Friday, June 4, 2010

NEW PRIORITIES: MY DECISION TO MOVE FORWARD

I have just forwarded the following letter to the school's athletic director and administration:

Mick et al:

With the benefit of time since the final game of the VFMC Women's basketball season to reflect on all that was accomplished last season, and after consultations with others including those on campus and off-- especially those with my life partner, Barbara Brooks (Pomerantz) as we now turn our own focus to the new and very exciting personal and professional priorities we have in front of us the remainder of this year and beyond--I have decided to leave it to a successor of the school's choosing to lead the VFMC Women's Basketball team into the next season.

To have established the foundation for and realized the unprecedented experience of the 2009-2010 women's basketball program (including but not nearly limited to the institution's first ever women's intercollegiate athletic victories), can best be summarized the way it was described to me the first day on the job last summer: "To be a successful coach at VFMAC is unlike any other experience...It will challenge you in every which way...and more...as a leader...as a motivator...as a teacher...It's a bit like paraphrasing the Frank Sinatra song New York New York: If you can be successful there, you can do so anywhere..."

It did...and I have appreciated the opportunity...

Kindest personal regards.

Dick Pomerantz

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