Did something good come of the COVID madness? You would be hard-pressed to find things. At Dalat, the restrictions on travel and limitations on all sports activities meant that our Athletic budget was largely untouched in the 2020-2021 year. This was a significant sum that was mostly absorbed to help offset costs in other areas.
However, it did give an opportunity to invest in some equipment. We inked a partnership with our school's health insurance provider and a parent organization that saw a way to invest in our community, and next thing, we had a reasonable chunk of change. After a rig was purchased and most of the basics, including three air bikes and rowers, there was even money left over to train 5 staff members to receive their CrossFit L1 training. This was done online (okay, the online option was also a benefit of COVID) and we had a pretty solid team of coaches ready to get to work.
We had just completed work on a new cafeteria building. This left our old Seaside Café sitting empty with a patio that was within 5 feet of the waves at high tide. The space was sweaty and salty and ultimately proved very corrosive on our equipment, but for training, it was ideal.
Without much else happening for the kids, all of a sudden, each afternoon work
out was packed with kids and our coaching skills of scaling workouts to a huge range of abilities were really tested. But man it was fun while it lasted. Little did we know that a move would be in the works shortly, but that is a story for another day.
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