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Speaker 1 0:00
Hello. This is Mrs. Quintero, the proud Head of School, of The Honor Roll School, and welcome back to the pod, the dolphin podcast. We can now be followed not only on Spotify, but now on Apple podcast. Search us as the tank thrs official dolphin podcast. So follow us and turn on those notifications so you don't miss the next episode. Today, I'm joined here with Coach Hamilton, our athletic director and multi sport coach. He will be discussing sports and student involvement at the honor roll school. But first, let's jump right into what's coming up. The Pink Out volleyball game will start at 4pm on Thursday October 9, Families are encouraged to attend to support the teams and bring on that pink. Remember that the official 2025, Pink Out shirt can be worn every Thursday in October in place of a uniform Polo. I think that's a great, great incentive for kids and moms don't have to do as much laundry replace it with that pink out shirt. Book Fair ends Friday, October 10. You know, that's very sad, but Coach, have you been down to the book fair?
Speaker 2 1:13
Yes, I have been there a few times, talking to a couple kids. I know. What was funny was one kid was telling me, because I saw her, she was missing a few teeth. And I was like, Did you see the tooth fairy? She was like, I did. And then she told me that she bought her books with tooth fairy money.
Speaker 1 1:28
Oh, that was cute. Oh, that's so sweet. Did you buy your sweet baby anything? Not yet. Not yet. Okay. Well, you have until October 10. Okay, thank you. Okay, perfect. The end of the first quarter is Friday, October 10. Wow, Coach, I can't believe this. The first quarter is complete already. I don't even know what has happened to this. We still have so much to do and no time to waste. So hey, Coach Hamilton, hello everybody. How are you doing? Oh, I think they're doing great now that you're here with us. Happy to be here. Great. You know, I invited you here really for something, because one of our four pillars is athletics. And interestingly enough, we did put out in the newsletter a jot form to parents, asking them what kind of things they like to hear on the podcast, and one of the parents did ask, how can they get their children involved in athletics here at the honor roll school,
Speaker 2 2:32
besides just in regular PE that they have usually regularly daily, or some that come two to three times a week, because they're in orchestra or band, you can get involved like that, of course, introduced to athletics and PE and then we have the other ways for juniors, which is, we were excited this year to open it up Junior sports to second grade. Is usually third and fourth grade in the past years, but this year we opened it up to second grade to see how that we're going so far we're doing basketball, and it's going well for second and third fourth grade, we always send an email out. It's always on dolphin days of kind of what's to expect for sports. If you stay in tune with that, then you'll definitely see and then we always send an email out to our parents and student body about what's coming up in the quarter for sports and athletics, and then you can sign the Jot form, sign up then, and you should be able to be signed up. So second, third and fourth is Junior sports. Middle school sports is fifth through eighth grade. And all this stuff is emailed out. It's always on dolphin days of kind of what's coming up athletic calendar, you can kind of see what's coming up for athletics, but then you also get an email when probably within a week or two of the actual sport going to start, and then you can sign up on the job form or sign up then,
Speaker 1 3:50
yeah, I think the kids were really, really excited, and I know the parents were really, really happy when they saw that we started offering the junior athletics to second grade. I think that might be your your biggest audience right now.
Speaker 2 4:04
It's quite a few second graders out there right now. It's exciting to see they're having a good time. We see a lot more parents that we I like to open it up for the parents to kind of see. Sometimes it was the gift and the curse, because it's like, oh, I don't know how the parents are going to judge the coaches of how it goes. But actually, I like to kind of let the parents see their kids learning and having fun and learning something different, or continue on the start of something that they might like, and kind of grow from there. And to see it in the team aspect and individual aspect in the parents be able to come in and watch is, it's a good it's a good time.
Speaker 1 4:42
So I heard you mention the word team. I think it's important to start building that. I guess that mindset in athletics when you're thinking about working together as a team. So like, what are some of the things that you do with the second, third and fourth graders when they're out with junior? Athletics to make them feel like they're part of a team, because I know you're doing a lot of skill and drill with them, but how do you bring in that, that team aspect?
