09/13/2026
🏐🏈 It Takes More Than a Team
Sometimes the people who give the most to a program are the ones whose sacrifices happen quietly, somewhere between one sideline and the next.
This photo says a lot without showing her face.
She’s the head volleyball coach at Hobgood Charter School, yet on this particular day, she had to miss one of her own volleyball games. Not because her commitment to those athletes was any less, but because sometimes one person carries more than one role, and there simply isn’t a way to be everywhere at once.
Instead, she was standing on the sidelines of an away football game, clipboard in hand, watching live as our team was playing and doing another job that needed to be done.
Coach.
Scorekeeper.
Supporter.
Fan.
And perhaps the most important title of all MOM! 
People see the games. They see the athletes under the lights, the coaches calling plays, the scoreboard and the final score. What they don’t always see are the people behind all of it, the ones rearranging schedules, traveling, filling gaps, showing up tired, missing one thing because they’re needed somewhere else, and constantly figuring out how to be there for their own children while still showing up for everyone else’s.
That’s what makes a school athletic program more than a collection of teams. It makes it a family.
As someone standing behind the camera watching it all unfold, I’m proud of what I see at Hobgood. I’m proud of the coaches, parents, volunteers, staff and community members who step into whatever role is needed to make sure these kids have the opportunity to compete.
Because no successful team is built by the people wearing jerseys alone.
It’s built by the people holding clipboards. The people keeping score. The people driving to away games. The people coaching another sport. The parents sitting in the stands. The volunteers nobody applauds. And the mothers and fathers trying to make sure they don’t miss the moments that matter while helping create those moments for somebody else’s child.
Sometimes “Raider Pride” isn’t something you yell from the stands.
Sometimes it looks exactly like this, standing quietly on a sideline, doing whatever needs to be done because your school, your athletes, your team, and your family are worth showing up for.
That is community.
That is sacrifice.
That is leadership.
And that is Raider Pride. 🧡🏐🏈
And beyond proud to be able to stand with this beautiful, incredible woman on the sidelines as I have gotten to know her over the last few tiny years. Pam, thank you for being so kind, welcoming, generous, and loving.
