It began when I was teaching Concepts of Fitness back in 1990. Concepts of Fitness was a class designed for students who were passionate about fitness and maybe interested in a career in Physical Education and Coaching. The students were screened according to their interests and grades to qualify them for the course.

While coaching at my first teaching job, we were fortunate to have gathered a group of excellent students who just happened to play football. It was the custom back in the late ’60s to take the football team to camp for the upcoming season. Well, we were settled in Stroudsburg, …

By Jack Bottinger, retired football coach and teacher of 38 years It was the change of class one winter day in 1996, and a group of school administrators were gathered in the hall having a chat. I was on my way to the copying room and heard Dennis Foreman, the …