It’s a take-no-prisoners mentality for former NYPD captain and new Hofstra softball coach Susan Cassidy-Lyke.
The religious Catholic, who had a priest bless her new workplace, is a godsend to this system, which is having fun with an 18-3 convention report — 26-19 general — in her first season.
“Beginning within the early fall, we talked about accountability,” Cassidy-Lyke informed The Publish.
“If you happen to’re going to ask me, ‘What do you assume I must do to get higher?’ I at all times kick it again and ask, ‘What do you assume it is advisable to do?’ ”
The previous Brooklyn-based officer carries over a long time of athletic expertise from teaching Holy Trinity Excessive College to 4 state titles, later switching gears to educate volleyball at LIU, then returning to the diamond as Molloy College’s longtime coach and athletic director.
But it surely’s experiences off the sphere, and on the job, that helped form the 9/11 responder’s profitable teaching philosophy.
She emphasizes character growth and the larger image over wins and losses.
“I watched the second aircraft go in,” she mentioned of the fear assault on the World Commerce Heart.
“I’ve had a completely completely different outlook on issues since that. … There’s extra to every little thing. I push that off on the youngsters. You possibly can’t get loopy about one little factor, there’s so many extra necessary issues to fret about.”
Cassidy-Lyke (inset) mentioned the Satisfaction have been extremely aware of working arduous and going deeper than the sport. She’s taken them to do homeless outreach in New York Metropolis and has the workforce writing Valentine’s Day playing cards to aged nuns on Lengthy Island.
“Quite a lot of them wished to do it,” mentioned Cassidy-Lyke, including that the workforce even pitched to their coach new concepts about group service.
The mantra of going above and past has been a success with Hofstra softball, which is having fun with a banner yr in a newly furnished stadium.
“It was simpler for us to demand extra from them,” Cassidy-Lyke mentioned.
“They actually have, actually, responded completely.”
