To give a little background on myself, I played for coach Burst for four years graduating in 2022. I ended up staying in Dubuque after graduation and getting my first ‘big boy job’. There was a bit of a competitive void in my life that I know a lot of collegiate athletes feel after graduation as well as a little ‘bug’ I caught while interning over my post-grad summer; the coaching bug. Once you get it it’s hard to shake so in the fall, I started volunteering my time coaching at my alma mater. With my work schedule I was able to make practices Monday through Friday and if I swapped some shifts around, would make almost every game. I would show up to practice, coach, and then go to film and help out wherever I could. Even at that point as a volunteer assistant, I was still somewhat oblivious to what really happens behind the scenes of a college lacrosse program.
Nicely stated!