Mr. Hostert
Mr. Hostert is a massive role model in my life. He was my basketball coach in 7th grade, and our team was really successful. No matter what, he never got mad at the refs even at Elkhorn Valley, and I think everyone thought those refs were terrible. I respect the calm matter and the calm way he approaches things. Someday, I want to be a calm person and realize that I can only affect things within my reach. He really helped me this last year during the basketball season to improve and grow. He has taught me a lot and I’m grateful for it.
Mr. Hostert is about the average height for a man and he is muscular and built. Mr. Hostert always wears formal pants like khakis or black slacks. He walks straight and always gives you a fist bump and asks you how it’s going. He claps a lot during sporting events especially when the eagles are winning. He has a shiny, silky bald head and a smoothly shaved beard. He works at O’Neill public schools as our athletic director. He works hard and does a good job organizing all of our tournaments and games.
He is very kind and friendly. Even when he is having a tough and stressful day, he will always find a way to get a “how’s it going” in. He is hardworking and encourages everyone around him to do better and improve themselves. He is outgoing and tough like a rock mentally. He is nice and respectful, but if you are messing around then he will call you out on it, because he cares about you, and doesn’t want people to put a bad name on you. One day in practice a few of our teammates were dunking the ball on the shorter hoop for little kids, and we all had to run for it. He seems to be in a happy smiling mood most of the time, and it seems like he loves working with us in practice and pushing us to be better. He wants to teach us to be the best student-athletes that we can be. He has a cool, smooth, outgoing personality that is good for coaching. He cares more about us than anything, and if we ever need anything, we can always go tell him. I trust him as much as I trust my parents. He will understand everything and is easy to relate to.
When we were going to the West Holt tournament, I went to get off the bus in the frigid weather and stepped down onto the frozen solid ice and crash! I slipped and my knee went under me and collided with the ice. I tried to get up, but the pain was so bad that I couldn’t walk. Coach Hostert helped me into the building and he said that I needed to get some ice on my knee quickly to numb the pain so I could play in the game. The coach said if it hurt too much to play I need to tell him that I can’t play. It hurt throughout the whole day and c\Coach Hostert was skeptical whether to play me or not. I started all of the games in the tournament, and it really showed me how much he cared about me, more than if our team won the game or not. I told him that I wanted to play, and he said I could, but he said that I had to take a smaller number of minutes. He showed that he cared and that was a trait that is really important.
The positive influence that I have learned from Coach Hostert is that you have to stay determined and keep working to improve yourself. I have learned that nothing comes to you, you have to work for it. Staying calm is something we all need like Coach Hostert. Being respectable is something everyone can work on whether you’re the best player on the team or the worst, we can respect everyone’s ability because we can all benefit the team. I will never forget the 7th-grade year and the effect that he had on me. Coach Hostert is a role model in my life and someday I want to coach basketball and hopefully, I will have the same influence on those kids as he had on me.
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