CMU volleyball coach Mike Gawlik gathers the team together during practice on Aug. 31 at McGuirk Arena.
Mike Gawlik started his first season as the Central Michigan volleyball head coach with a boot on his left leg, using a scooter to get around.
Just minutes before hosting a volleyball camp in July, Gawlik tore his left Achilles tendon while playing a pick-up volleyball match.
“I turned to sprint in one direction and it snapped,” he said. “It sounded like a fly swatter hitting a counter.”
After the incident, Gawlik returned to the three-day camp on a pair of crutches before he had surgery the following week July 21.