Coach
After several years of teaching history and coaching at a boarding school in New Hampshire, I was given a unique opportunity through the school’s sabbatical program, to devote 8 months towards professional development. Wanting to make shift from teaching to athletics, I spent much of the year (when I wasn’t traveling) interviewing, shadowing and learning from Athletic Directors throughout New England. During this process, Moses Brown contacted me about a position in its Athletic Department, to which I quipped: “Do Quakers even play contact sports?” I have since learned that not only does a Friends education encourage athletic participation, but inspires greatness by promoting the values essential to team success—cooperation, commitment, and respect for self and others. When I visited the Moses Brown campus for the first time, I remember marveling at how intimate the community felt even with its grandiose buildings and facilities as a backdrop. I came to Moses Brown because I believed this was a place where individuals were known, individuality was celebrated, and faculty and students thrived as the result of feeling connected. I remain at Moses Brown because I still believe this, and I continue to feel that sense of community every day when I come to work.
