Adam Coil, 18, of Marietta, reads “Jane Eyre” on his family’s back patio this week. Coil plans to major in English at Wake Forest University.
Local Scouting, education and sports mentors can’t stop singing the praises of one local teen for going above and beyond in a service project that earned him council-level recognition at the beginning of May.
“The time and effort he put into creating that venue for connection and memories is incredible,” said Scouting mentor Tony Durm, of Adam Coil, 18 of Marietta. “He’s created a lifetime of moments for so many families.”
The project is what Marietta City Schools Board Member Mark Duckworth calls the “Taj Mahal” of batting cages.
“That’s a place where even Marietta College players like Turner Hill are showing back up near the home field to hit,” Duckworth described of the Bob Fisher player of the year.
Tucked down between the Bantam fields and Marietta High School’s baseball field is a structure which at full capacity, could see nearly a whole league baseball team working on drills under cover and lights despite recent rains.
With six t-ball stations, two directions for hitting, much of the local leagues for baseball and softball have easy access to the cage.
It was Coil’s Eagle Scout project in 2019, with the hope for spring ball last year to be finished and ready to practice.
“It looked like it would all come together in time, after all the work on design and all the fundraising and people who came out to help bring it together,” said Coil.
He described how embarking upon an Eagle Scout project includes not only all of the permitting, and design work, but requires the project management skills of an adult to see the endeavor through.
“There were so many parts, and it seemed like I’d get one thing, and then three more would come up,” he said. “It taught perseverance and patience, I think.”
Then coronavirus flipped that spring season upside down.
But this season, Coil said, the best part was not his own practice in the cage.
“I’d be on the field, we’d be playing, and to see a dad and his kid in there hitting that was the best part” he described.
For Chris Laumann, a 14U coach and Coil’s former assistant principal from Marietta High School, it’s also a tool to teach his players that you don’t have to be an adult to make change.
“That’s what I tell them any time we use it,” he said before taking his son Cooper to the cage this week to get in some work before the eighth-grade formal. “You don’t have to be an adult to have a lasting impact on your community.”
What it takes, Laumann said, is that dedication and understanding how many folks are willing to serve, if you’re willing to do the work to organize them.
And that’s the story the aspiring English major headed to Wake Forest University hopes to continue to see anytime he visits home.
Janelle Patterson may be reached at
jpatterson@mariettatimes.com.
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