OV coach brings hope to hundreds
Posted on November 10, 2011 |
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PLAYERS FROM TWO Siem Reap Junior Soccer League teams compete. The brainchild of Otter Valley Union High School soccer coach Gary Hodder, the league allows hundreds of underprivileged Cambodian youths to enjoy the benefits of bonding with teammates and playing a sport for the first time.
PITTSFORD — The story of underprivileged Cambodian children playing organized soccer on a dusty field really starts with a letter English native Gary Hodder — now the Otter Valley Union High School field hockey coach and assistant director of Pittsford’s Camp Sangamon — wrote back in 1990 to an American embassy.
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