I have coached this team for 2 years, and every year it's a learning experience. I love growing in my own knowledge of hockey while teaching them how to play as well. My favorite part of this season was probably when we went from being 4th seed at the end of the year going into playoffs, and beating the number 1 ranked team (who had only been beaten/tied against twice, and both times were our team). We went on to get 2nd place in the championship game, but I was so proud of them. The kids I coach are like my little siblings, and I've grown in friendships with them, their siblings, parents, etc. I truly appreciate every minute I spend with these kids and I'm looking forward to coaching again next season.

For many years, I have altar served at Gesu. Every Sunday since 6th grade, I have been an altar server with many other Gesu students and graduates. I have been especially helpful with younger kids who are just learning how to serve, as I train them and aid them with anything they need to do.

I was an assistant coach for the Squirt 2 team. I do not play hockey, but it was very fun coaching the kids and watching them improve. I used my lacrosse goalie experience to help the hockey goalies and I was an equipment manager, photographer, videographer, and babysitter for the team (especially on our overnight trip to Michigan). I kept everyone in check, was moral support, and helped explain the rules of the game during film sessions and on the bench. Overall, I was an important asset to the team and I would love to do it again next year.

In late 2020, I asked if I could help coach my brother's team with my dad. My dad said he would have to ask the head coach, Coach Berg, so I waited a full year. Last November, my dad finally asked Coach Berg and he said yes. I started going to practices and games with them, and I had a lot of fun. For one thing, I have never played hockey. It was fun to learn the sport and coach kids that were 7 years younger but 7 times better at it than I was. There were 2 main coaches and 3 student coaches to coach 10 kids. However, if there was a shortage of coaches on the other teams that practiced at the same time as us, I could help out on other teams. For example, when there was no coach for the Mite Blue team, I coached them solo for the entire practice.

My jobs consisted of keeping the kids in line (as some had anger management problems or weren't good with teams), warming up the goalie and sometimes the kids, opening the door during games, and shouting encouragement. I got to know all of the kids and it was so fun to coach them. Overall, I'm hoping to do it again next year, granted my dad can coach again.

At 8:00, we left my house to drive to Gilmour on Saturday, November 6th. When we got to Gilmour, I boarded a bus and we drove to the GCFB. When we got there, we washed our hands and got assigned to a station. My station was loading cereal boxes into the Shelf Stable box. I had to put two boxes of cereal into each box. We worked on that for three hours with a 30 minute break. Overall, we filled 320 shelf stable boxes with 9,600 pounds of food. I went through two pallets of cereal. It was definitely a fun experience, and it means so much that I'm helping people through a hard time.