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presents BEHIND

THE BENCH

An Interview with Matthew Bateman

“When I offered to be an
By Molly Kett
assistant coach after a year of
ocal coach Matthew assisting in drills, I found out

LBateman didn’t plan to get how complex the game was,”
into coaching but has enjoyed it says Bateman. “The humorous
ever since he started. thing about when I started
coaching was that I explained to
“The main reason why I
Kirby that I had never played the
got involved with coaching
game of football. His response
was more of a fluke then was ‘there are coaches in the NFL
anything. My son, who is now that never played.’ After the first
a four-year veteran with the few practices and games, I could
peewee Wildcats, was playing
see the happiness on the kids’
spring football at the time,” says
faces when they learned how
Bateman. “The head coach of to do a football drill effectively
his team, Kirby Camplin, needed or made a huge play in a game.
some help holding hand shields Coaching has a sense of pride in
and gathering equipment for
the sense that you are committed
drills. That’s how it all began.”
to the sport, the community, and
From there, Bateman says most importantly the athletes.”
he could see the importance of
As far as his own athletic
helping the young athletes.
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