Speaker 2 5:09
We always warm up individually. We kind of, we put different groups together. And the team aspect kind of starts from the beginning, because you you have to be a team. Everybody has to kind of be on the same page as far as of getting organized, get into your spots correctly. I don't usually move forward until everybody gets that understanding from the beginning. So usually those first two sessions are they go a little bit slower, because it's definitely with second grade in there. Now, just to understand you have to be in a certain spot at a certain time to get started is a light challenge. But I say, by the third session, everybody understands that we won't move forward until everybody's in the right spots. And that's kind of starts to build the hint of team right there. Because when you see you're in, you're in your spot, and then somebody else is not nursing, they kind of, you'll see somebody maybe, like, kind of nudge my like, Hey, quiet or, you know, go over there, and that automatically starts to put the team aspect in, because just like any team, you can't really have success unless everybody's on the same page. So we start that mindset early. So they'll do individual warm ups as far as, like, ball handling, they'll do that by themselves. And then as we start to build from there, then they'll start, I'll partner them up with one other person, and then they'll start doing drills with another person, and that'll switch from session to session, and we'll build it from two people. Then next thing you know, we'll start doing we'll start to play. After we'll do drills, we'll play. We'll start doing four on four, five on five. So we just slowly but surely start to build it up. And then I create teams that think would fit best with each other, and that'll change every week.
Speaker 1 6:51
So we offer several Junior athletic, sports for the kids to get involved with. What is your advice to parents about taking more than one sport,
Speaker 2 7:02
I think it's very important to try, especially while you're young, to try as many sports as possible. As you get older, you have to kind of shred it down a bit. As your schedule gets even bigger, you can't play as many sports, and you know, you have to weed that down. But when you're young, you just never know what they could possibly do well and really well in so I always advise them to play as many sports as possible. We try to offer as many activities at our school, and I always suggest for them to get involved in it early as possible. So each quarter I would I would suggest to like, give it a try. You just never know how your kid might react in it. It might go well, it might not, but either way you gave it a try, it's always better to give it a try than not. I've always, I've seen through the years of kids that you know didn't want to participate in fourth grade, fifth grade, and then by seventh grade, you know, a lot of the friends have been participating, and now they kind of want to get involved, and then they want to try out or something by seventh grade year. And it's, I'm not saying it's too late, because it's still early, it's middle school, but they're just behind a lot more than they would have been if they would have tried. Even if they're not the best, they will be able to get it. They understand the concept of the sport, and it just kind of puts them all it starts them off on the wrong foot. So I'd rather them just start early, even if they're not that good. But through the years, of them keep trying and trying. I've seen so many kids that did not want to do certain sports at the beginning and slowly but surely, next thing I know, by sixth grade, fifth grade, seventh grade, they're a completely different kid than what they might have thought they would have been.
Speaker 1 8:40
Yeah, I do remember a student that was here seeing her do her mom brought her all the time to do the junior volleyball. Junior volleyball, Junior volume. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do what she would say. And then I see her trying out for the fifth grade team, on the fifth grade team, sixth grade doing great. All of a sudden, I'm on club volleyball. Like, are you kidding? You're going to club volleyball when you didn't even want to do this, when you were, you know, second, third. I mean, well, back then it was third and fourth grade. But I just remember that. And then I recall too, like, when she was applying for her high school, she had all this experience in volleyball, and, you know, two high schools wanted her. Two private high schools wanted her because of, you know, her athletic background. So, you know, that's another thing I think parents need to think about, and kids too need to think about, you know, where, where are you going for high school? What are the things that you want to do? Is you want to pursue this in college. So, absolutely, absolutely, that we offer so many things for the kids to get involved in, and just try, right like you said, just go ahead and and really try, and you'll never know what you end up liking.
