The Greenville team was very fortunate to have ECU's Head
Baseball Coach, Cliff Godwin join us for breakfast today at the City Hotel and
Bistro. He is a Greene County native, so he got to reconnect with many of our
field staff who reside there in "GC-God's Country."
Coach Godwin was recently awarded Coach of the Year by
his peers in the league and took ECU to their league championship and made the
first round to the World Series in Omaha.
He shared how his first coaching job was as a volunteer
assistant coach at UNC-W. They were hosting a tournament of the top 150 players
east of the Mississippi there in Wilmington. His responsibilities were to drag
the field, do laundry and then scramble into the stands and take scouting
notes. Not too far away from where Cliff was sitting was a
boyhood friend who was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt University who was
there with the head coach from Vanderbilt. The head coach had been observing
his hustle throughout the day. He leaned over and asked his assistant,
"who is that guy busting his hump down there?" The assistant replied,
"He's the volunteer assistant coach here. We used to play ball together...
great guy." The head coach said to his assistant, "We need a Head of
Baseball Operations at Vanderbilt. Do you think he would be interested?"
That was 2002... 13 years ago. Nowadays he is a championship coach. He said the
following to our team...
"Sometimes you feel like you are doing a menial
job out there by yourself and that it doesn’t matter. But as you hustle even
when nobody is looking- that is integrity and that will take you farther than
anything in your career."
He encouraged the field group to stay strong and always
strive to be champions.
H.B. Moore
Vice President & G.M. Greenville Office
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