Spring Break
Farewell, thank you Steve Koch
James Mason
Issue date: 6/6/08 Section: Sports
As a writer, the end has always been the hardest part. You always want to end with the perfect line or the prefect quote. You want the end to stand out because it's assumed that it's what people will remember the most.
I'm graduating this term, so this will be my last column. I came into the column with a similar mindset. How do I want to go out? Did I want to provide an interesting perspective on a story that people have been talking about? Did I want to write about something controversial, like race? Did I want to talk about the need for an additional recreational field at Drexel? I tossed a lot of these ideas around in my head before I realized what I needed to do.
I want to take this space to thank someone who has really been an instrumental part in my development at Drexel as a student and as a person in general. This person has been a mentor to me and is someone I look up to. This person, of course, is Steve Koch.
Steve is the coordinator of intramurals here at Drexel. I approached Steve at a work study job fair at the beginning of my first term here at Drexel in 2003, and the rest is history. With Steve's help, I moved up from a scorekeeper and official, to one of the most respected officials in the program and eventually supervisor.
Not only did I want to thank Steve, but I wanted to provide a better picture of Steve. Everybody knows Steve around campus. For some, he's a good guy that helped them through a fundraising event or allowed their team to join the league even though signups were over. To others, he's the dude that kicked them out of a game or threw their team out for bad sportsmanship.
For those who work for him, I think we all look up to Steve in one way or another. With me, Steve has always had a lot of confidence in me as an official and a person. He's always telling me I could ref professionally if I wanted to, which is very gratifying coming from someone who is the son of a high school basketball coach and knows the game very well. With a lot of people, sometimes Steve believes in them more than they believe in themselves.
I'm graduating this term, so this will be my last column. I came into the column with a similar mindset. How do I want to go out? Did I want to provide an interesting perspective on a story that people have been talking about? Did I want to write about something controversial, like race? Did I want to talk about the need for an additional recreational field at Drexel? I tossed a lot of these ideas around in my head before I realized what I needed to do.
I want to take this space to thank someone who has really been an instrumental part in my development at Drexel as a student and as a person in general. This person has been a mentor to me and is someone I look up to. This person, of course, is Steve Koch.
Steve is the coordinator of intramurals here at Drexel. I approached Steve at a work study job fair at the beginning of my first term here at Drexel in 2003, and the rest is history. With Steve's help, I moved up from a scorekeeper and official, to one of the most respected officials in the program and eventually supervisor.
Not only did I want to thank Steve, but I wanted to provide a better picture of Steve. Everybody knows Steve around campus. For some, he's a good guy that helped them through a fundraising event or allowed their team to join the league even though signups were over. To others, he's the dude that kicked them out of a game or threw their team out for bad sportsmanship.
For those who work for him, I think we all look up to Steve in one way or another. With me, Steve has always had a lot of confidence in me as an official and a person. He's always telling me I could ref professionally if I wanted to, which is very gratifying coming from someone who is the son of a high school basketball coach and knows the game very well. With a lot of people, sometimes Steve believes in them more than they believe in themselves.
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