Teacher Spotlight: Coach Osborne
Tereif Osborne Official coach portrait.
Name: Tereif Osborne
What Subject/classes/sports/clubs do you teach/coach/advise:
“I teach PE, Health and Driver’s Ed and I coach football.”
How long teaching: 12 Years
Teaching at THS: 10 Years
Favorite thing about teaching: “ The connection with the kids, being a positive role model in their lives.”
Least favorite thing about teaching: “ My least favorite thing about teaching is the pay”
Hobby outside of school: “I like playing softball, I like fishing. I like grilling.”
Special Talent(s): “ I can step. I lift a lot of weights. And just I gotta talent of being awesome.”
Most memorable moment as a teacher: “Winning teacher of distinction in 2019.”
Any Weird Superstitions: “I put the microwave on 32 seconds instead of 30 seconds.”
People be surprised to know: “They will be surprised to know that I was number one in state in power lifting my senior year. People wouldn’t know that because they’re looking at my size.”
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