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Casey Wooddell loved everything about his days as a youngster playing sports—the games, the coaches, the friendships, and the experiences.
“I still reminisce with my childhood friends about the good old days of playing ball together,” says Wooddell, the sports-activities supervisor for the Oxford Parks & Recreation Department in Ohio. “We hardly ever talk about the games we won, but more about specific experiences and about our coaches. The awards certainly aren’t as valuable as the memories.”
It’s those fun-filled memories that help fuel his efforts to ensure that youngsters in his program walk away with those same types of rewarding experiences that he enjoyed playing on the fields and courts during his youth.