Coach Trick turns to new pursuits

Published 1:00 pm Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Mead Trick, Bainbridge High School’s water polo coach for the past five years, has resigned to pursue new ventures, perhaps in teaching.

The skilled carpenter and boat-builder is a pondering a vocation in which he could share those skills with at-risk youth.

“Boat-building is ripe with metaphor: it is a vessel, it is something you make yourself, and it has to be strong enough to carry you through rough waters,” he said.

“And I’d like to spend more time with kids, rather than just two or three hours a day.”

Trick, 30, said he will miss coaching the polo team, but it was time for him to move on.

“It was great, and I really enjoyed working with the kids,” said the 1992 BHS grad and former polo player. “They’re becoming adults and they are having to make some bigger decisions. And you see a lot of growth skill-wise and physically during that four years.”

BHS athletic director Neal White said Trick was dedicated to the students and had a gift for helping them “put their sights ahead. He did such a good job of setting the kids off in the right direction.

“Mead’s a great guy and we hate to lose him,” he said. “We’re really going to miss him.”