Coach P's Soccer Blog Discovered

Someone must be reading Coach P's Soccer Blog.  

Yesterday I received via e-mail the alumni newsletter of my old high school, Penn Charter in Philadelphia (where I was Class of '64), and it offered links to various on-line stories about Penn Charter alums in the news, including Phillies General Manager Ruben Amaro (Class of '83) and former U.S. National Team and Philadelphia Union player, Chris Albright (Class of '97).  What I did not realize until I clicked the link was that the article was from Coach P's Soccer Blog back in February. 

Nice to see someone is reading.

A story about Amaro, who was a very good soccer player at PC:  When he was a senior he was nominated for the annual Alumni Society Award, given to a senior who through scholarship, leadership, athletics and character exemplifies Penn Charter.  I was on the Alumni Society committee that selected the winner from among nominees by the faculty.

I recognized Amaro's name because of his father who played for the Phillies.  His academic transcript was close to all A's, his faculty recommendations off the charts and athletically he was not only a star in soccer, he was even better in baseball.  (He went on to play at Standford and then for the Phillies.)  Bill Bux was the only other committee member  and we agreed to confer by phone the next morning.  When I called him he immediately said, "I was thinking of Amaro."  To which I replied, "I guess we have a consensus."  And so Ruben's name is on the wall of the Assembly Room with some 80 other winners of the award,