Your Dad's A Coach in the N.F.L.
Posted: February 10th, 2006, 6:01 pm
Your dad is the coach of the Super Bowl champions. You attend the Super Bowl one day and have a big game with your high school basketball team the next. You are interviewed by a well-known Sports Illustrated writer. You’re seen on national television after the Super Bowl.
With everything spinning around them, you might think it would be hard for Lauren Cowher and her sister, Lindsay, to keep their focus on the Fox Chapel team. Think again.
Lauren, a senior guard, and Lindsay, a freshman forward, are both starters and have helped the Foxes to a WPIAL Class AAAA playoff berth. Fox Chapel won two big games this week – after the Cowhers returned from the Super Bowl. They defeated North Allegheny Monday and Butler Thursday.
“I think they’re both very mature and used to these kind of things,” Fox Chapel coach Jeremy Bennett said of the recent circus around the Cowhers. “I wouldn’t have doubted any lack of focus.
“I thought they’d probably be even more focused after the Super Bowl, just from the fact that their Dad just won the biggest game of his life and they got to be part of it. But they want to be successful, too. They don’t want to just be Bill Cowher’s daughters. They want to be Lauren and Lindsay Cowher – successful players.”
Fox Chapel played a game Saturday, February 4th, the night before the Super Bowl. The Cowhers, their mother, Kaye, and their sister, Meagan (who plays at Princeton), all arrived in Detroit Sunday for the Super Bowl. The Cowhers hopped on a plan Monday morning and were back at school in the afternoon. They had a game with North Allegheny that night.
“My head was spinning a little bit, but we’ve been around this kind of thing our whole lives and our parents have been around it,” Lauren Cowher said. “We all kind of just dropped our things for that day [last Sunday]. We were there to support our father and now we’re back to our own business.”
Bennett said the Cowhers don’t expect any preferential treatment.
“I call them Mr. and Mrs. Cowher and they call me coach,” Bennett said. “It’s a relationship I have with every other parent. It’s a common relationship and that’s how we treat it. Their kids are great kids.”
Fox Chapel qualified for the playoffs as the third-place team in Class (AAAA) Section #3. The Foxes finished 9-5 in section play. They are 15-8 overall, with one non-section game remaining.
"THE CHOPS".
With everything spinning around them, you might think it would be hard for Lauren Cowher and her sister, Lindsay, to keep their focus on the Fox Chapel team. Think again.
Lauren, a senior guard, and Lindsay, a freshman forward, are both starters and have helped the Foxes to a WPIAL Class AAAA playoff berth. Fox Chapel won two big games this week – after the Cowhers returned from the Super Bowl. They defeated North Allegheny Monday and Butler Thursday.
“I think they’re both very mature and used to these kind of things,” Fox Chapel coach Jeremy Bennett said of the recent circus around the Cowhers. “I wouldn’t have doubted any lack of focus.
“I thought they’d probably be even more focused after the Super Bowl, just from the fact that their Dad just won the biggest game of his life and they got to be part of it. But they want to be successful, too. They don’t want to just be Bill Cowher’s daughters. They want to be Lauren and Lindsay Cowher – successful players.”
Fox Chapel played a game Saturday, February 4th, the night before the Super Bowl. The Cowhers, their mother, Kaye, and their sister, Meagan (who plays at Princeton), all arrived in Detroit Sunday for the Super Bowl. The Cowhers hopped on a plan Monday morning and were back at school in the afternoon. They had a game with North Allegheny that night.
“My head was spinning a little bit, but we’ve been around this kind of thing our whole lives and our parents have been around it,” Lauren Cowher said. “We all kind of just dropped our things for that day [last Sunday]. We were there to support our father and now we’re back to our own business.”
Bennett said the Cowhers don’t expect any preferential treatment.
“I call them Mr. and Mrs. Cowher and they call me coach,” Bennett said. “It’s a relationship I have with every other parent. It’s a common relationship and that’s how we treat it. Their kids are great kids.”
Fox Chapel qualified for the playoffs as the third-place team in Class (AAAA) Section #3. The Foxes finished 9-5 in section play. They are 15-8 overall, with one non-section game remaining.
"THE CHOPS".