Hello, my name is Sarah Peppers,
and I pleased to be joining the Seattle SCORES team!
I am working as Coach Across America Member through the AmeriCorps
Corporation for National and Community Service.
I
would have been interested in any program combining youth, sports and service
learning, but when I saw the Seattle SCORES position listing, that the sport was soccer,
and they incorporated poetry into the program, I fell, with my ten years of
soccer and my B.A. in Literature, head over heels!
I am excited to be joining the America SCORES Seattle team because I love what the program is about. I love reading the students’ poetry. I have been blown away and touched by their creativity, depth, vision and general fun in their writing. The number of mentions, for that matter all out odes, to sportsmanship, being a good teammate and the value of play over winning or losing has also made quite an impression. The Poetry Slam I have been excited about, telling my friends how cool I think it is that SCORES (the kids and the program) put on such a cool event and how impressed I am that the students put themselves out there! I really value community and am eager to get involved in our schools and neighborhoods!
Some Q&A with our new team member!
What was your favorite sport to play growing
up?
Soccer!
Though I tried many, basketball, swim team, field hockey, horseback riding,
surprisingly never softball, I loved soccer the most and played for about ten
years!
Who is your favorite athlete?
I
don’t really have one, but I always enjoy those who stay grounded and
respectful. Ray Lewis gave a short speech after his last game with the
Baltimore Ravens, it was a class act, and I always admire those who take success
in stride. So show me an athlete who is grateful, respectful, and gives back to
the community and I’ll be a fan.
Who is your favorite singer or poet?
I
have many favorites, Leonard Cohen, Rumi, Maya Angelou, Marie Howe, Robert
Frost, Toni Morrison (her books are long beautiful poems), Wallace Stevens, e. e.
cummings, the list goes on but I go most often to Mary Oliver.
Do you have a favorite poem?
I honestly couldn’t
ever say,
I don’t have a
favorite poem,
Because there is one
for every day!
but here's one I love (I'm also a preschool teacher in the mornings and I need this one some days):
Why I Wake Early
By Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety—
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light—
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.
What is your favorite food?
I
have recently claimed that if I had to choose one meal to eat every day of my
life, for one meal (lunch or dinner), it would be Vietnamese vermicelli noodle
bowls! They are so tasty, healthy, and dynamic in flavor and texture! YUM!
Also, sushi, I love sushi.
I am really looking forward to the start of the 2013 Fall Season and making my way around to all the schools to meet all these amazing SCORES players and coaches!
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