BLAKE EDWARDS

I am thankful to have David Fried in my life. He is my coach and when I joined his team I was just average at catching. Now I am a mean catching machine. He always says, "If the ball is thrown right at you, then catch it in your chest, but if the ball is thrown a little higher than your height, you jump for the ball and catch it with your hands."

Also whenever we travel to different countries then he makes sure me and my team stretch before the big game because he doesn't want us to pull a muscle. David brings a medical bag wherever he goes just in case if we get injured. One time I dove for a flag and I got a small cut on my knee and he put some slimy stuff on it and then a band-aid on top of it. Almost everyone got hurt on my team, including me! I sprained my leg.

If we drop a pass and he know we tried then he won't get mad, but if you catch a ball he always bellows "NICE CATCH!" If you are doing bad in school he helps us. We have to learn colors like red, blue, green, and each color represents a play. For example a white is a comeback, a blue is a fly. If he tells us to do a green and you do a red by accident then he tests you on the colors. But we have wrist bands that say the colors and the definitions. I know all of them by heart. So David Fried is someone I look up to and I am thankful for him.

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