Speaker 2 9:51
Athletics brings so much to the table when it comes to helping kids on the academic side, not just saying on that physically, but. The mental part of it, the social part of it. I know there's a lot of kids that do many other extracurricular activities, but I know when I've talked to some high schools, and they tell me about and especially from experience, from I know kids that went to high school and went to college and where they were in middle school, as far as what the athletic side did for them, as far as moving forward academically, really turned the turn the corner for them. As far as they they kind of know when you tell them you're in athletics, and then, let's say you play club or you play for your school, they kind of know the hours that would take, usually, to participate in that sport. They kind of have that figured out of what the private the probably the minimal is, so they understand that you're doing academic. I mean, do you do an athletics on top of your academics? And if you can do that at a high level, that definitely gives you an edge over somebody that doesn't,
Speaker 1 10:56
yeah, it becomes one of those time management. You know, we interview prep the kids when they're getting ready to go to private high school, and some of the and we do have a list of some of the questions that sometimes are answered, and one of the common ones is, how do you manage your time with all of the things that you've listed on your application? And you know, our kids learn to do that here at an early age, they learn how to, you know, get ready for those games, how to attend practice, still do your homework and still get everything done. And I look at some of these kids, especially the ones that are taking two, three and four high school credit classes while they're here in middle school and being, you know, involved in athletics, and it just amazes me that we are giving them those tools before they go off to high school, and they're just so awesome at doing it as well.
Speaker 2 11:48
It can be done. It. Kids do it. I know it's hard, and it's being a student athlete, is what they call it. It's difficult, but it can be done, and it's being done across the country, so don't feel like you're alone and think that you're by yourself and like, I can't do you. You definitely can do it. It's just about time management and what's important to
Speaker 1 12:10
you. How does that translate to their school day?
Speaker 2 12:15
Oh, it definitely trans transfers over on the academic side, the confidence that in the team building that happens in sports definitely brings kids that are, I would say, more introverts. And with team sports, it kind of forces them to have to be talkers and be able to listen to other people and find different ways to communicate. And then next thing you know, I see them in class thriving a little differently, in a positive way towards their education. So I'm always even happy to see that happen for them.
Speaker 1 12:50
So when did you get involved in sports? Because I think sometimes having the kids hear about you being their age, doing things that they just don't hear you coaching them, but you they can hear life experiences. The main
Speaker 2 13:02
reason why I do coach is just because I go back to the space of me being their age and trying to learn on my own. I mean, my dad was there, of course, but he worked, like a lot of the parents here do, worked a lot, so I was always at home, like, figuring things out athletically on my own in elementary school, and I was kind of, was I didn't have the access to, like, seeing videos and seeing, like, what the real athletes were doing. So it was just kind of one of those things you watch TV and you kind of tried to figure it out on your own. And so now coaching is just, I coach from an angle of the kid that doesn't know anything. And so I just want to be able to give them the no part at a young age, so they don't have to go through the difficulties of trying to figure it out later in that problem. And that's where it really hurts you when you try to figure it out later. So I come from that angle of the little kid that wants to learn.
Speaker 1 13:56
One day, you told me something about the parents. What did you tell me about the parents
Speaker 2 14:02
throughout the years, a parent from time to time would kind of say, Coach, you should, you guys should do like a league or something for the parents. You know, there's a lot of parents that like to play basketball or stuff like that, or sport and, you know, and I've had a parent, you know, one or two that would come up here and want to shoot around and stuff like that. And I did think that was a pretty, really good idea to sense of community. There's a lot of parents here that have probably a lot in common, but I know, just like anything else, they're moving fast, they're picking up kids, they're going to work, they're, you know, it's a lot going on, so you don't probably get a chance to really socialize with other parents. And I think we have a lot of great families here. I've seen there's a lot of parents that have a lot in common. And if we could come with something that basketball or something for the adults, man or woman, a league, a sense of community to be to come up here, you know, certain times of the week, if we get. Together and be able to play pickup, you know, friendly game of basketball, for a certain amount of time. You can socialize, get to know some of your neighbors. They might be people that live close to you, but nonetheless, we're a community here. So I think would be a really, really, really good thing.
Speaker 1 15:15
Well, I think that's an awesome idea. So let's put together a job form and get it out to the parents and see who, who wants to show up. Who would show up? I would come watch a parent pickup game. I really
Speaker 2 15:27
would be interesting. It would definitely be interesting while getting in shape, socializing, fellowshipping in the ths way.
Speaker 1 15:35
I mean, I won't be playing basketball, but I'll definitely can cheer. I will cheer them on. All right. Well, thank you, Coach Hamilton. Thank you. Remember. You can find the pod the dolphin podcast in the weekly dolphin days newsletter on the thrs app, on Spotify and now on Apple podcast, look for the dolphin athletics logo until next time. This is Mrs. Quintero and
Unknown Speaker 16:00
Coach Hamilton, signing off.
Speaker 3 16:04
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