Sports Night: Volunteer and be willing to take risks to find success.

This year’s Sports Night held at Mount Michael was attended by 200 guests honoring four Nebraska volunteer coaches. Recipients of the “Benedictine Award” were Mike Beacom a long time volunteer for the Cedar Bluffs community sports program, George Heaston who oversees the St. Thomas Moore football program, Greg McHale a soccer coach and coordinator at St Stephen the Martyr and Dave LaFave who coaches and manages KWAA Buccaneer football. Speaking on behalf of all four honorees Greg McHale spoke of the importance of volunteering and encouraged everyone to become volunteers and share whatever talents they have for the benefit of society.

After the presentation of the awards, Coach Pat Behrns of the UNO Mavericks addressed the crowd. In his talk Coach Behrns told the audience that in our lives we will meet failure but while we don’t like it we need to learn to overcome it. Rebounding form failure shows character. He also said we need to learn to evaluate ourselves to make ourselves better and be determined to make a difference in the world. We need to make good decisions and be willing to take risks to accomplish things. Without risk you may not fail but neither will you truly succeed.

Several of Coach Behrns former players at UNO were in attendence including Mount Michael Alumni Pete Hoppe '90 and John Dustin '97.

The Master of Ceremonies for the event was J. J. Davis of KPTM 42.