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LEFT Hannah with her dad Chris, mom
Sheri and 9-year-old brother Rylan whom
she calls "her best friend."
football coach to join the football team,
it’s time to get out the horn and start to
holler.
To be perfectly honest, I did not
want any of my children, including my
son Micah to play football. It wasn’t just
that I didn’t get the whole yards thing
or why the clock seemed to randomly
run sometimes and not at other times.
Watching my kid get hit by really big
guys made the potential for a concussion
a little too real for me. But when Micah
decided it was something he wanted
to do in the ninth grade, I was at every
game. Thankfully, it only took one year
for him to decide he preferred hunting
and fishing to getting knocked around
and run over. And if he had made a
different decision, I would have been
there for every game with a shaker and a
horn and a prayer.
After Hannah’s winning kick on
November 15, 2017, that sent the
Crusaders to the playoffs, a reporter
from WJCL asked Coach Smith about
the girl on his football team. Coach
Smith quickly responded: “I’ve got a
little girl, and I hope she one day grows
up to be like Hannah.”
I’ve got nine grandchildren: seven
are girls. And Coach Smith is right. It’s
an honor to have Hannah Keene as a
role model. Not simply because she’s an
amazing kicker and plays for the RTCA
football team, but because she fearlessly
follows her heart. TCM
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