| | Ed Geiger - Assistant Coach
Hello,
My name is Ed Geiger. I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with your kids this year.
A little about myself. Grew up mainly outside of Chicago with a sprinkling of San Diego worked in. Was an All-Northern Illinois baseball and football player in high school. Went to Illinois Valley CC to pursue sports. Marine Corps Desert Storm vet. Bachelors Degree from FAU - Varying Exceptionalities; Masters from Barry University (Ed Leadership).
Have coached multiple sports at the High School level (Wrestling, Basketball, Weightlifting, Girls Flag FB, Girls Water Polo, Softball) but primarily a Football Coach.
Coached FB at Martin County HS (1995-2002); Fort Pierce Central (2003-04), Harrison, and Dwyer High School (2005-2016). Helped with Hobe Sound Ravens 10U (2021)
Currently I am the Assistant Principal over Athletics at South Fork High School (2017-present). Was AP at Dwyer prior to SF.
Chairman - Board of Directors - Treasure Lakes Conference Board of Directors - Play! Treasure Coast Sports Commission FHSAA - District 3 - Representative Assembly Member
Enough about me. This is all about the kids. My thoughts that define any coaching style I might have (and what I have always passed on to assistant coaches):
- Football is the ultimate team game. The lessons taught through well-organized practices, meetings, and games will stick with these young men throughout their lives - making them better people, more employable, reliable and productive. - Fundamentals make practices at every level. My goal is to make your son a better football player and person......not to count how many yards, tackles or touchdowns he makes. We will celebrate success - but we will focus on the process. - Never, ever yell at kids because of your lack of either communication or preparation. - Trust yourself and the process - Coaching is not all about what we know - rather what we can get our kids to do. - Lead by example and be genuine. Kids detect BS better than we do. - Never make selfish decisions that will sour kids taste in their mouths for this wonderful game. At the same time, set clear, high expectations. Let them know how much hard work pays off through your words, drills and practices.
Thanks once again for allowing me this opportunity. Looking forward to working with all of you. Go Dolphins!! |
 | | Pete Tremblay - Head Coach
Coaching football has been an honor for me for the past five years and this will be my second season with the Palm City Dolphins, and first as a head coach. My wife and I have five kids and we have lived in Stuart for over 15 years. Two of our boys share our same passion for football, which ignited and continues to fuel my spark to coach. It’s my belief team sports, such as youth football, provides the opportunity for individual growth and development in young athletes. Growth which strengthens an individual’s self-confidence through overcoming challenges and adversity, both in practice and in games, by working together as a team, in support of one another and achieving more than what was originally thought possible. While winning is an important component to any competition, I do not ascribe to the philosophy of winning at all costs. Success isn’t always measured by the score or the final result, rather in the context of a team sport, is measured in the growth of the team and the individual sacrifice players make towards working to achieve team success. It’s not the team with the best players that win. It’s the players with the best team that wins.
My coaching style focuses on player accountability, commitment, hard work, positive reinforcement and the importance of mastering the fundamentals of the game as a basis for being successful, both individually and collectively as a team. Our coaching staff will hold themselves to even a higher level of accountability in these areas and stress and prioritize the importance of “team” over individual success. Coaching young athletes has been beyond rewarding for me and watching these athletes learn, grow, and continue to be enthusiastic about the game is a privilege. It is something coaches are responsible for in continuing to foster and develop throughout their coaching career.
Players who play for me understand our Dolphin team is a family and that we will work together and support one another, both on and off the field. It is about building trust in each other, while pursuing success together with tenacity, enthusiasm and good sportsmanship, that will cement the Palm City Dolphins as the team to beat in Pop Warner football.
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work….” -Vince Lombardi |
 | | Adam Hamill - Assistant Coach
Hello.
My name is Adam Hamill and this will be my second season coaching with the Palm City Dolphins. People often ask me why do I choose to coach? To understand the answer to that question, you have to understand my deep love for the game of football so allow me to explain. I started Playing football when I was 6 years old and played through elementary school, middle school, high school, college age, semi pro and arena football. I played the game, while then beginning transitioning into coaching, until I was 45.That’s when my body finally said ok, leave the playing to the younger generation. To say I love the game of football would be an understatement but perhaps not for the reasons one might think. Like most, I love the competition the game brings and the physicality of the game because, let’s be honest, you’d have to be a little off to do something as long as I have and not love it as the game of football is so physically demanding on your body. But, what I genuinely love most about the game of football has been the brotherhood that this game creates. There is a bond that develops on a football field that I cannot accurately describe. That bond, has developed some of my best character traits that to this day, still remains at the core of the majority of my deep and personal relationships. If I am fortunate enough to help one young player see and then truly understand that integral piece of football, that goes far beyond the athleticism displayed, then as a coach, I have done more for their lives than any championship trophy will ever do.
