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Published April 26, 2008 01:36 pm - Terrell Lester on Lance West TERRELL LESTER column
Lance West is an enthusiastic soul. He talks in a sprint. Like he’s double-parked. There is an infectious, incessant sense of excitability about him. In his speech. In his smile. In his walk. He is forever upbeat. Never downbeat. Yet if there were ever an occasion for Lance West to be less than ebullient, it might have been during the period when he had forsaken football. Lance West was a high school football coach. A good football coach. He had coached in the 1999 All-State game. He had been singled out by a statewide group for Coach of the Year honors. Yet, at the age of 33, he walked away from the sport he loved. Thought he could be happy following another path. He left athletics. He left education. He chose another profession. “And I hated it,” he said last week on his 40th birthday. Still, true to his nature, Lance West kept a stiff upper lip. On the outside, he was Mr. Businessman. On the inside, deep inside, he was Coach West. His split personality didn’t — couldn’t — endure for long. Four years ago, he returned to education. He took an administrative post at Justus-Tiawah. A year later, he settled in as director of athletics at Sequoyah High School. The sparkle had returned to Lance West’s eyes. He was back in education. He might not have returned to football, but he did return to athletics. 
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