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Sam Pagano set standard for family's rich coaching legacy
Posted: January 31, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Those close to Sam Pagano wonder if there is room to cram anything more about football into his mind, life or daily routine. Even with an already-packed football portfolio, including 21 years as coach at Fairview High School in Boulder, Pagano now has to find room to keep track of the Indianapolis Colts.
That's because Chuck Pagano, Sam's older son, was recently named coach of the Colts. Sam Pagano is going to be more than just an interested observer. He's a grandfather, but he's not in any rocking chair when it comes to keeping up with his boys.
In Sam Pagano's case, the task is twofold. John Pagano, Sam's younger son, was recently named defensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers.
"I stay abreast of what's going
University of Denver Men's Football Coach John Roning with Sam Pagano #68. Sam Pagano is the subject of a Colorado Classic column. He's a former coach at Fairview High School. His son Chuck Pagano as just named head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. John Leyba, The Denver Post
on with them," Pagano said. "I like to watch practice sessions, and my wife (Diana) and I have watched both of their teams quite a bit. When Chuck was coaching with the Baltimore Ravens, I was able to sit in on some of their team meetings. We look at it as showing support."
Sam Pagano's passion for football blossomed when he was at Pueblo Central High School and playing for Sollie Rasso. His high school coach was a mentor, and Sam carried Rasso's counseling with him throughout his career.
After Pueblo Central, Pagano continued his playing career at the University of Denver, where he was a linebacker and guard for coach John Roning. DU dropped football after the 1960 season, a year after Pagano departed.
"I went to the first tryout camp the Denver Broncos had out at Colorado School of Mines," Pagano said of his immediate time after college. "I tried out as a kicker but was cut before the first preseason game. I didn't get to wear the striped socks."
The first Broncos uniforms featured vertically striped socks that were widely ridiculed throughout pro football. With the quick exit from the Broncos camp, Pagano turned to his lifelong ambition. He had known from an early age that he wanted to coach. After assistant coaching stops at Adams State College in Alamosa and Boulder High School, Pagano moved to Fairview High School in 1969 as head coach.
While there, he coached both of his sons. Chuck Pagano went on to the University of Wyoming after high school, and John Pagano moved on to Mesa State in Grand Junction.
"It was easy coaching them in high school," Sam Pagano said. "I was involved more with the offense, and they both played quite a bit on defense. It was more nerve-wracking watching them playing in college."
While at Fairview, Sam Pagano helped develop one of the top programs in the state. The Knights won outright state championships in 1979 and 1987 and gained a co-championship with Westminster in 1978. Through the years, Pagano's Fairview team was known for its epic battles with coach Fred Tesone and Cherry Creek.
"It was a great rivalry," Pagano said. "The only problem was Fred won most of them, and he and Cherry Creek got most of the attention."
Tesone called the Fairview game the toughest on Creek's schedule.
"I couldn't sleep the whole week before the Fairview game," he said.
Pagano got his reward in 1987 when the Knights beat the Bruins in the state championship game. Pagano left the football coaching job after the 1989 season and retired from teaching in 1994. His final coaching record was 164-58-4, a mark he attributes to great players and assistant coaches. Two years before he retired from teaching, he joined the growing hotbed for American coaches teaching American football in Europe. His first stop was Bergamo, Italy, and his team in 1994 went 14-1 and was runner-up in the Italian Super Bowl.
"I was ready for something different, and I really wanted to coach in Europe," he said. "We had some language problems, but a lot of the players spoke English, and we got along that way."
After a coaching stop in Taipei, Pagano returned to Europe and coached in Germany and France. He returned to Bergamo in 2002 and closed out his coaching career with a 16-0 team and the Eurobowl Championship.
"I had enough," Pagano said of his tenure. "I still go to Fairview games when I can."
The pace will pick up this fall. His game plan now is scheduling the best times to be in cities such as San Diego and Indianapolis to watch his sons' teams play. And maybe there will be a weekend that Fairview's schedule fills an opening.
After all, one of the country's top football coaching families is headquartered right here in Colorado.
