The White Family Group Text is always buzzing with activity.
Of Kevin White’s five children on the message chain, you can count on Maureen, the oldest of them, for the jokes. From everyone else, you can count on sports talk. After all, three of the children followed in their father’s footsteps as college athletic administrators—Danny, Brian and Mariah—and a fourth, Mike, is the head basketball coach at Florida.
Congrats on the win! is commonplace.
Good luck tonight! is, too.
And then there’s Maureen, the outlier in this group as the only sibling not working in college athletics (she’s a creative writing teacher in Arizona).