AllStar Magazine July 2012--Girls - Allstarmagazine.com
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Photos courtesy Jim Guest<br />
“Success Lies Not in Being the Best,<br />
But in Doing Your Best” –Jim Guest<br />
Q: What is your coaching philosophy?<br />
A: My coaching philosophy revolves around getting my<br />
athletes to participate in <strong>com</strong>petition at the highest level<br />
possible. At the end of the season, the best athletes/<br />
highest scoring athletes <strong>com</strong>pete.<br />
Q: Is there something you’ve learned over time that<br />
you wish you’d known when you started coaching?<br />
A: Every day, I learned something new. I would have been<br />
more successful sooner. This is why it is called experience.<br />
Q: How do you promote school spirit?<br />
A: “The name on the front of the uniform is more important<br />
than the name on the back!!”<br />
Q: What quality should every coach<br />
possess?<br />
A: I always go back to that we are here to<br />
help people. Sometimes we help people<br />
more with things outside the lines than<br />
we do with a skill in the <strong>com</strong>petitive arena.<br />
Q: What is the biggest mistake you see<br />
other coaches make?<br />
A: They look at the score board as a determination<br />
for success or failure.<br />
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SUBURBAN<br />
NORTH<br />
2005 2007 2008<br />
Fremd <strong>Girls</strong> Gymnastics State Titles<br />
Lead by Jim Guest<br />
Story by Christy Michals<br />
Jim’s plans for the future include spending<br />
time with his wife Laurie and watching their daughters<br />
<strong>com</strong>pete in dance and poms. “Krista, my oldest<br />
daughter who is a senior, is the captain of the poms<br />
team at Fremd High School. Ashley, who is going to<br />
be a junior, is on the varsity pom team and dances<br />
<strong>com</strong>petitively. Lauren, who will be in seventh grade,<br />
dances <strong>com</strong>petitively at a studio and has performed<br />
in the Nutcracker Ballett the last two years.”<br />
Fremd gymnasts will still see Coach Guest in the<br />
halls. Jim added that “I am the current chess team<br />
coach at Fremd High School. I am also the Driver<br />
Education Department and District Chair. I have<br />
been judging high school boys and girls gymnastics<br />
this past school year. Someday, I would like<br />
to get back into coaching without the responsibilities<br />
of spotting.” �<br />
Singing the 7th inning stretch<br />
at Wrigley (shown left to right:<br />
Jim Guest, Mary Burke and<br />
Eliza Grosshauser)<br />
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