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School Counseling – Parkview Baptist SchoolParkview Baptist School

Hello PBS family,

Our names are Meagan Cadavid and Lisa Mayet. We are the counseling team at Parkview Baptist School.

We count it a great privilege to assist you in a variety of needs and challenges that often present themselves in the school and family setting. It is our goal and desire to assist the PBS family in reaching and maintaining well-being for the purpose of having and participating in an intimate and satisfying relationship with Jesus Christ. We will coordinate care with you, PBS teachers and administration, and outside counselors if necessary, to ensure your student’s emotional, spiritual, physical, and academic well-being. Students may be referred by teachers, administration, or parents by phone, email, or the counseling request form found at the bottom of this page.

I, Meagan, earned my B.A. in Communication Disorders and Diseases with a minor in Psychology from Louisiana State University in 2013 and an M.S. in Social Work in 2016 from Louisiana State University with a specialization in Child and Youth Services. I am passionate about helping students find solutions to any barriers they may be faced with. I look forward to helping children and families achieve their goals and be the best versions of themselves. I often use play therapy, solution focused therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy in order to help those students struggling with peer conflict, academic problems, anxiety, stress management, family conflict, and behavior difficulties. I believe that meeting with the students will help them have healthy and nourishing relationships with God, themselves, their families, and other students.

I, Lisa, have been serving students and families as a counselor at PBS since 2017. I earned my B.S. in Psychology from LSU in 2013 and an M.

A. in Marriage and Family Counseling from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 2015. I am very passionate about working with the middle and high school age group and look forward to working with students and families to achieve their goals. I use solution focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, and psychoeducation to work with students struggling with behavioral, spiritual, emotional and academic difficulties. I believe in meeting students where they are and using God’s word in my interventions to lead them to healthier place emotionally, spiritually, and in their relationships with others.

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have a question about your student’s behavior, development, academic success, or other concerns; need resources; or would like to pursue school counseling. Please know that your confidentiality is our top priority. Limitations to confidentiality include: 1) suspicion that a student or parent will harm self, 2) suspicion or knowledge that student or parent intends to harm someone else, 3) suspicion or knowledge of neglect or abuse of a child or elderly person, 4) subpoena by a court of law, and 5) if the guardian requests or gives permission to counselor to disclose client information to another for the well-being or coordination of care with another party.

In Christ,

Meagan Cadavid, MSW, LMSW

School Counselor
(available Monday through Friday during school hours)
Office: (225) 291-2500, ext. 130
[email protected]

Lisa Mayet, LPC

School Counselor
(available Monday through Friday during school hours)
Office: (225) 291-2500, ext. 143
[email protected]

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The longest snap. The story of Brian Kinchen and the Patriots’ 2003 Super Bowl win – First & Goal

Nine seconds left, score 29-29, the entire stadium is heartbroken as Adam Vinatieri counts back two steps, then two steps to the left, in preparation for a 41-yard field goal from a right hash mark.

“When it comes down to plays like this, nothing compares to the pressure a player is under at that moment,” said commentator Phil Simms 90 million viewers.

Perfect swing, good ball contact, perfect shot. Vinatieri and his holder Ken Walter threw their hands up in victory, and a second later they drowned in the arms of 120-kilogram linemen. The Patriots won their second Super Bowl.

Some time later, when the Lombardi Cup had already been brought to the stadium, and the main celebration moved to the lawn of the Reliant stadium, longsnapper Brian Kinchen accidentally met Debbie Belichick on the field.

“I shouldn’t even be talking to you after everything Bill’s been through this week,” the head coach’s wife told him.

You probably know about Adam Vinatieri’s winning field goal 13 years ago in Houston. But what you don’t know is the strange story that led the team to this field goal, which included a high school teacher who had to become a longsnapper, endless hours of throwing a pillow ball in a hotel room, and an attempt to end a career a few days before the Super Bowl, and misfortune on the day of the game, in which the main role was played by a dinner roll and a steak knife.

This is an amazingly absurd story of Brian Kinchen and the main snap in his life.

***

Brian Kinchen was teaching a second class of seventh graders at Parkview Baptist School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when his phone vibrated. An unknown number with the state code of Massachusetts appeared on the screen. Curious. Kinchen went to the corner of the class to answer.

“Hi Brian! This is Scott.”

Kinchen received a call from Scott Pioli, New England Patriots vice president of personnel, who had an offer for the 13-year NFL veteran. Patriots main longsnapper Lonnie Paxton suffered a serious knee injury in the 14th week of the regular season. His stunt double, Sean McDermott, was out for a year in the very next game. The playoffs were approaching, and Pioli was frantically looking for a new longsnapper. Can’t Kinchen come for a viewing?

This came as a complete surprise to Kinchen. He was 38 years old and had already played his last game in the NFL for three years. The year before, he had auditioned for Dallas, Denver, and Pittsburgh, but all three times he had to return home without a contract. He stopped watching American football altogether, frustrated that he couldn’t end his career on his own terms.

