Coach got physical!!

[rainmaker]

Hope nobody minds if I brag a little.

Close game.End of third quarter. A1 is tall and is holding the ball up over her head. B1 is jumping up trying to jar the ball loose. This is happening right in front of B's bench. Coach A sees that his player is in trouble. Calls for time-out. By the time I blew my whistle, of course, B1 had indeed knocked the ball loose, and was grabbing it. Coach B goes postal. I went to the table, reported the time-out, turned to give whatever niformation he might accept. He screamed, "Suzy was touching the ball, you can't call time out when the other team is touching the ball." I said, "I am allowed to call a time-out if A has possession, which she did. The moment that matters is when I recognize and begin to blow, which I did before your player got the ball. Sorry, coach, I'm not going to change my mind." I turned to walk away. He followed me out onto the court yelling at full volume. In the jump circle, I turned around and gave the stop sign and said the "E" word. Didn't even phase him. Tweet! "T" Now he was about five feet away, between me and the table. I took one step toward the table and sort of to the side, he stepped up and chested up to me like a teen-age boy challenging a rival. He actually made contact!! I remembered something our teacher had just said in class this last week aobut the physical power of the whistle, so I gave another good, loud tweet. He was the one who put his ear in the way!! And another "T". By now the assistant was out on the floor and got him out the door.

The amazing thing was how calm I felt. I was really focusing all day on keeping my cool and handling the coaches, and it went great!! I really did it!! Wow, I felt very proud and pleased.

To top it all off, he came up after the game and apologized!! He MAY have been afraid of prosecution, but he managed to sound sincere and a little ashamed of himself, so I graciously forgave him and shook his hand and congratulated him on how much his players have improved since I saw them in early January. Boy did I feel big and mature and cool.

Thanks to all the personal attention I have received from you all. I have really done some learning this week, and I am ready for my eval tomorrow. The world is my oyster!