Along with a new school year for Maypearl ISD there is a new Athletic Director and Head Football Coach: Adam Olson.
Coach Olson is in his 17th year of teaching/coaching and 3rd year with Maypearl ISD. He described the moment he learned that he would be MISD’s next AD/Head Football Coach as “a dream come true.” He added that, “I was extremely happy” and so were my wife, Becki, and our children, Blayze (8) and Phoenyx (6). “We love this community … and we want to give back in every way we can.”
Adam’s leadership philosophy is straightforward: be a servant leader and a difference maker. A servant leader is someone who finds needs in the organization and then empowers people to address those needs. But it doesn’t stop there. If needed, a servant leader will work alongside anyone and everyone to get the job done noting that “there is no job too small.” A difference maker adds value to whatever he/she does leaving “[it] better than what it was before.”
Olson believes that overall leadership is about relationships, not just with the athletes and their families and coaches, but also with all the MISD faculty and staff and the Maypearl community.
Goals for the program? Coach Olson has two. First, “whenever a kid leaves here I want them to be more prepared for life after high school than they were when they came into our program.” Second, “athletically, I want us to be as competitive in every sport as possible. Classy. Respectful. And play really, really hard.”
For his athletes, Coach Olson looks for effort and character and when building a program “you have to have your best players be your hardest workers and when you have that engrained into your culture you really got something.”
It’s a new year. It’s a dream come true. And Coach Adam Olson is ready to serve and to make a difference.
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