How cool is this? - ‘The Coach’s Wife’ - will be on the radio Thursday at 11 a.m. PST. ‘
- author of
- will interview Carolyn on her radio show. Frazier-Turner is the wife of Prairie View A&M football coach Henry C. Frazier III. You can listen live using the
below or listen later, using the same link, when the show is archived.
There’s no way to explain the long absence except it was a long season and it seems as if I have been unable to get back on track. I eventually will share with you some of the things I observed and learned along the way. These last few weeks will be hectic as summer approaches. Remember to enjoy the good times.
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A big shout-out to Carolyn Allen - - whose husband
, is guiding the
in the State Semi’s this weekend in Mesquite. The Coach always says “good things happen to good people.” Remember to enjoy this week.
When I turn on the front porch light before turning in each evening, I always do a visual sweep of the concrete slab to make sure one of my many men (UPS, Fed Ex, USPS) haven’t left something for me. I love receiving packages and mail, especially when it’s unexpected. I also enjoy receiving unexpected items in my email inbox, as well. I have written before about book
. I had signed up for her email newsletter awhile back but had forgotten about it. And, yesterday, it was such a neat surprise to receive a much-needed pick-me-up on my computer screen. Look
for details. And, when you sign up, you are entered in a contest for a free drawing. Last month’s winner received a $100 gift card from Amazon.
Nothing ages a coaches wife more than when the children her husband coaches go off to college, graduate, get married, have kids…I just returned from the nuptials of one of our favorite families from three coaching stops ago. While I watched from the second-to-last row, I kept wondering who was this young man in front of us, declaring his love for a woman I had never met? Was it that long ago that he cradled my 3-year-old daughter in the hallway of an old gym during a marathon basketball tournament in the Texas Panhandle? Were the boys walking down the aisle with bridesmaids by their sides really the same ones who came by on sleepy Sunday afternoons for the key to paradise (the gym) really now engineers? Who were they?
A sense of pride overtook me, but also a sense of longing. Just like the mother who was giving her son to another woman, I longed for the days when a key to the gym was as much of the future that they could fathom.
Mothers and fathers often long for the days of yesteryear. I long for them as well with my own children and for those I have watched, nurtured, cheered, coddled, and loved go on. There’s a certain kind of love you have for a group of teen-agers who work so hard for the man you love. I miss those kids, and I miss those towns and I miss those times in the stands. But there’s a new year ahead of us and I look forward to starting the process all over again and one day enjoying watching them walk down the aisle. God bless the children we coach and the parents who raise them.
How cute is in this photo? I like how she is holding - no cradling her daughter, Molly. And that the color that pulls them all together - black - starts with the masculinity of her son, Riley’s black Southlake Carroll pants, and transitions down the line to her floral print shift. Southlake always holds a special charm for me because of
- an outdoor shopping mall that is aesthetically charming and where I snagged two
sweaters at 50 percent off and a pair of
shorts at 75 percent off. The story in
covers Southlake Carroll’s quick emergence as a dominant powerhouse and one of the most desired places to live in North Texas. Talk about a pressure cooker for a coaches wife. What made me think of Elizabeth Dodge tonight were the highlights just shown on ESPN of the
- OU game. Her husband recently moved to head the Denton program, which ushers in different responsibilities and pressure for the wife. As always before a game, I pray first for the safety of the players, but secondly, I pray for the wives and a sense of calmness. Prayers were lifted to Elizabeth Dodge tonight and all other wives of college coaches. Be blessed.
I don’t know about y’all but I have been listening to the soundtrack of and High School Musical II (I know I’m a middle-aged coaches wife but I love those movies) and that, coupled with all the brightly colored school shirts I just saw in town at the grocery store and I am pumped for tonight’s kick-off. Isn’t the first of the season grand?
Is anyone else enjoying Lubbock’s run in the ? It’s been fun to watch one of my “former hometowns” march toward a World Series Crown. I’ve never been interested in the stories focusing on batting averages or the pitch count (too many years with my desk adjoining the sports department) - I’ve always had a soft spot for the other types of stories surrounding sporting events. I particularly enjoyed this story in the
from a Mom’s perspective. Not only am I the wife of a coach, but I’m the mother of athletes and I can relate. So, when I saw the mother of 12-year-old player Bo Ricks trying to give him a good-bye peck in a dark parking lot before the team left for Williamsport, Pa., I could relate to the mother leaning forward and the boy pulling away - too old to kiss his mother in public. But I loved that photo and have gone back to it many times since it first ran on August 16. Tonight, I looked again and I saw something I had missed before. In the shadows, nearly hidden I can see his hand reaching for her’s and holding on. I know that hand. And, I have felt it many times. My thoughts tomorrow will be with the Mom’s, hoping they can hold on….and for the boys who will need that hand after it’s all said and done.
When I was still trying to find my way early on in my married life, I picked up a copy of The Coach’s Wife, a well-written, easy-to-read manual penned by Carolyn Allen, a coach’s wife from Texas. She is the husband of Highland Park, Texas, Head Football Coach Randy Allen (who by the way is following in his wife’s footsteps with his own book, Coaching By The Book, available at .)
Finally, someone understood my life and lived to tell about it but most of all did so with much enthusiasm and joy.
One chapter particularly caught my attention. In the midst of raising four children, aged newborn to 6, I would only describe my wardrobe as…how do I put this…easy and sloppy and lots of elastic. Since my post-pregnancy body was not quite spunky, I chose to wear the team’s athletic shorts and athletic T’s (24 hours a day).
One day while herding three toddlers and carrying a baby seat into the bank (I was so proud just to get out of the house with my teeth brushed), a dear woman asked me kindly, “Is there a pep rally today?” Looking back, she was trying to tell me in the only the way a Texas woman can to tell you to “suck it up and pull yourself together.” At that moment, I remembered Carolyn’s admonishment to look our best - not for the Coach but for ourselves.
It was a turning point. I still wore the team-issued grays but maybe with a swipe of lipstick (OK, maybe it was cherry ChapStick). It may not be what Carolyn was suggesting, but at that point in my life, taking a shower before football practice was over was a major accomplishment.
Check out the book. It can be ordered through 
or by emailing Carolyn at carolyn@thecoachswife.com
The cost is $15, and has been revised as Carolyn says “to bring it into the 21st Century.” And, when I wrote Carolyn a thank you note telling her how much I appreciated the wise words, I received a sweet, hand-written note. Tell me what you think.
I am the mother of four and the wife of a high school coach in a small town in Texas. It is a job in which I was unprepared but which I have embraced with passion, tears and enthusiasm.
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