Brian Koonz: For John Marinelli, the light comes from the shadow - CT Post
Before the Greenwich High football team took the field for its first double-session practice Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, the Cardinals attended a workshop on domestic abuse and sexual assault a week earlier. The workshop was conducted by the Greenwich YWCA and marked the first time the YWCA has spoken to a Greenwich High sports team about domestic abuse and sexual assault. GREENWICH — For as long as he could breathe, football was always the most important thing in John Marinelli’s life. He was the son and the shadow of longtime New Canaan High coach Lou Marinelli, the man who collected championships like other coaches collect first downs. His sister, Anna, had crashed her MINI Cooper into a tree on the Merritt Parkway in Stamford. The head coach’s headset at Greenwich High was never further away than it was those first few months. “To watch my parents — I was 26, 27 years old when she got in her accident — go through something like that and to see what my dad was still capable of doing, that really instilled something in me,” said Marinelli, who will coach his first game... Everything is fine now and she’s very healthy, but to watch your parents go through something like that, I think you learn a. Source: www.ctpost.com
