Wayne Preno - Combining a Busy Job With Family Life

The work that Wayne Preno does at his Early and Bright Childcare Centers is important to starting underprivileged children off on the right foot and helping to improve the community. When he is not at work, Preno has his family at home and he enjoys spending time with them.

Preno has three children; two boys and a girl. The eldest is Cole, who is fourteen, then there’s Drew, who is eight, and Lana, who is five years old. All three children are active in sport and a lot of his weekends involve coaching his children’s teams. Currently, he is coaching his middle son, Drew’s basketball team. Preno loves coaching his children’s team because it allows him to be involved and cheer for his kids at the same time. Being a former collegiate basketball player, coaching basketball is the closest that he can get to the game. When he is not at a sporting event, Preno likes to go hiking with his children. All three kids enjoy the outdoors and taking in the fresh air.

All three of his children like to visit their father at his Early and Bright Childcare Centers. They like spending time with the children and help out when they can. For Preno, he enjoys watching his children help out and it confirms his theory that people want to give back to the community. All three of his children are preschool graduates but were enrolled at another institution. Wayne Preno hopes that they will follow in his footsteps, achieve their own successes, and continue to give back to the community.
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Coach Wayne Preno on How Sports Can Contribute to The Lives of Youngsters

After having a successful collegiate basketball career, Wayne Preno has become a coach to stay in the game. Preno finds the time to get away from his day job as the founder and owner of the Early and Bright Childcare Centers in the Philadelphia region. Currently, Preno is the coach of the Bustleton Bengals basketball team as well. Before that, he had previous experience as a football, baseball, and soccer coach. However, basketball is his first love.

Preno is a firm believer of re-investing one’s time to help to improve the community. That was why he started his childcare centers. However, when talking about coaching, Preno thinks that sports offer a lot to children as well. They are a great way to stay active. More importantly, they help children learn the concept of a team and how to work together to achieve something. Athletics can offer this team-building experience where most schools fall short. Sport can also create discipline and provide a strong authority figure. Where Preno is from, he knows that there are a lot of broken families with not many father figures playing prominent roles in their children’s lives.

Preno has demonstrated that he can do well as an authority figure. He says that he wants to coach for a long time because of the joy that he receives when he watches these children succeed. For Wayne Preno, coaching children give him the opportunity to teach the children about values and responsibility while doing something fun and keeping them physically active.
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