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New Lady Lion takes over LCA softball
Published July 17, 2009
LOGANVILLE — The softball team at Loganville Christian Academy is not a group to rest on its laurels as champions of the Independent Christian Schools of Georgia-Alabama.
They are preparing to move into the Georgia Independent Schools Association and have hired a new coach to lead the way.
Amberly Cohen recently moved from Fort. Myers, Fla. to take over coaching duties as well as teaching fifth grade on the LCA faculty. Cohen, a product of Southwest Florida Christian Academy — where she played softball for four years — and a graduate of Southeastern University (Lakeland, Fla.), is fresh off a two-year teaching and coaching stint at her high school alma mater.
Andre King, LCA athletic director, said Cohen was hired because Mark Dossett, who led the Lions to their first girl’s championship, “has a passion for volleyball and with softball moving from a spring sport with the ICSGA to a fall sport with GISA, he could not coach both sports and so we needed to find a replacement.”
“The school conducted an extensive search for a person who could fill a role on the faculty as well as one who had great softball experience and Amberly brings us the best of both worlds,” King said.
Cohen’s coaching experience includes four years of co-coaching in a middle school program while she was in college and two years experience at SFCA.
“I’m looking forward to meeting the girls. I hear they are ‘chomping at the bit’ to get started,” said the new coach.
Cohen said the team will start voluntary practices next week with official practices set to get under way Aug. 3.
Cohen has given thought to what she wants her team to accomplish and will have an even better idea once she sees the girls on the field.
“I’ll be able to set more detailed goals then but, generally speaking, I want the girls to function with unity, enjoy using their athletic abilities and glorify Jesus in all that they do,” she said.
Cohen is a firm believer in setting individual goals that lead to individual success which will lead to larger goals set for the team and the season. Long-term, Cohen would like to see a developmental program involving a junior varsity softball team, which she says is essential to the long-range success of the entire program.
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