/news/2014/06/10/william-j-leahey-jr-52-celebrated-bates-baseball-coach-receives-papaioanou-award-for-extraordinary-service/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:02:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 /news/2014/06/10/william-j-leahey-jr-52-celebrated-bates-baseball-coach-receives-papaioanou-award-for-extraordinary-service/#comment-130678 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:39:31 +0000 /news/?p=79473#comment-130678 Coach Leahey was my raquetball teacher for a quarter in PE… seems trivial, I know, relative to his years as baseball and football coach, but I never forgot him. I was half-hearted, as best, about having to take PE, just for the graduation requirement, but I ended up with a love of the game and played it for many years afterward… I guess that says it all about Coach Leahey’s teaching.

]]> /news/2014/06/10/william-j-leahey-jr-52-celebrated-bates-baseball-coach-receives-papaioanou-award-for-extraordinary-service/#comment-51965 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:48:47 +0000 /news/?p=79473#comment-51965 It was my great pleasure to have been coached by Chick as a jayvee and varsity basketball player for four years. Of all the teachers I encountered at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he was far and away the best. A most deserving honor, indeed.

]]> /news/2014/06/10/william-j-leahey-jr-52-celebrated-bates-baseball-coach-receives-papaioanou-award-for-extraordinary-service/#comment-51962 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:22:34 +0000 /news/?p=79473#comment-51962 Let’s not forget that Chick, in addition to being the head baseball coach, was also an assistant football coach for many years where he had the opportunity to touch the lives of many additional ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student/athletes, myself among them.

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