Dylan Dickey wrote:Toward the end of Hal's email to Kevin he mentioned Mark King. Probably way off topic, but never heard that name...
I apologize for leaving this paragraph in my post, as it might have been meant for my eyes only...I thought that if Hal was sending it to me in his email that it had also been mentioned on my previous post. I don't know why he put it in this email, but I suppose it deserves some clarification now.
Mark King was my HS coach at Verona HS and left the program after my senior year to coach at Denver. During my junior year in HS, there was some friction between Mark and the UW program - Mark believed, as many of us seem to, that UW should form a separate team to join the MCLA, leaving a twin team in the GLLL for those who wanted to save money, etc. From what I've heard, he went about forming this team without the knowledge of the University or the current UW Lax team, then put on his website that he was the head UW Lax coach. Hal was rightfully angry and Mark was soon forced to resign from his post as the President of the WI US Lax chapter. I think Mark was trying to do what he thought was best for the sport in the area, but did it the entirely wrong way and stepped on quite a few toes in doing so.
So...I feel a bit guilty that this found its way onto the forums as it probably should have remained a somewhat private matter, but I figured I might as well try to explain things now that it was already posted.