High School
For Gilmer coach Alan Metzel, faith is a special inheritance
Deep in the East Texas piney woods, Gilmer Buckeyes head coach Alan Metzel preaches at the Chapel his father left him.
Alan Metzel’s version of vacation is turning his phone off.
He spent the last week in the Kerrville, Texas countryside with family, alternating from reading to pickleball while his phone sat without service. Useless. Metzel stands refreshed before the congregation now awaiting his Father’s Day sermon. The vacation is over, but the phones still don’t work. This Chapel is too deep in the East Texas piney woods to get a signal.
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