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Speaks on Being CHS Football’s First Female Director of Operations Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Staff
Earlier this year, the Carmel High School (CHS) Football program welcomed Emily Good to its program as the director of operations. Good is going into her 19th year as a teacher within the physical education department at CHS and was the head coach for the CHS Softball team from 2004–17. She was also a former coordinator for the ICGSA All-Star games held at Carmel’s Cherry Tree Softball Complex. Good stepped into her new role with the Greyhounds Football program earlier this year and is gearing up for a fantastic and hopeful season along with head coach John Hebert and the rest of his staff.
An Impressive Tenure as Head Coach
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rior to coming to Carmel, Good was an assistant coach at Indiana State and was an assistant at Terre Haute South. Before moving up to the head coach position, Good began her career at CHS as the freshman coach with the softball program. During her tenure as head coach, the Greyhounds made it to four sectional championships, won regional
titles in 2011 and 2012, a semi-state title in 2011 and the Class 4A championship in 2011, defeating Avon 1-0 in eight innings. Additionally, the Greyhounds won five Metropolitan Conference titles under Good’s leadership. “I’ve always been passionate about softball and coaching in general, so when I noticed that Carmel had a freshman [coaching] position available, I reached out to Mr. Inskeep with hopes that the posi-
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tion would lead to a teaching position as well,” Good shared. “And a year later [2004], I took over the softball program. So, it was fast and furious once the ball got rolling, so to speak.”
Good’s Coaching Philosophy Any athletic program can have the best student-athletes on its team, but unless it has equally committed and talented coaching staff, it will never achieve the
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