I can't remember if I have written much about Nick's fishing team (imagine that). In 2020 I wrote a proposal to our school board about starting a fishing team at our school. It must have been all in God's timing because other proposals had been presented in the past but this time the board approved it. After it was approved me and other friends of mine put our heads together to come up with a plan. I'll never forget that first meeting me, Ryan Komnick and Scott Boots had with our assistant A.D. Sure we had some ideas of what we wanted the club to look like but getting it off the ground and running was an entirely different story. We needed coaches, money and boats! By the summer of 2021 we were meeting pretty regularly and we had the normal bumps in the road. A few disagreements along the way but we worked through it and came up with a plan. Ryan enlisted Jon Wise as our coach and it literally exploded (in a good way) from there. Jon enlisted other men as boat captains and tournaments were scheduled. Nick started fishing tourneys with this team in March 2022. On May 9 we participated in our first ever IHSA sectionals and would you believe we came in first place? Ryan was crying he was so excited. Our boys were over the moon and our captains were thrilled. Two of our boys are headed to state next week and although Nick isn't fishing at state he is going along to cheer his teammates on. Of course Nick is in his element. He has such a passion for fishing. My prayer continues to be that God uses that passion for His glory and through fishing Nick can truly come to know his creator.
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