Irv Moss: 303-954-1296 or imoss@denverpost.com
Pagano bio
Born: Jan. 2, 1938, in Pueblo
High School: Pueblo Central
College: University of Denver
Family: Wife Diana, daughters Connie, Cathy (deceased), Carrie, Jennifer; sons Chuck, John.
Hobbies: Walking, meeting with friends.
On the schedule: Watching a college game at West Point and the Naval Academy.
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Local baseball coaching legend to retire
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SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- The man behind one of South Florida's most well respected youth baseball programs is set to retire.
Red Berry, the South Florida baseball staple, has decided to retire after managing Red Berry's Baseball World for 46 years.
Berry's career began with a love of the game and a vision. "I've always ate, drank and slept baseball," he said. "I worked 25 years out of the trunk of my car, leasing facilities and traveling around like a vagabond, and I always dreamt about this. God made it come true."
That dream saw Berry coach in three college world series, helping lead the Miami Hurricanes to a national championship in 1985 as their pitching coach. "His love for the game, his love of God, the way he shares his values, the way he relates baseball to real life is special," said coach Otto Williams.
But what he considers his greatest accomplishment is the 46 years spent teaching thousands of kids and their parents about more than just hits and runs. "Family values-- it's not just baseball, it's not just winning. It's about helping the child develop how to learn how to win, how to lose, how to become friends with people and how to develop better character," said parent Todd Botner.
Players past and present have a lot to be thankful for since learning under Berry. "It changed my life completely, complete 180," said former player Manny Negrin. "He taught us about life values, how to respect by trying hard in life in general. It was great."
"He makes it fun because he talks to us, and he like, pitches to us," said player Don Darcangelo. "It's sad because I won't see him."
The great run in South Florida baseball is now coming to an end after Berry announced this season will be his last. "I'm shocked," said parent Angie Toffoli. "When I got the letter Saturday, I cried."
Many others feel the same way about Berry. "I was devastated. I've know Red since I was in high school here in Miami and his passion for baseball here," said Richard Rump. "Now I have my grandson here, and I find out he's closing the place and my grandson loves it here, and I was just totally devastated."
Parents broke the news to their young baseball players that Baseball World would be no more. "He cried for two hours," said parent Janette Rizo. "And he went back to coach Berry to ask him why, and then he told this is the best place to play baseball."
There's no doubt about it, Red Berry's retirement will leave a void in South Florida youth baseball. "It's time to move on and see what the Lord has for me," said Berry. "I'm real proud of the generation of youngsters, the many generations that have come through Baseball World, and they've made me better too. I'm still throwing 12 innings a week. That's not bad for a 39-year-old guy."
Berry's last day will be March 31. Red Berry's Baseball World property will be sold to the church next door to be turned into a youth center.
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Coaching couple learn about love, life and basketball side-by-side
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MEG WOCHNICK STAFF WRITER • Published January 30, 2012 Modified January 30, 2012
OLYMPIA – Like any husband and wife who are in the same profession, Mychael and Monica Heuer understand each other’s triumphs and struggles.
Not much needs to be said when one arrives home late after a loss; stats and facial expressions tell the story of a game and a sport they’ve coached for 20-plus years. Yet, a victory can spark a mutual excitement for the other one’s success.
But once they arrive at their home on Olympia’s west side, they set aside their titles as head women’s college basketball coaches – Monica at The Evergreen State College and Mychael at South Puget Sound Community College. They’re simply husband and wife, and dad and mom to their 7-year-old son, Alex.
“We have to make sure we’re a family first,” Mychael Heuer said.
Basketball isn’t a 24-hour-a-day subject with the Heuers, but it is part of their daily lives – consummated when Mychael proposed to his wife in 1993 at a high school girls basketball game in California where they were coaching against each other.
“My team knew, but I didn’t know (about the proposal),” Monica recalled. “I thought, ‘Oh, great, everybody came to this game today.’ ”
CHALLENGES AND SUCCESS
Up until two years ago, Monica, 43, and Mychael, 44, were the wife-and-husband coaching tandem for the Evergreen women’s program, serving as head coach and associate head coach, respectively, for eight seasons. They’ve coached side-by-side for almost all of their 17 years of marriage. They still work on Evergreen’s campus where Monica is the assistant athletic director and Mychael is the acting director of the college’s career development center.
