My Tennis Coach: My Bully: Memories of a High School Tennis Player Who Was Bullied.

By Isabel Cavaliere-Enriquez

A bully can be anyone around you. In this story, the tennis coach is the bully of this high school student who is playing for her school until the coach decides that she is too dangerous for her purposes of giving her daughter the title role in the play.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524618377

Isabel Cavaliere-Enriquez

Isabel Cavaliere-Enriquez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1959, being the second of nine siblings. Since she was very young, she has wanted to be a teacher and a writer. She began writing stories for children but never published them. When she was a teenager, she began writing for local newspapers about politics. She was a mathematics teacher for more than twenty years until she migrated to the United States, where she got an associate in arts degree at Valencia Community College, and a bachelor in science degree at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She has a certificate in special education, mathematics, and elementary education. Today, she is teaching students with special needs and writing in her free time. She is married and has three children and one grandchild. Bullying is a plague that threatens to spread its tentacles all over us unless we make our voices heard. There are bullies everywhere—including teachers, school principals, friends—and this is one of these stories. Although this is fictional, something similar could happen at any school in America.

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Published by AuthorHouse 12/26/2016

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Dedication

To Orlando, because he is always with me.

My Tennis Coach: My Bully.

Memories of a high school tennis player who was bullied.

Today: dear diary, I don’t like dates, so I will tell you what happens today, yesterday, and every day. I am so happy! The new tennis season is going to start very soon. I love to play tennis! It is my life! I have played tennis since I was three years old, and I love every second I spend in the tennis courts. I’m in 11th grade, so I only have two tennis seasons left before I have to move on to college. I am so happy! Today, my dad bought me new shoes! He changed the grips in my racquets; yes! I am ready to meet my team, my friends… and the new coach.

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Today: the first season, last year was so much fun! We had the best coach we could have. She used to laugh in the tennis court, and she was always happy. She also liked to take us out to eat, and she even paid for us. She was such a good person. She watched me play, and I could see her blue eyes shining with pride even if I lost my game. I felt that she loved us all the same way. No preferences. Gossiping was not tolerated around her, because she was clear about the love that we had to spread to each other. Our opinion was important, and she appreciated what we had to say. The most important attribute that I remember is that she made us feel appreciated, respected, important, happy, & loved…. Sadly, she had to go to a new city. I miss her so much!