by Boostyouraverage » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:32 pm
It has come to my attention that Boost Your Average is some how being brought into this whole mess as some kind of business that doesn’t take its role in our community serious. Nothing could be further from the truth. Also, I’m posting this as a real person not a nameless faceless forum troll. Walk into BYA anytime to see and talk to me about what kind of place I have built for the girls and boys of our community. The charity, fundraising and other philanthropic activities we help with on almost a daily basis. We take what we do very seriously.
The Coaches that work here are all background checked prior to being allowed to work out of our coaching lanes just as the school district did prior to Mike Burgmeier being allowed to coach at Simi Valley High School. ASA also background checks the coaches that are allowed to coach in their tournaments. I’m sure there were a few more checks I’m missing here but the point is he was checked out to the best of my ability as well as a lot of other entities. Some things just can’t be foreseen.
If anyone would have asked me if the coach that my daughter has played for during the last 2 ½ years would be charged with such a terrible crime I would have laughed at them and said “Who Mike??? Are you crazy???” You would have probably heard the same thing from just about all the other Moms, Dads, Attorneys, Doctors, Police Officers etc. whose daughters have also been coached by Mike Burgmeier.
That being said, if the charges are true then our family’s whole heart goes out to the child that this has happened to in hopes she is able to move on with her life in a positive, happy and productive way. Mike will be punished in a way none of us can imagine. Child predators don’t do well in prison.
If it turns out to not be true then I’m not sure how anyone could resurrect their former life after something like this. I hope he can but it just doesn’t seem possible. He is going to suffer either way it goes….