Both grew up playing basketball - Mychael at El Cerrito High School in Oakland, Calif., against future NBA superstar Gary Payton, and Monica at Redwood Christian in nearby Castro Valley, and later as a four-year player at Cal State Hayward (now Cal State East Bay).
Their paths first crossed in Sacramento during a summer 3-on-3 national high school basketball tournament. A player each coached separately introduced them in 1992. They were married two years later.
Not long after, they both took to the college ranks.
Dave Weber, the former Evergreen athletic director (2000-10), coached against Mychael and Monica in high school. And when Weber was hired as the AD and men’s coach at nearby Patten College (now Patten University), he hired the Heuers to start a women’s team from scratch in 1995.
Monica was there for two seasons before being lured to San Jose State and San Francisco as an assistant for an NCAA Division I program. Soon after, Mychael took over as Patten’s coach, leading that school to a 21-11 record in 1999-2000, and one victory away from making it to the NAIA national tournament.
A year after Weber headed north to take the AD position at Evergreen in 2000, he hired both Heuers to coach the Geoducks’ women in basketball.
“I definitely wanted someone who could do it, and they could do it,” Weber said. “They did a terrific job down there.”
The challenge of being a husband-and-wife coaching tandem wasn’t their only obstacle early on in their careers.
While at Patten, the Heuers were still newlyweds. They were learning how to be married, in addition to coaching an NAIA women’s basketball team in its first year of existence, as well as trying to make it all work with 8-to-5 jobs. And in Mychael’s case, he also was going to school.
“You have to figure all of that out at one time,” Monica said. “Moving forward to coming here (to Evergreen), we had figured out some things. It wasn’t perfect; it was still challenging.”
SIDE-BY-SIDE COACHING
In the Heuers’ eight years together on the bench at Evergreen (2002-10), the Geoducks’ best season came in 2004-05 when the program posted its best record in the 15-year history of the program at 16-14 overall, 10-8 in the Cascade Collegiate Conference.
Mychael calls the first few seasons a “learning process,” learning to be an assistant under his wife. By the end of their tenure together, “they worked really well together”, Evergreen forward Danielle Swain said.
There were trying times for the Heuers off the court.
Their second season in 2003-04 was especially difficult. After a kitchen fire they temporarily moved in with friends. Mychael’s father died. Monica’s mother was diagnosed with cancer.
And in April 2004, the couple became parents when Alex was born.
“We strengthened our relationship since coming here,” Mychael said. “We really relied on each other to make it through that tough time. How you focus on basketball goes back to getting in that zone. That’s our comfort zone.”
JUGGLING LIFE, JOBS
Now, the two run their own separate college programs.
In 2010, Mychael was hired to coach at SPSCC, only to see the program forfeit its final 10 games when roster numbers dwindled to dangerous proportions because of injuries and eligibility issues. This season, the Clippers are playing a full NWAACC West Division schedule of games – with moderate success (3-13 overall record).
Evergreen just returned from weekend games at College of Idaho and Eastern Oregon, both losses. The Geoducks are 4-18, and trail Southern Oregon by a game to get into the conference tournament in three weeks.
It is that time of year. Weekends are a scheduling grind. Weeknights are not much better with practices and sometimes SPSCC games.
And when one parent does have free time, it usually means getting Alex off to practice – in soccer, not basketball.
“I never thought I’d be a soccer mom … in the rain,” Monica said. “I know he’ll come around.”
The Heuers have succeeded in finding the right balance among basketball, personal relationships, their careers and family.
“You don’t go through 17 years of marriage without bumps and tribulations, but we’ve survived it,” Mychael said. “It’s nice to have somebody to share the understanding of what you’re going through and being able to have your spouse be able to also love what you do.”
