“A heavy heart” is a very appropriate way to describe the feelings of the students, players and parents at Bellarmine-Jefferson High School when discussing the departure of Hector Perez (“Coach's last stand,” May 18).
Not only did the school community and the baseball team benefit and get enhanced by coach Perez's hard work and dedication, but the students whose lives he touched will take his lessons of valor, grace, maturity and loyalty from their teenage years through adulthood.
The students who passed through Perez's hallways and his team rosters were not “his students” or “his players” — they were “his kids.” And they knew it.
