Bakers Coaching Career a Delight
Dale Baker was planning to retire from teaching last year.
But she held off.
Baker, a 56-year-old phys-ed instructor at Innisdale Secondary School, couldn’t resist sticking around to help organize the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations senior boys ‘AAAA’ volleyball championship in Barrie. She convened the event — held at Innisdale, Barrie North Collegiate and Eastview Secondary School — last November, and coached the Georgian Bay champion Innisdale Invaders, which reached the championship side quarterfinals at OFSAA last year.
So wouldn’t Baker, who started teaching — and coaching — at the high school level in 1977, surely be content to ride off into the retirement sunset now that the prestigious provincial tournament is in the rearview mirror?
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