Mission Viejo Nadadores Head Coach Bill Rose has been nominated for the Youthees Award Coach of the Year.
Youth1.com is hosting the Youthees awards and will award the finalist with the most online votes. Voting takes place through January 31 at Youth1.com or Youthees.com. Folks can also support their local coach on Facebook at Facebook.com/youth1media.
With 43 years of coaching experience under his belt, Rose is an icon in the world of swimming and is known for his unique approach and catch words “more” and “better” that resonate within the Mission Viejo Aquatics Swim Complex.
From being a coach on the U.S. National Team and the Canadian World Championship Team to being inducted into the American Swim Coaches Hall of Fame, Rose has solidified his spot as one of the best teachers of all time for any sport. His success in 2011 with the Mission Viejo Nadadores Swim Team, however, is what pushed him off of the plank and into the waters as a Youth1 Coach of the Year nominee.
Thank you for srihang this post! It truly affirms much of what has guided my life-travels for the last many years.For over 20 years members of our Bay Area community have traveled to El Salvador to be in solidarity with a community of people we got to know through a refugee program. The refugees, staying in church sanctuaries in Palo Alto, told us that in order to truly understand them we needed to visit their country, to see what was happening in the civil war. Brave people went, dodging bullets and death squads, and carried the stories safely home.Our trips for these last two decades are about friendship, story-gathering, and working in partnership with the members of the community to determine what we can do together. Although our friends in Communidad Octavio Ortiz (La Canoa) truly appreciate other organizations and groups that do “mission” work and deliver aid, the relationship that we have is unique. We were with them when they were refugees and we walked along side them as they crossed the border back into El Salvador and took charge of their land along the Lempa River. We walked with them as they traveled across the country to vote, even though gun-toting militants threatened them every inch of the way. We have been with them through hurricanes and earthquakes. We have been with them as they celebrated victories, birthdays, new babies, and new buildings. And because we truly listened to them and partnered with them, we helped bring clean water wells to their community and got to see the bellies of their children go from being distended with germs to being flat and healthy. And from thousands of miles away most of the year, we work with our own government to promote fairness and democracy, and celebrated with them as the FMLN finally won the highest office in their land. We couldn’t have done any of that, nearly as well, if we weren’t truly friends.And our friends in El Salvador have been with us as we have grown in our understanding of ourselves, the world, and our walk with G-d. Doing is wonderful. Being is wonderful. Being with people and doing things together is priceless.