Honoring Coach Lont

Our family first met Tim Lont when Tyler was a freshman at Holland Christian High School. We got together between Tyler's 8th grade summer and the start of the school year to plan a strategy for helping Tyler have a successful year. Unfortunately, Tyler made other choices that year and went to Casa By The Sea in Baja California, Mexico for two years to do high school. Tim was very supportive of Tyler and our family from that point on.

A couple years later, Trevor, who had been playing rocket football since 3rd grade in Zeeland, decided to go to Holland Christian for his high school experience. Tim Lont was the head football coach and warmly welcomed Trevor to HCHS and to the varsity team. At that time, it was the first year that Holland Christian had enough players at the varsity level to have their own team. Prior to that, HC had been combining with Saugatuck. Being immediately made part of the team really gave Trevor a niche at HC. With Tim's support and encouragement, Trevor thrived there and played for the HC Maroons all four years. During good times and bad, Tim's friendship towards Trevor and our entire family never wavered. One particularly touching thing that Tim

instigated several years back was a Christmas gift from the team because Lewis had lost his job right before the holidays. During Trevor's senior year Trev hit a bump in the road by getting a DUI. Tim was right there to support Trevor and our family. The team also and the parents were great to us during this ordeal. Trev came out on the other side and graduated in 2006. Tim has stood strong for our family and for all the guys on team and their families for the entire time he has known us. Always a friend. Always someone you could call on and count on.

On October 12th, Lewis and I, Trevor and Courtney, and many of the alumni and their families came to honor Coach Lont on his last home game. Tim has decided to focus on family this coming year after many, many years of coaching. We have been very fortunate to have his attention and care for so long. I know this has come to us because of the generosity of Joyce and the Lont family who has graciously supported Tim during his long tenure as head coach and has sacrificed a lot of their time for our benefit. Many thanks to the entire Lont family-you rock our world!
God Bless you Tim as you shift your focus a bit. I'm sure that you will be showing up sometimes at practice...Football is your passion and I'm sure you will continue to pursue it at some level. I hope you will be blessed in your time with family as greatly as you were blessed by your years as a fine coach and as much as you blessed all of us!

1-2-3, H5H!
To see the entire Honoring Coach Lont web album, click on Lana's Web Albums on the sidebar of this blog or go to : http://picasaweb.google.com/baker.lana9