Merry Christmas!

As we enter the holiday season, this article on the front page of the Waterloo Region Record caught my attention this morning.

A father-son coaching partnership in Waterloo Minor Hockey has won an Ontario award from the hockey coaches association for the work with the house league team they coach in Waterloo. The remarkable part of the story is that the son Tony, is 12 years old and has Down Syndrome.

You can check out the article HERE. It's a great story, and really appropriate for the holiday season.

Having raised two sons, I have learned and strongly believe that children become a product of their environment, or as they say, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree." You can bet that when the kids on that team grow up, they won't have a clue how many games their team won or lost, but for sure, they will remember the coaches.

Hats off to Mark and Tony... and Merry Christmas!