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Our Staff in the Community: Sarah Bliss

We interviewed Sarah Bliss, Director of Ticket Operations for Greater Nevada Field, about her role in the Northern Nevada community as a coach for Girls on the Run...
May 5, 2020

Q: What is your role with Girls on the Run? Coach. Q: How long have you been involved with them? Three years. Q: How have you balanced working in the front office with you coaching duties? Girls on the Run has a spring session and a fall session, each 10

Q: What is your role with Girls on the Run?

Coach.

Q: How long have you been involved with them?

Three years.

Q: How have you balanced working in the front office with you coaching duties?

Girls on the Run has a spring session and a fall session, each 10 weeks long. With my schedule I can only coach for the fall session because it coincides with the end of baseball. We have two hour and a half practices a week, which by September is pretty easy to squeeze in.

Q: What is your favorite part about coaching?

The program is just as much about personal development as it is about running. My favorite part about coaching this program is seeing their confidence and emotional awareness grow throughout the season.

Q: What have you learned most about yourself or the community being a coach?

I've learned so much about emotional maturity through this program. Many times I feel the lessons we teach give the coaches as much value as it does the girls.

Q: What is your favorite memory from coaching thus far in Northern Nevada? (On the field or off of it)

Every year we end with a 5K. Two girls on this years team have been with me all three years so watching them cross the finish line, knowing this was their last season, literally brought me to tears.

Q: What does it mean to you to get involved with the Northern Nevada Community?

Girls on the Run is in so many schools in the Reno/Sparks area it give all of the girls who participate a connection they never would have had before. For the fall 5K, hundreds of girls participated. For my new girls running their first 5K, it was a shock to see so many other girls who were just like them.

Q: Any final thoughts on your experience(s)?

I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I volunteered to coach. Being a part of a child's mental, emotional, and physical development has been more fulfilling than I ever could have dreamed.