A couple weeks ago, coach asked all the parents for donations of TVs for the weight room. I don't want to say I ignored the message, but I was hoping someone else would step up and somehow, maybe hear from our boy that televisions had been installed. Coach stated that the monitors would be to show the kids what exercises to move to when weight training, he said currently, all the kids were having to congregate around one TV and that didn't seem efficient. By placing more TVs around the different areas of the weight room, they would then spend more time focusing on the exercises and less time trying to see what was next.
Wife kept pestering me that we should go to Best Buy, which I don't have a problem donating, but I was trying to pay off the last of the Christmas purchases we made before putting more stuff on the credit card. Yesterday just seemed like the perfect opportunity to go and fill the coach's request. Baby A had the track meet, but it didn't start until 3:30pm, but he needed to be at school by 1:00pm. For some reason, they had an in-service day, so there was no school in the morning. I went and dropped him off in time, then came back home. I thought we were just going to wait, but Wife was dressed and ready to leave the house when I got back, so we needed a place to go and kill time. This is when she suggested we go to Best Buy and see the prices.
Coach was asking for four monitors, we decided to get two, someone else can donate the other two. I thought the prices were fair, for 55-inch monitors, we paid $329. These are one of the lesser brands, but we have one of these TVs hanging in one of our rooms and the picture quality is fine. They aren't going to be watching Marvel movies or anything like that, although the boxes did say they are 4K resolution, so they may be better than expected, still they were the cheapest at that size we could find.
We did not do it to gain points with the coach, he already loves our boy, he works hard for his coaches and always carries the right attitude as one of the leaders. If anything, we bought them more as a thank you for what he has done in changing our boy into the young man he is becoming. There is no doubt that Mijo has been made or has become a leader by what happens in that gym, in the weight room to be exact. The other boys look up to him because he works hard and is one of the top two or three strongest overall kids on the team and thus, probably the school. He prides himself in pushing his core group (the coaches assigned lowerclassmen, freshmen and sophomores, to be mentored by the upperclassmen), and he updates us regularly. At the start of the year, some could barely lift the bar (45 pounds) with a pair of 10-pound plates. Some of these kids are now all the way up to 135 pounds (the bar plus a pair of 45-pound plates), which is huge because the 45-pound plates are the ones that count when talking about lifting comes around.
The school may never be a state contender, like a Lake Travis, but if these kids can be molded into fine men and they can have fun and enjoy their time while in high school, learning to work together, I will still say the coaches have done a great job. Just seeing how our boy walks with his head tall and he consistently tries to make the kids around him better, I know that good things are happening in that gym when we are not there parenting.
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