing by the bleachers at the far end, watching the kids like a 6’4 tall hawk. While I was walking towards him he began to laugh because I almost tripped over a cone while walking to him. From that moment I knew this was going to be a fun interview. Coach Ed is originally from Hialeah, Florida. Coach Ed is Dominican and Cuban. Growing up Ed says that “sports always just flow with me like when I’m on the court everything just comes together.” Ed had only one role model throughout his entire life. When I asked him who was his role model his face lit up …show more content…
He looks up and reminisce about the good old days when he played for Miami Springs Middle school. When I asked what number he had he looked at me and said and “MANN I had that big 14 boy.” We both laughed as I continued to ask him questions. Ed also played for Miami Springs Highshool. Ed went to UAB to play college basketball. As I asked Coach if he was a bookworm or slacker he smirked evilly and replied “well its college so you really can’t slack, but I was a class clown, so you could basically say I was a borderline slacker.” Coach said that “going to college out in Alabama was crazy, it was like they never have seen a Hispanic man before, but having to learn to stop living that city boy life was hard, all in all moving to going to college out in Alabama made me a better man.” Coach’s coming of age was him having to realize that life isn’t a game anymore and that he had to get used to not always having someone there to pick him up whenever he falls.
When I finished interviewing him I got up from the bleachers shook Coach’s hand and thanked him for his time. This really didn’t impact me in any but it did feel like that I didn’t waste my time, I was