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promptly broke my wrist,” recalls y mantra is be inclusive. Rachel Bain ’98, Andover’s As a teacher and standout former softball coach, I look at each cocaptain, of the day she first student individually and ask, met Peter Drench. Bain ‘how can I put them in the was a participant in PALS, best position to contribute, PA’s outreach program to be challenged, and to for Lawrence middlesucceed.’ If you respect schoolers, and Coach students and truly Drench had come to care about what they see the eighth-grader have to say, you can play. “A runner cultivate leadership.” slammed into me in —Peter Drench the bottom of the sixth and cracked my wrist, but Coach Drench had seen my potential. He has been my mentor ever since. Even when I was just 14, he respected Peter Drench, pictured here with Rachel Bain, has taught history me as a person, not just an and social science and coached softball at Andover for more athlete. He was there for me than 25 years. Last May he achieved his 300th victory at a very critical age, and that’s at Andover with a come-from-behind win why I came back to help him against Exeter. coach and raise funds to upgrade the Academy’s softball facilities. That’s just the very nature of Andover.”
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