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Message: [QUOTE="UconnMark, post: 2441771, member: 5659"] Year after year, we get to see what wonderful parents our young women have raised! We see the players close to 40 times a year and, every so often, we get to know the wonderful people who sent their young women to us. They say that the coaches and the program have changed not only the young women but the themselves as well. When we see the finished product off the court, I marvel at how articulate and purpose driven these young folks have become. Many of them have already become role models for service to others. To say we have been blessed seems like an understatement to me. Gabby's parents and family are but one more example of this. One of my favorite authors is Andy Andrews. A few years ago, I sent Coach Geno two of Andy's books. One was about "perspective" affecting your attitude. The second dealt with parenting skills. Even though I knew the coach would get an A+ in both areas, I thought he might enjoy it and perhaps pass it on. Andrews asks a cogent question in the parenting book, i.e., What generation had the most positive impact on our country? Of course the easy answer is "The Greatest Generation", the group that sacrificed and bleed to save us from totalitarianism. But Andrews says you would be wrong! It was the parents of the men and women of the Greatest Generation that raised them with the values and will to struggle against great odds that were truly the greatest generation. I am ever so thankful for the wonderful parents that have entrusted their young women to their surrogate parents, Geno & the coaching staff, for four years. I think they will be very pleased with the "finished product". [/QUOTE]

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