As a child Dawn Sullivan watched her father coach middle school basketball and at that time there was no way for her to foretell the lessons he was instilling in her at such a young age.
“It’s not so much of what he said, there’s a few things but it was more in the way he [is] and how he treats people. I do remember one key phrase and it wasn’t from the coaching side, Sullivan said. “When you struggle and go through challenges in life, you get frustrated and he goes, ‘It’s like a piece of sand in your hand, just throw it over your shoulder.