BHS12

First of all, to all of you people bad mouthing my dad, he is a person who is trying to do his best. No one is perfect. Yes this is Carrie McGinnis, the daughter of the Bearden coach who you all think is doing everything for his own benefit and "hidden agenda". He has taken a Bearden team that had been to state once before last year and made them one of the best teams in the state two years in a row. If you ask pretty much every girl on the Bearden team, including me and the assistant coaches, you will see that he is an amazing coach who can bring any team together against all odds and win a district championship,regional championship, and come fourth in the state. Not many coaches can come into a close to being dead program and do that. Oh and by the way, this years banquet was great! I don't know where you were but I had a blast. None of the players really cared that he was late, we knew what he was doing and understood the situation. I'm pretty sure him being thirty minutes late didn't cause any harm. You are just looking for a reason to gripe. Also, seeing as how you think next years banquet will be so much better since I'll be a senior, you can forget about that. I may be his daughter, but he treats me just like everyone else in the gym and around the team. At last years banquet he teared up and at this years banquet he teared up, and it wasn't while giving me an award. You can ask any senior from this year and they will tell you they loved coach Dave and he loves them just like a daughter. And starting a club is very difficult and takes a lot of time and energy, I would know. I see how stressed out my dad is everyday trying to make the people that believe in his dream happy. My dad is starting KVA for all the right reasons and yes he gives all the glory to God, because he deserves it. My dad wanted to start KVA for the people who were unhappy with the other clubs in Knoxville and to make a nice environment for girls who love volleyball. He is doing it for the girls, not money, recognition, to get back at the other clubs, but because he loves volleyball, this has always been his dream, and to try a make people happy. And if you think he is putting club before high school you are way off, many nights he has stayed up until one or two in the morning figuring out ways to make our high school team better. He certainly isn't using his coaching job in high school just to promote his club, he didn't even have a club when he took the job at Bearden. Look at the players coming from Bearden who play club, he's not pushing or forcing his players to go to KVA nor has he ever. Rarely does club volleyball even get mentioned during the high school season, and if it is anyone talking about club it is us players doing it. Many high school players would love to have a a guy like my dad be their coach. Oh and by the way, our practices were 4:00 to 5:30 because we had them everyday and many weeks we had two games every other night. No girl was left without a ride home and all the parents knew the schedules and what time to pick up their daughters, there is no excuse for that. My dad is an amazing man and the only reason I'm doing this is because I feel like you guys deserve to know what really happens with the Bearden High School Volleyball Team. We all, well most all of us feel grateful to have such an amazing coach and better yet an amazing man as our coach. And next time you want to bad mouth a coach online for everyone to see know all the facts first and think about people writing stuff like that about you on here. You try being a coach, it is not an easy job or a director of a volleyball club, which is even harder.