Coach Profile: Tim Hammack

An ongoing effort of the Patriot Football 2009 blog will be to profile the CPA coaching staff. Today's edition will feature running backs coach Tim Hammack.

Coach Hammack has been a CPA football coach for three years and has coached track for six years. You'll see him around the practice field helping the running backs improve upon their footwork, ball handling, and pass catching, among other things.

Coach Hammack is a native of Crocker, Missouri and a graduate of Iberia High School near the Lake of the Ozarks. While at Iberia High he played football for four years, playing running back and defensive back. He says he loves to coach sports now because he loves sports and loves watching young people learn, grow, and become better. He also said, "I love competition. What could be better?"

Coach Hammack's favorite scripture is Philippians 2:3-5 which says "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit but in humility consider others better than yourself. Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus." He says he likes this verse because "it reminds me that this is what distinguishes a follower of Christ from other people in the world, having the same mind that Jesus has."

Coach's goal for the team this season is that it achieves true team unity as early as possible. He believes everything else will follow from there. His prayer request for the team is that it would walk in unity and that individual desires would be sacrificed fro those of the team.

Coach Tim has a wife and three children and currently resides in Paola. He enjoys playing guitar and following the Kansas City Chiefs and Missouri Tigers. His "real job" is that of Contract Manager for KGP Logistics (formerly Sprint/Embarq) in New Century, Kansas.

One thing that stands out about Coach Hammack is the way he often runs "Dirty Thirties" with the players. Unlike most men past 29, he can do so without pulling vital muscles or tearing key ligaments. He can also stand upright the next morning! This effort has undoubtedly earned him the respect of the young men he coaches.