The off-season for any sport is crucial to any measure of success a team sees in the coming year. Off-season training is important regardless of the sport because it is a time to rest, develop, improve, and focus on skills that directly and indirectly affect competitive performance. The off-season also allows for a much-needed mental break of the stress of both physical and mental fatigue.
The off-season isn’t about inactivity. It is more so about activity that is different than your primary sport.
I can’t help but look at this moment in time, this off-season as a gift. A time for our coaching families and all families to find the rest we’ve so desperately yearned for. A time to rediscover quality family time that allows for fun competition over board games where everyone in the family wins. At time that brings fun and joy into our homes by learning to bake, pitching in to help with laundry, reading together, or finally having the time to do all the many projects that our hearts wanted to do. A time for dinner that is not rushed to prepare, eat, and enjoyed around the table.
A time that will no doubt prove when this is over that this was the off-season that our families needed. An off-season that better prepared us for what God intends – family QuaranTEAMS that come out of this off-season propelled into season better equipped to serve and build His kingdom.
2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
Connie Davidson has been a coach’s wife for 40 years married to longtime Oxford High School varsity basketball coach and AHSAA Hall of Fame Coach, Larry Davidson, who now serves as Oxford’s Athletic Director. Connie is a former elementary school teacher, reading specialist, and district coach for Oxford City Schools, who now works with Curriculum Associates managing professional development across the country. They have two married daughters and three grandchildren who complete their home team.
Though her coach’s role has now changed, Connie views her time now as God’s nod to her that now is the time to put into practice all He has laid on her heart over the years in her “coachwifelife” – the joys AND the struggles – how to “make the bitter sweet.” Now is “her” overtime with founding and directing Beyond the Bleachers.
She often refers to her coach as Coach Honey, and they truly love their school and community. Most any night of the week, season after season, from one sport to the next, they can be found in the stands and on the sidelines cheering for the Oxford Yellow Jackets. They have no doubt God placed them together where they are and intended for them to stay. How else can you explain one coach in one school doing what he loves for 40+ years?
Only God can do that!
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