CORAL GABLES, Fla. (WSVN) – A beloved employees member at a South Florida college obtained a candy shock from college students who stated she made an affect on their lives.
The shock occasion was held Thursday morning at Coral Gables Excessive Faculty, 450 Byrd Street, for Alexia Clark, the varsity’s athletic coach.
“I am overwhelmed in the easiest way,” Clark stated.
College students made gestures and placed on their greatest garments to specific their gratitude to their beloved coach.
“They stated, ‘We’d like you to come back in early immediately.’ I assumed, ‘Okay,’” Clark stated. “Often I begin work at 12 o’clock, so I am confused why I have to go to work at 9 o’clock.”
Clark, affectionately identified to college students as “Miss Lex,” was acknowledged by the group Buddy’s Helpers as a part of Nationwide Self-Care Month.
“This can be a nice alternative to acknowledge that in her tenure she is bettering the lives of 1000’s of youngsters,” stated a member of the group.
The group gifted her with tickets to Saturday’s Inter Miami recreation and donated cash to no matter trigger she chooses to signify.
“That is completely well-deserved for Lex,” stated Louis A. Romero, the varsity’s athletic director. “Every part she does is tremendous, tremendous, tremendous.”
Clark spends his time serving to student-athletes take care of accidents day in and day trip, comparable to Julian Gonzales, who suffered a concussion throughout a soccer recreation.
“I am going to at all times say, and I assist, she’s one of the best coach in Dade County, possibly one of the best coach on the planet,” Gonzalez stated. “She recognized me in the course of the recreation. She took me to the hospital. We began getting again on the court docket and she or he was by my aspect each step of the way in which. She was proper there. If she hadn’t been there, I do not know the place I’d be proper now.”
Others say Clark did far more than that.
“She helps us develop in each side as an athletic coach and as an individual,” one pupil stated.
Gratitude led Clark to replicate on self-care.
“A variety of occasions, in highschool, a whole lot of children do not really know what self-care is,” she stated.
That is one thing Clark typically teaches her college students.
“It requires them to study loads about themselves. Hydration, food regimen, even psychological well being. I do have children are available in and you may see one thing is a little bit off,” she stated. “I am excited to be part of it and see them develop. For one thing so younger to be despatched into this world now.”
Clark stated she was blissful to donate to a trigger that helps with youth psychological well being.
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