Clifford Kirk — CoachIt turns out retirement didn’t suit Clifford Kirk all that much.
Just four months after stepping down as Soddy-Daisy’s softball coach, Kirk has agreed to return to the field, where he will try to build the program at tiny Sale Creek.
“I thought about it and asked myself if I’m really that crazy, do I really want to start over?” Kirk said. “There wasn’t just one thing that brought me back. I’ve been doing this for close to 40 years, and it’s hard to get away from.
“I know it will be a totally different situation than what I left at Soddy-Daisy, but there are a lot of good people at Sale Creek and I’ve known and liked [principal] Tobin Davidson for a long time, so I’d like to see what we can do.”
Davidson said he approached Kirk in the summer about the possibility of coming out of retirement, after bumping into him at a local restaurant.