Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State women’s soccer coach Pat Ferguson was dealt a setback in January when he learned star player Destiny Johnson would miss the upcoming season because of ankle surgery.
And just when it seemed as if the team’s 14-month stretch without games would be coming to an end, Green Bay pulled out of the season-opener last week because of COVID-19 issues.
But the 53-year-old Ferguson has had plenty of experience in rolling with the punches — and not just the kind that come from having spent 24 years as a college head coach, including 16 with the Raiders.
Raising a house-full of kids has taught him how to flex with whatever comes his way.
He and wife Julie have five grown children. And they decided to put their parenting skills to work again about six months ago by taking in two foster kids, ages 5 and 2.
“My wife always wanted eight or nine kids. When we were down at Campbell (where he had a successful run from 2000-04), I was so busy at the early stages of my career, we decided to stop at five. But she said, ‘Make me a promise that we’ll either foster or adopt later,’” Ferguson said.
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