Penndemonium
PhD Student
Posts: 1903
Reg: 11-29-04
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03-03-24 06:45 PM - Post#364427
In response to penn nation
I was friendly with a family that had the national #2 ranked squash junior several years back. The son eventually chose Princeton, but the father told me that Penn was going to become a powerhouse - that all the kids wanted to play for Gilly even though he wasn't a coach of the same fame as the Harvard coach and a few others. I think he had recruited the #1 player that year. He was just known as a coach that would intensely focus on the player, treat them with respect, honesty, and integrity. He was also known as someone who would make them be the best they could be - as he did for himself as a student-athlete. They said he was simply the hardest working of many great coaches. The players knew the coach would be working even harder than they were. That is quite a bit different from what we are hearing about our basketball recruiting.
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