Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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" I think it is very special to be able to coach your children and that is a memory that I will have forever and it's incredibly special to me,'' Mark Mayock said.
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Mayocks on the move For Angus and Katie Mayock, sports are a family affair. The two star ‘Stoga athletes are the children of seasoned athletes, Alix and Mark Mayock. Both played basketball in high school and college—Alix Mayock playing for St. Joseph’s University and Mark Mayock playing for Boston College— so it seemed that their kids would be destined to follow in their footsteps. Angus Mayock is a star basketball and baseball player, headed to the University of Connecticut for baseball, and Katie Mayock is a star basketball and softball player. Growing up with experienced athletes as parents
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definitely gave them an edge. “We definitely had an advantage from a young age, and good coaching when we were younger,” Angus Mayock said. Alix Mayock grew up in Slea, Lincolnshire, England, and played basketball, net ball, field hockey and competed in high jump and long jump in track and field. Although she was a multifaceted athlete, basketball was her passion, and she competed on the English National Team for under 17, under 19 and under 21. A basketball scholarship to St. Joseph’s University brought her to the states. “I got to travel the world, meet great people and eventually, it brought me over here,” Alix Mayock said. Mark Mayock grew up locally, graduating from the
Haverford Boys School in 1980. He was a varsity athlete in football, basketball, baseball and track. While he was attending college, his career was cut short by an injured knee. But where his career ended, his children’s began. “It’s fascinating to watch them. We also coached them; like she coached both of them in basketball, I coached them in softball and baseball. It can be a pretty interesting relationship between you and your kid, separating the father-son thing from the player-coach. Ultimately I think everybody gets it figured out. You don’t talk to the kid on the drive home or the next day. You wait until the time seems right,” Mark Mayock said. Mark Mayock’s father was a lifelong coach who taught
and coached at Haverford, guided his brothers through the school and retired when he was in high school. Having that kind of relationship is something he can appreciate more now from the other side. “I think it is very special to be able to coach your children and that is a memory that I will have forever and it’s incredibly special to me,” Mark Mayock said. “But all of our kids, when I’ve coached them, have been phenomenal.” For the two kids, it’s nice to have parents who can relate to what they go through as student-athletes. “We usually bring it up, but if we are talking about a game they can say that they experienced a similar thing from back in the day. It comes up a lot,” Katie Mayock said.
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