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  Amelia Mosley the coach's daughter, thriving in her swan song at Oswego
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  Written by Skylar Casellus. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice, brought to you by Everlet. Amelia Mosley wasn't exactly thrilled when
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  her father Gary told her he'd been offered the head coaching job
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  at Oswego in twenty twenty three. I was, like, Don't take it.
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  Don't take it, said Amelia, the entering her freshman year at Oswego
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  High School. I did not want to be labelled as the coach's
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  kid. I just wanted him to be a dad. Still Gary accepted,
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  Amelia was predictably upset. Though she had accompanied her father to them
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  volleyball gym ever since she was three years old, he'd never been
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  coached to her. More than three years later it's all worked out.
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  The Panthers, fresh off a 23-win regular season, are eyeing their fourth
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  straight regional title and another trip to sectional, hoping to help them
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  get there as Amelia Moseley. Now their decorated senior LaBurro. It's honestly
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  one of the best decisions he's ever made, Mosley said. Truly he
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  doesn't treat me like his kid in the gym. He's honestly probably
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  meaner to me than he is to anyone else. But that's tough
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  love tough love that's helped her thrive in Panthers colors. Mosley has
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  already made her mark in her final season at Ozwego, surpassing 600
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  career digs to become just the second player in program history to
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  hit the milestone. With six hundred and twenty six digs, she's chasing
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  Holly Barron's six hundred and seventy one for the all time record.
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  I knew deep down if I played with a dog mentality I
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  would get there, Mosley said of her feet. And that's just what
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  I wanted to be this whole season. Be a dog, be there
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  for my team. So I just knew I had to get every
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  single ball. It does not matter, I am the Libero, I have
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  to get every single ball. That relentlessness in the back row is
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  easily visible to her teammates too. Senior Danny Brooks recalled one Herculean
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  effort by Mosley in a match last year at Bowlingbrook, calling it
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  the best save I've ever seen in my life. She literally ran
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  into a hallway and she got the ball back, Brooke said. It
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  was great. We got a point from it. But on a team
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  loaded with talent, headlined by stars like Hannah Herrick And Sarah Gillio,
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  someone has to be the glue that holds it all together. For
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  the Panthers, that's Mosley too, She's honestly a blessing to have on
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  the team, because when you're down and you do a bad hit,
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  she's the first person I usually look at, and She
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  just always smiling and ready to pick me up, Brooke said. And
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  the support extends outside the gym, sophomore Riley Bell said. It's not
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  even just on the court. Off the court, too, Belle said. If
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  you're having a bad day.
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  She'll come up to you and ask you what's wrong, and stuff
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  like that. All that while transcending the label of Coach's Kid. She
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  never asked for this, and the way she's handled it is amazing,
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  Gary Mosley said. There can be noise sometimes being the coach's kid.
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  She has handled it with class, and she just keeps getting better
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  and better and better every single day. Sitting her on the sideline,
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  being able to have a front row seat to watch her do
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  it, and do it with the utmost chin up respect, I'm just
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  so glad she's my kid. Amelia was one of five seniors honored
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  before Oswego's penultimate home match last week against Joliet West. After Gary
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  Moseley and his wife Angela joined their daughter for the celebration, he
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  reflected on the journey as her coach. It's just a wonderful feeling
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  to be able to coach your daughter and never have a bad
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  day with it, Gary Mosley said. I don't knows another coach who’s
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  coached their kid that can walk away and say, We never had
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  a bad day together. Because I promise you, there's never been a
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  bad day with us. Maybe a quiet ride home, but never did
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  we take the volleyball home with us. Ever. I love her. After
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  graduation, Amelia will continue her volleyball career at Illinois College in Jacksonville,
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  where she's committed to play under Claire Scully. She's excited for the
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  opportunity, though she knows it won't quite be the same as the
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  coach who's been there since the very beginning. He's taught me so
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  much, Amelia said as she battled tears. Honestly, he's one of the
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  best people in the world. I don't know what I would do
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  without him.