If you’ve ever seen the movie Any Given Sunday, you know the iconic speech that Al Pacino gives to motivate his team, that has been falling apart, in order to try and will them together to win. When I heard this for the first time, being a football player for most of my life, this resonated so intensely. This piece, modified with my own personal thought process, is called Any Given Someday.....
When facing life’s challenges, very often, I don’t know what to say to myself really. Three minutes, three hours, three days, three years or three seconds. The time is often irrelevant. We are, at any given moment, at the beginning of the biggest battle of our lives. What if, that battle, all comes down to today? What if, how you choose to face the challenge, that is staring at you like a giant monster across your personal battlefield, is the difference between healing and crumbling? Either you heal and grow or, you wither and fall apart. All too often, we look at these massive obstacles in front of us and say they are insurmountable. That there is no way we can go over or circumvent or even tear down such a wall. Yet, if we attack each challenge, piece by piece, inch by inch or moment by moment, until we are finished with it, no matter how long it takes, then those giant obstacles, aren’t so big after all, are they? Maybe you are sitting there right now, reading this and saying to yourself, that’s me and that is right where I am. Believe me, I know for a fact we have all been there. You still have the ability to choose. You can choose to stay there, in whatever personal battle you are in and get the living crap kicked out of you and blame whatever you want for where you are. But, if that is all you do, complain, you will stay in that or any other struggle, if that is what you choose to do. OR.....You can choose to fight. Fight your way back into the light. You can choose to climb out of or over your struggles. You can begin to tear down the walls that confine you. Piece by piece, moment by moment, inch by inch. If you choose to do that, eventually, you will come to a time where your struggle, no longer holds you in captivity. Now no one can do it for you. But you can’t make excuses like I’m too old, it’s too hard or I just don’t know how. You’re never to old !!!!It’s going to be hard !!!!If you don’t know how, ask someone who does !!!!There is ALWAYS a way !!!!!
When I look around the playing field of my life, I still see obstacles. Some I have overcome. Some, I am still tearing at piece by piece, moment by moment, inch by inch. I remember my once young face, when I see my worn and tattered face, filled with scars and wisdom from battles won and lost. When I look in the mirror and I think of all that I have personally gone through to get to this moment in my life, I am often amazed at how far I have come and yet, even more amazed at how far I still have yet to grow. I look every right or wrong choice that a middle aged man, like myself could make or has made. Believe it or not, I have chased off many who have cared for me and even loved me. There are actually times, even to this day, with all the good things in my life and all the obstacles I have overcome, that I still, can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. But, eventually, piece by piece, moment by moment, inch by inch, that perspective changes and I can again see, the man I am as well as the man I have yet to become. So if you, aren’t liking what you see staring back at you in the mirror, just remember, it can and will change with patience, perseverance and a willingness to keep fighting. Like many, I have learned, that when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That's, part of life. The coolest part about that lesson is that at some point, you find out that life, is just a game of inches. Because in the game of life, just like football, the margin for error is so small. I mean one half step too late or to early, you don't quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break, every moment, every minute, every second.
In this life, you have got to fight for that inch! In this life, you often have tear at ourselves and everyone around us for pieces of that inch. In this life, you often have to CLAW, with our finger nails, for that inch !Because I know, that in this life, when we add up all those inches, that's going to make the difference between WINNING and LOSING ! Between LIVING and DYING !
I'll tell you this and i firmly believe that this is true....That in any fight, it is the guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch and I know, if I am going to have any life worth living anymore, it is because, I am still willing to fight and die for that inch ! Because that is what LIVING is !It is the six inches, right in front of your face !
Now I can't make you do it. You gotta look at the person in the mirror or the you sitting right next to you. Look into their eyes. Now I think, you are going to see, a person who will go that inch with you. I believe, if you look hard enough, you are going to see a person who is capable and who will sacrifice themselves if needed to over come life’s challenges. Because I know, when it comes down to it, you are gonna have to in order to gain those inches..
So, in a nut shell, football has taught me one of my greatest life lessons. That with those others that stand shoulder pad to shoulder pad with me, I can overcome any and all of life’s challenges, inch by inch if needed.
That’s all it is. Inches. So go get yours. Piece by piece. Moment by moment. Inch by inch.
That is why I love this game and that, is why I coach..... Adam... |