Scott Caldwell

            Scott Caldwell is the manager of a location in a company that sells multiple snack foods.  He is also a baseball coach at Hidden Valley and he has had that position for 12 years.  He has been a fan of baseball since he was 7 years old when his father showed it to him.  He is very acknowledged in baseball and in his daily job.  In his line of duty Mr. Caldwell knows what to do to succeed in either baseball or in his cookie company.

            Mr. Caldwell is very driven and competitive, and he teaches friends and family to be so.  Once, his daughter got a concussion, but still managed to finish her cheerleading performance.  “If you start something, you finish it,” said Mr. Caldwell, 47.

            His job is a manager of people, he has around fifteen sales representatives that report to him in the company and he reports back to his boss. In part of his job he has something that he calls the Three C’s of Leadership. First he casts a vision for his employees, which means that people need to set goals and shoot for them. The second is to clear the road, which means that as a manager you need to help clear all the obstacles in order for them to reach their goal. The last C is come from behind, which what he meant by saying that is ignore all insults and everything from the people up top and come up, and start to sell more than them.

            At Hidden Valley High School Mr. Caldwell has been coaching for about twelve years. One thing that he said, “You’re a coach in everything you do,” which means everything that you do help show others the way. His favorite memory as a coach is when he first moved here, because everything was new to him and it was a very different and interesting experience. The hardest thing about being a coach in his opinion was finding a way to manage time between his day time job and being a coach. As a young boy his father introduced him to baseball, and in school his favorite memory as a player was when he was the winning pitcher in the league championship. He also said, “I decided to keep the competitive spirit, it’s always good to keep the competitive spirit.”