Meg Wochnick: 360-754-5473 mwochnick@theolympian.com
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Coaches Worldwide Celebrate International Coaching Week 5th-11th February 2012
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The phenomenal growth of the business and life coaching industry worldwide is being celebrated during International Coaching Week, 5th-11th February 2012, with the release of the ICF Global Coaching Study.
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 January 2012
The International Coach Federation (ICF) commissioned from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) a survey of the coaching industry based on 12,000 respondents from 117 countries. It followed the first survey in 2007 when 5,415 respondents from 76 countries gave an insight into the coaching industry, in one of the largest pieces of research at that time.
“The findings from the new survey will prove especially useful in highlighting the growth in coaching, and uncovering the trends that have emerged over the past five years,” says Hilary Oliver, President of the UK-ICF.
“The aim of International Coaching Week is to enable coaches to promote the value of working with a professional, and to encourage the public to make contact with them. It’s also an opportunity for coaches to give something to the community and work pro-bono for groups or individuals they don’t normally work with.”
Coaching is increasingly regarded as a key part of an individual’s learning and development, and many companies consider it crucial to their performance.
“Anyone looking for a coach should first of all identify their own objectives in working with a coach,” advises Hilary. “The coach’s role is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has. Our website is a useful starting point as it lists accredited coaches in the UK, and provides information on the coaching process.”
The ICF is the largest worldwide resource for professional coaches and the source for those who are seeking a coach. For more information on finding a coach in the UK see http://www.coachfederation.org.uk
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1. Interviews:
This year’s UK-ICF President, Hilary Oliver, and last year’s President, Deborah Price, are available for interview. Please telephone 0845 5272 801 to arrange a time.
2. About the International Coach Federation (ICF)
The ICF is the largest worldwide resource for professional coaches, and the source for those who are seeking a coach. It’s a non-profit organisation formed by individual members - professionals who practise coaching, including Executive Coaches, Leadership Coaches, Life Coaches and many more, from around the world. Formed in 1995, the ICF now has over 19,000 members, dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high professional standards, providing independent certification, and building a network of credentialed coaches.
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Jennifer C Modica to Recieve Certification as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Coach in Tri-State Area …
Posted: January 30, 2012 at 2:15 am
Jennifer C
Modica to raise AD/HD awareness in the tri-state area.
Coaching CEO's, business owners, and anyone who wants
to be successful in life. See: JenniferCModica.weebly.com
North Haledon,
NJ (PRWEB) January 29, 2012
Jennifer C Modica of ADD Advocate Inc. to be Certified ADHD
Coach. Jennifer C Modica coaches CEO's,
business owners, teachers, creative types, and anyone willing to
take control of their life. ADD Advocate Inc is in the process of
becoming a Not-for-Profit Agency. Jennifer C Modica MS
Engineering, BS Geology and diagnosed with ADD. Jennifer is a red
belt in Tae Kwon Do and mother of a 10 yr old 1st degree black
belt who also has ADD.
Jennifer C Modica laughs recalling the day she read "How ADD
Originates And What You Can Do About It," by Dr. Gabor
Mate. "On every page, I said, this is me, yes that is me,
this is me... holy cow, My Son has ADD, and he got it from me!"
For Jennifer, who was diagnosed at 38 with Inattentive Type ADD, this was truly
a life-altering experience. She says they call it ADD because
all of a sudden, everything starts to ADD UP. Her passion to
help others led to the creation of ADD
Advocate, Inc in 2011, and plans to finish her Certified ADD Coach
training in 2012. "I want everyone with ADD to know that
they are remarkable people, and can and do perform remarkable
things. Within each challenge we have, there is the seed of a
strength."
Jennifer C Modica's goal is to spread awareness of ADD through
public and private appearance, and through coaching. "This is
the most rewarding work I have ever done, and who better to
make people aware of what ADD really is than someone who lived
it, and is currently living through the challenges? To the
groups I speak to, I help people understand the unique ways in
which ADD manifests itself. That is step one. When they can
understand their advantages, they can utilize them, and when
they understand their drawbacks, they can overcome them. The
great news is that there are many simple and effective
solutions to these challenges!"
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