FOREVER THEIR COACH, "All Rapped Up” is a circle of life, positive story, about a young ice hockey coach who followed in the coaching footsteps of his father and the man who taught him how to skate and play the game. You will read how in his 9 years of coaching at the Pee Wee & Bantam levels, Pat Doyle and his teams overcame the odds year after year to achieve personal success. In this day and age, it seems like all you hear in the media are negative stories surrounding youth sports with coaches, parents and players. However, in this book you’ll discover how “Coach Patty” had a unique relationship with all of his players and how they had a unique relationship with him as well. He was their coach, their friend, and their big brother. Someone they could relate to in the formative years of their lives. Read about how he connected with each of them by not only teaching them how to play hockey, but also through his wild, crazy, flamboyant style, a style that became known as “Patty Hockey.” He helped guide 2 teams to the National Finals, but more importantly he had a special bond with each of his players and all of his teams. Read how his players had a once in a lifetime experience while playing a sport that they loved. This book takes you inside the time his players helped him over come the tragic death of his father in 1995 and read how a year later he and his players came to the assistance of a teammate after the heartbreaking death of his father as he stood in the stands watching a game. Year after year each one of his teams had a one of a kind distinction that became their identity and definition and he fondly remembers each team that way. And read how “Coach Patty” took the torch that was passed down to him by his coach, and passed it down to his players, who have since grown up and as young adults, are now coaching the sport of ice hockey and teaching children how to play the game, just like their coach did for them, and the “circle of his hockey life” was completed. Understand why he will always be “Forever their Coach.” A heart warming, feel good, must read novel of triumph over tragedy, jubilation in happy times and comfort during the sad.
A Coach is forever, an indelible figure in your life. During my 9 years of coaching youth hockey, I have had not only the pleasure of teaching children how to play the game, but I have also had the privilege of shaping the lives of 135 kids in their formative years. I will forever be indebted to them for giving me that opportunity. Win or lose, I will always be grateful to them for working their hardest to achieve success week after week and year after year. I can only hope that they feel the same way towards me. I will never forget the sacrifices they made to be part of our program. As a volunteer, I have traveled millions of miles for millions of smiles. Every kid who has ever played for me will always be a special part of my life. They will always hold a special place in my heart, a place that I call “Patty’s Hall of Fame.” Our everlasting bond of friendship is a unique one and it never will be broken. I always told them to enjoy every minute that they played the game because someday you will look back on it and say, “Those were the best days of my life.” Sometimes I run into some of my former players at Craig’s Restaurant in Brick Township, N.J., or at The Idle Hour Restaurant in Point Pleasant, N.J., and we talk about all the great times that we shared together like it was yesterday. I hope when they get together and recall their youth hockey glory days, they say to each other, “I’ll never forget the time when I was playing for Patty and ______________________.” And they can fill in that sentence with never ending memories for the rest of their lives. I am proud to see them now as adults succeeding in their lives in whatever endeavor they have chosen. Some of them are now coaches themselves, and I think that is the greatest compliment that you can pay to your former coach. They tell me that all of the drills that I did with them are the same ones that they do with their kids, and when they are thinking of things to say to their team in the locker room or things get tough in a game situation, they think back to what I said to them or the way I did it with them, and they do that for their team. Occasionally, I will get the chance to go see one of my former players coaching and I just look at them and beam with pride. I see them standing behind the bench coaching their team, and it takes me back to the days when I was coaching them. I feel a huge sense of pride and joy because it has come full circle. The same torch that Coach Blackburn passed down to me, I have now passed down to them, and hopefully some day when my former players who are coaching now, talk to any one of the kids who ever played hockey for them, they will know what it means to be Forever Their Coach.
About Patrick N. Doyle
Pat Doyle is a 50 year old life-long resident of Brick Township, New Jersey and has dedicated most of his adult life to coaching youth hockey. He started playing hockey in the recreation leagues at the age of 6. He then played for the Brick Hockey Club and then went on to play for Brick High School in 1975. He was a coach in the Brick Hockey Club at the Pee-Wee & Bantam levels from 1989-1998. He successfully guided 2 teams to the National Finals in 1991 & 1994. More importantly was the unique relationship he established with his players each year and the unique connection his players had with him. He was their coach, their big brother and most of all, their friend. Year after year his teams played together for a common cause while he instilled the most important aspect of the game and that is to play it for fun. In this book you will read how each team identified themselves and why they have a certain distinction to Pat and why he will always be “Forever their Coach.”
FOREVER THEIR COACH, "All Rapped Up” is a circle of life, positive story, about a young ice hockey coach who followed in the coaching footsteps of his father and the man who taught him how to skate and play the game. You will read how in his 9 years of coaching at the Pee Wee & Bantam levels, Pat Doyle and his teams overcame the odds year after year to achieve personal success. In this day and age, it seems like all you hear in the media are negative stories surrounding youth sports with coaches, parents and players. However, in this book you’ll discover how “Coach Patty” had a unique relationship with all of his players and how they had a unique relationship with him as well. He was their coach, their friend, and their big brother. Someone they could relate to in the formative years of their lives. Read about how he connected with each of them by not only teaching them how to play hockey, but also through his wild, crazy, flamboyant style, a style that became known as “Patty Hockey.” He helped guide 2 teams to the National Finals, but more importantly he had a special bond with each of his players and all of his teams. Read how his players had a once in a lifetime experience while playing a sport that they loved. This book takes you inside the time his players helped him over come the tragic death of his father in 1995 and read how a year later he and his players came to the assistance of a teammate after the heartbreaking death of his father as he stood in the stands watching a game. Year after year each one of his teams had a one of a kind distinction that became their identity and definition and he fondly remembers each team that way. And read how “Coach Patty” took the torch that was passed down to him by his coach, and passed it down to his players, who have since grown up and as young adults, are now coaching the sport of ice hockey and teaching children how to play the game, just like their coach did for them, and the “circle of his hockey life” was completed. Understand why he will always be “Forever their Coach.” A heart warming, feel good, must read novel of triumph over tragedy, jubilation in happy times and comfort during the sad.
Pat Doyle is a 50 year old life-long resident of Brick Township, New Jersey and has dedicated most of his adult life to coaching youth hockey. He started playing hockey in the recreation leagues at the age of 6. He then played for the Brick Hockey Club and then went on to play for Brick High School in 1975. He was a coach in the Brick Hockey Club at the Pee-Wee & Bantam levels from 1989-1998. He successfully guided 2 teams to the National Finals in 1991 & 1994. More importantly was the unique relationship he established with his players each year and the unique connection his players had with him. He was their coach, their big brother and most of all, their friend. Year after year his teams played together for a common cause while he instilled the most important aspect of the game and that is to play it for fun. In this book you will read how each team identified themselves and why they have a certain distinction to Pat and why he will always be “Forever their Coach.”