Luke Meredith Personal Resume

Personal: Married to Jessica for 5 years. Father to Carter – 5 and Cole - 3. Basketball coach and Notre Dame enthusiast.

Hobbies

  • I love to coach basketball. I am currently a varsity assistant basketball coach at Avon High School. My goal is to become a varsity head basketball coach someday in the future.
  • Notre Dame football is a passion for me; every fall Saturday is an adventure when the Irish are playing on television.
  • I try to be the best father I can possibly be whenever I get home from work or basketball practice. My kids are my passion and they will not be small forever. The greatest feeling in the world is when I open the garage door and my son yells, “Daddy is home!”

Education

  • Beech Grove High School (2001)
  • B.A. elementary education from Ball State University
  • Praxis II certification in Language Arts k-12 (2013)

Work Experience

  • Camp Director at YMCA Lilly Day Camp. Supervised over 20 staff members and 200 children from 5-12 years old.
  • 6th grade Language Arts teacher at Avon Intermediate School East. I taught and planned units for a wide variety of student needs from high ability to IEP’s.
  • Basketball Coach. I have been a basketball coach for 10 years including the following jobs: JV head coach at Ben Davis HS, Freshmen head basketball coach at Ben Davis HS, 7th grade basketball coach at Avon Middle School South, Assistant Freshman basketball coach at Avon High School, head freshman basketball coach at Avon High School, and varsity assistant basketball coach under Jason Young at Avon High School.

Philosophy of Education (Change yours to whatever you want! Ex: Philosophy of Life would be good)

I want my students to have an edge over the other job candidate or students in their college classes – wherever they are going to school; to know how to learn and to feel they can do hard work at a high quality level; and to empower my students so they think they can do whatever it is they want to do with their careers. Having a dream is all well and good but dreams themselves will get my students nowhere. Only hard work will make their dreams come true. (credit Mrs. Trinkle)

Philosophy of Life

Be the best! I have a deep belief that success equals effort. If I know if my heart that I did everything I possibly could to reach my goal, then I am successful. I will not win every game or connect with every student, however I do know that I will try everything I can to achieve greatness. I want to be the best father, teacher, coach, husband, son, friend, brother, man I can be. I will have bad days, but I do not have a bad life. I am living for more than just myself. Being a father to two children has motivated me to become the best man I can be in order to be the best example for them as they one day become men. “Invest in the root and one day over time it will produce a lot of fruit.”