He continued his football playing career earning a full scholarship to play quarterback at Virginia Tech. He was an All-State Player and made the Big 33 Team, he earned 11 varsity letters in high school as he also played basketball and baseball. Coach played high school football at Towanda High School in, Towanda, Pennsylvania.
Coach started playing football at the age of 8, his father was in the Air Force and he moved around during his younger years.
This will be Coach Casey’s 35th year of coaching spending 14 years at the collegiate level and 21 years at the high school level.Ĭoach Casey has five boys and two grandsons (no girls, expect Fiona). But she chose again to share publicly a very private thing.Varsity Coaches Head Varsity Coach - Steve Casey ( ) She added: “As a young cowgirl from the Arizona desert, I never could have imagined that one day I would become the first woman justice on the US Supreme Court.” O’Connor, who hasn’t spoken publicly in two years, could have just faded away without a statement, as others have done in similar situations. “While the final chapter of my life with dementia may be trying, nothing has diminished my gratitude and deep appreciation for the countless blessings in my life,” O’Connor wrote in her statement withdrawing from public life. “I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the State of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.”Īnd Tuesday’s announcement is another piece of quiet activism. “I care very much about women and their progress,” she later said. Though she never publicly identified as a feminist, when she served as an Arizona state senator from 1969 to 1974, she spent a good amount of her time undoing sexist state laws, and in 1972 she championed the passage of Equal Rights Amendment, though the Arizona legislature did not approve it. That led to more than one teary phone call from a husband grateful to know that my father wasn’t capable of doing more than heavy cuddling.īut the decision to be public with such a private episode was very much in line with O’Connor’s quiet activism all her life. I instructed the staff to tell the women residents’ husbands that treatment for prostate cancer years earlier had left my father impotent. I found this out firsthand when my father, who lived with Alzheimer’s for 15 years before his death in 2016, went through what I dubbed his randy teenage years in his senior community. While this phase is utterly normal for someone living with the disease, it is incredibly heartbreaking for a spouse. “Justice O’Connor is certainly to be commended for … raising awareness and helping to reduce stigmas,” Peter Reed, senior director of programs at the Alzheimer’s Association in Chicago, said at the time. The family decided to be public with this information, in part to help bring awareness to the disease. As he regressed, which is a common symptom of Alzheimer’s, he forgot his wife and began to have a romance with another woman in his senior community. Over the years, O’Connor was open about the hardship of seeing the one you love slip away, and slowly forget you. But people can live for years and still contribute to society, still often work in the early stages, and still have meaningful and profound experiences. All too often, people with such diagnoses are written off as gone the moment they tell family and friends. By announcing it openly, O’Connor was helping to destigmatize the disease that afflicts 5.7 million Americans. Alzheimer’s was what forced her from the court in 2006, to spend more time with her husband, John Jay O’Connor, who was diagnosed with the disease in the mid-1980s – not too long after O’Connor was appointed to the highest court in the land.įor most people, an Alzheimer’s or dementia diagnosis is something to hide, something about which to be ashamed. But if there was ever an issue that O’Connor was an activist about, it was Alzheimer’s.
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