![]() After I pulled myself together and went back in, everyone was crowded around, standing behind me, with their hands on my shoulders. Sam stood me up and walked me outside while JT filled in the coaches. Everyone’s thinking, What the hell is going on? My friend, Sam Lewis, turned to me and said, “Jaylen, you OK?” And then … boom. Without saying a word, he came in, sat down, and put his arm around me. ![]() One of my teammates, JT Martin, saw me through the doorway. She’d ask a question, I’d take a deep breath, take if off mute, try to sound calm, put the phone on mute and cry again. I put the phone on mute so my sister couldn’t hear me cry - I don’t like to show emotion much. Doctors revived him, but Jarren’s heart was damaged beyond repair. Jarren’s heart swelled and stopped for 15 minutes. I looked around and ran into the first room I saw, a closet with desks and chairs. I walked toward the cafeteria as I called. Normally, it’s to complain about something my parents did. I noticed a lot of texts and calls from my sister. We finished a workout and I went to my room to get my phone. The dorms are right down the hall from the gym, the cafeteria is just down the hallway from the dorms. There were 24 players in camp and only 12 would make the team for the FIVB World Under-19 Championships in Bahrain.Įverything at the Olympic Training Center is under one roof. In early August, I was in Lake Placid, New York, with the U.S. Still, there didn’t seem to be a huge reason to worry. There was no way his heart could work that hard for a long period of time. Jarren needed surgery to bring down his heart rate. I was upset and wondered how she could keep this from me. This was the first alarm bell.Īt first, my mom didn’t tell me. During a physical for football, Jarren’s heartbeat was elevated. My perspective began to change not long after I came to Stanford in June to take summer classes. I’d say, “I do love him, but I don’t always want him around.” Once, my mom sat me down and said, “Jaylen, he’s your brother. If I breathed on him, he’d yell, “Mom, Jaylen hit me!” Then, I’d hear, “Jaylen, don’t touch him again or you’ll be grounded.” Just thinking about the annoying things Jarren did gets me so heated. Or, he would take my stuff without asking, or follow me around, or I’d have to take him places with my friends. I would ask a simple question and he would give me some smart aleck remark. Jarren … he was my annoying little brother. And Jarren, 14, was going to play quarterback on the junior varsity at my old school, Broadneck High. Dallas is on the volleyball team at Saint Leo University. My dad is the offensive coordinator for the football team at the Naval Academy. I have an older sister, Dallas, and a younger brother, Jarren. I grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, to my parents, Ivin and Donna Jasper. It nearly took a tragedy for that to happen. Instead, I found a family.Īctually, that's not true. The full version of the press release can be read by clicking the picture below.I thought I lost a brother. Molly Bailey, Cooper, Wallace and Beau and wish them great blessing in the next stage of their life.” He has represented himself, our football program and our community with class and relentless effort. “We appreciate Coach Bailey for our school and specifically our football program over the past five years, three as our head football coach and two seasons as our offensive coordinator. He also commended Bailey for his hard work, dedication and poise during his tenure as Jasper head football coach. Jordan said Defensive Coordinator Kyle Butler will run the day-to-day operations for the football program while the process of finding the Vikings’ next head coach will begin immediately. Go Vikes!”īailey also thanks Jordan, Jasper City Schools superintendent Ann Jackson, Jonathan Allen and Gayle Crump for the support and opportunities afforded to him, as well as the support from the community and the hard work of his players and assistant coaches. It has been a tremendous honor for me to serve Jasper as its head football coach. I have accepted a job outside of football that will afford me this opportunity. It is time to step away from coaching and focus on family. This was not an easy decision for me to make, but ultimately, it is the right one. I lost my mother, brother my middle son Wallace spent two weeks’s in Children’s Hospital and my wife and I welcomed our third child, Beau. “The past year and a half in my personal life has put a lot of things in perspective for me. In a press release obtained by WJLX on Friday, Bailey stated that recent happenings in his personal life moved him towards the decision to resign and turn his focus towards family. After three seasons at the head of the Jasper Football program, Philip Bailey has resigned from his position.
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