Hotel writes letter praising Withrow football team for good behavior
Updated: 2:07 PM EST Nov 8, 2021
The Withrow High School Tigers are being recognized for their performance off the field. Over the weekend, the Tigers traveled just south of Dayton for a playoff game, where they fell to Piqua 17-13. But the hotel manager at the Holiday Inn Express they stayed out is commending the young men, sending a letter to Cincinnati Public Schools praising the team for how they conducted themselves. The hotel manager made sure to comment on the fact that they regularly have teams stay with them, but the Tigers were the “best group to stay at the hotel.”The letter reads:"To Whom it May Concern, "I am the AGM at the Holiday Inn Express (Dayton SW-University Area), and I would like to say that the Withrow Football team has been the single best group to have come through our hotel. We do an inordinate amount of youth sports business because of our location, and the typical experience with youth sports is that children are left loosely supervised, if at all. Coach Kali Jones and Mrs. Fredricks have not only kept things calm and controlled, but have also taken the time and care to ensure that their players are taken care of. I have never, In five years of hospitality management, seen a group so organized and well behaved, even to the point of being made to keep up with their schoolwork while traveling for a game. Mrs. Fredericks has kept this venture so well coordinated and has not missed a step the entire time, despite the immense complexity of an operation like this. I cannot imagine the number of moving parts that she has to deal with to make these events work, and she has maneuvered them with the utmost aplomb. "The singular issue experienced was a bit of excess noise from the boys in their rooms, which Coach Jones and his Assistant Coaches dealt with immediately and with the utmost professionalism, in a fashion to which I am unaccustomed to seeing from Coaches. Normally, issues like that would repeat through the night, but the respect your players hold for Mr. Jones and his Assistants is evidently very high considering that we did not receive a single repeat complaint. My staff reported that they stayed up late just to monitor the players’ rooms and ensure that they were on their best behavior. The caring and stern attitude they take with these boys is just remarkable. If the rest of your staff are even half as good as the leaders who have represented you so well here in Dayton, then your students are most certainly being set up for success."The players even cleaned up after themselves when they left the lobby, both the night they arrived and after breakfast this morning, and studied in as near to silence as one can expect from 50 teenage boys. There was no pushing, no horseplay, not even overly loud conversation for a moment in their time in the lobby this morning, which speaks volumes of the quality of care and education your staff is provided them. The decorum displayed by your staff and students has been, to put it in a word, refreshing. This gives me hope for the next generation, and I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation for the hard work and dedication that your district has clearly put into shaping these boys into upstanding young men.”
The Withrow High School Tigers are being recognized for their performance off the field.
Over the weekend, the Tigers traveled just south of Dayton for a playoff game, where they fell to Piqua 17-13.
But the hotel manager at the Holiday Inn Express they stayed out is commending the young men, sending a letter to Cincinnati Public Schools praising the team for how they conducted themselves.
The hotel manager made sure to comment on the fact that they regularly have teams stay with them, but the Tigers were the “best group to stay at the hotel.”
The letter reads:
"To Whom it May Concern,
"I am the AGM at the Holiday Inn Express (Dayton SW-University Area), and I would like to say that the Withrow Football team has been the single best group to have come through our hotel. We do an inordinate amount of youth sports business because of our location, and the typical experience with youth sports is that children are left loosely supervised, if at all. Coach Kali Jones and Mrs. Fredricks have not only kept things calm and controlled, but have also taken the time and care to ensure that their players are taken care of. I have never, In five years of hospitality management, seen a group so organized and well behaved, even to the point of being made to keep up with their schoolwork while traveling for a game. Mrs. Fredericks has kept this venture so well coordinated and has not missed a step the entire time, despite the immense complexity of an operation like this. I cannot imagine the number of moving parts that she has to deal with to make these events work, and she has maneuvered them with the utmost aplomb.
"The singular issue experienced was a bit of excess noise from the boys in their rooms, which Coach Jones and his Assistant Coaches dealt with immediately and with the utmost professionalism, in a fashion to which I am unaccustomed to seeing from Coaches. Normally, issues like that would repeat through the night, but the respect your players hold for Mr. Jones and his Assistants is evidently very high considering that we did not receive a single repeat complaint. My staff reported that they stayed up late just to monitor the players’ rooms and ensure that they were on their best behavior. The caring and stern attitude they take with these boys is just remarkable. If the rest of your staff are even half as good as the leaders who have represented you so well here in Dayton, then your students are most certainly being set up for success.
"The players even cleaned up after themselves when they left the lobby, both the night they arrived and after breakfast this morning, and studied in as near to silence as one can expect from 50 teenage boys. There was no pushing, no horseplay, not even overly loud conversation for a moment in their time in the lobby this morning, which speaks volumes of the quality of care and education your staff is provided them. The decorum displayed by your staff and students has been, to put it in a word, refreshing. This gives me hope for the next generation, and I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation for the hard work and dedication that your district has clearly put into shaping these boys into upstanding young men.”
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