This year’s different. Not only has the girl’s swim team had more girls than it has had in many years, it has two new coaches: Chip Crow and Beth Ramach.
However, it’s not that there are two new coaches that is unusual it’s that, six years ago, Crow was coaching Ramach and now they’re working together.
“I know that she’s going to do a great job with the girls,” Crow said. “She has a great attitude and she will help me take these girls to the next level.”
Last year, Ramach taught and coached at Hazelwood East. Once Crow discovered she had been hired at North this year, he immediately went about contacting her to ask her if she wanted to help coach this year’s girls swim team.
“I always got along with my coaches [when I was in high school],” Ramach said. “They felt like at-school parents. It’s funny to be back and be a co-worker with people who were once my teachers.”
The girls have witnessed the bond their new coaches share.
“They work well together,” freshman Abbey Grone said. “One of them can teach you one thing, while the other can teach you some- thing else. They each have their strengths.”