Tag: coach
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Meet Torg
Seven years ago I made the switch from high school English teacher and basketball coach to writer and professor. Since that time, I’ve been blessed to have been hired to teach First Year Writing courses at St. John’s University in New York. I write novels, scripts, publish a podcast, and have just sent out my…
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The Real “Cheese” Behind the Fictional One: Covington High School Coach and Olivet Nazarene University grad, Kent Chezem
In my novel Love on the Big Screen, the protagonist Zuke has a sort of love rival named “Cheese.” It’s a name I took from real life from my friend and former teammate, Kent Chezem. I remember that one of the coaches at Olivet Nazarene University where we were teammates used to always call Kent…