“I felt like I was playing better than they thought I was, so it was very hard to get rejected,” says Kinchen.

Kinchen told Pioli that he would consider the offer. He turned off the phone and his heart was ready to jump out of his chest. He walked around his class and told the students about what had just happened.

“Master Kinchen, the Patriots are now 12-2. They are the best team in the world. They will win the Super Bowl!” one of the boys in the back row said loudly.

Kinchen played in only two playoff games in his career, so the prospect of making the Super Bowl was very tempting. He called his wife Lori, who supported him, and received permission to leave from the school principal. After that, Kinchen threw the plan for the third lesson into the trash and took the students out into the school yard. He took the ball and started throwing snaps to his seventh graders.

“I didn’t touch the ball for three years, but that day at school I felt pretty good,” recalls Kinchen.

In the evening of the same day, Kinchen was already in Boston. At the screenings in Dallas, Denver and Pittsburgh, none of the head coaches came to him, greeted him and thanked him for coming. Kinchen gave Pioli one condition under which he would come to New England: “Tell Belichick that he must get his mournful ass out of the office and shake my hand. I don’t care if you leave me or not, but he must do it.”

***

Despite the December weather, Kinchen arrived in Boston light. Mindful of past viewings, he decided not to even pack his suitcase. On the way to the hotel, he met with three more candidates for the position of the Patriots long snapper. One of them turned out to be 40-year-old veteran Harper LeBell.

Adam Vinatieri kicking his game-winning 41-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXXVIII. New England Patriots v. Carolina Panthers, 4th Quarter, Reliant Stadium/Houston, TX 02/01/2004. Credit: Robert Beck

“I thought, ‘My God, he’s older than me! Those two didn’t play in the NFL at all. They must be there in the Patriots in total desperation,” Brian says.

While watching, Kinchen decided that he did not have much chance, even though he had already worked with Belichick in Cleveland for five years. And he almost lost that competition when he launched one of the snaps over the head of the holder.

“I was simply killed. I have never in my life thrown a ball that was impossible to catch,” Kinchen recalls.

Deciding that it was all over, Kinchen, along with other candidates, waited for his handshake from Belichick in the team cafe. When the coach finally came to them, Kinchen joked: “Bill, you know what’s the funniest thing about this? Whoever you pick today, there will come a point where your entire season is in that guy’s hand.” Belichick calmly answered him: “You know what, you better be ready for this, because it will be your hand.”

Kinchen first called Lori, who replaced him at school, and heard the joyful cries of the children on the phone, who learned that he was on the team.

Ken Walter, Panther and Patriots holder, was also surprised that Kinchen was selected.

“He threw the ball over my head and still got the spot. I went up to him and said: “Friend, you and I have a lot of work,” Walter recalls.

Kinchen and Walter played together in Carolina for two years. Walter’s experience told him to go through a full preseason so that the snapper, holder, and kicker were ready to play together. But when Kinchen appeared in the team, the trio found a common rhythm in just a couple of training sessions.

Kinchen played the last two games of the regular season as if there had never been that three-year break. In Week 17, New England clinched the first seed in the conference with their twelfth straight win.

“After the game, everyone was celebrating, and I looked around me and thought: “Wow, I don’t know anyone here, what am I doing here?” It was a very strange feeling,” Kinchen recalls.

Putting aside the embarrassment of Kinchen joining the team at the very end of the year, things were going well at Foxborough. Kinchen even managed to keep in touch with his students. He recorded a “video mail” to them, in which he talked about life in the NFL, on his camera and sent the tapes home to Louisiana.

The Patriots took on the Tennessee in the Divisional Round. The match took place in rather cold weather with a temperature of -12 degrees and piercing wind. The ball froze hard, and during the second punt, Kinchen threw the snap into the ground. Special teams coordinator Brad Seeley literally lashed out at him.

“It made me angry. I thought something like: “I haven’t played football for three years, and just now I made my first mistake. You play with the third long snapper in a year, you should be grateful that at least one living soul was found who could do this for you, ”explains Kinchen.

After that, Pant Kinchen tried to correct his throws, but now they were moving away from him in a high arc. It didn’t look pretty, but those snaps were enough to get the Patriots through to the next round. The next day, attack coordinator Charlie Weiss came up to him and said, “Hey Kinchen, you should be aiming for the sun any other day but not this one.”

From that moment, something broke inside Kinchen. He did not succeed in games, the situation in training was even worse.

“It all knocked him down. He probably thought: “What am I doing? I have to teach children at school. Pleasant moments after returning are over, now everything I do will be viewed under a microscope, ”says Walter.

Before the AFC final against Indianapolis, Kinchen called Walter. Ken felt that something was wrong with his snapper, and he invited him to talk.

“I tried to start a conversation with him, but he just looked past me. He was lost, he just wasn’t there at that moment,” recalls Walter.

***

In the first practice before the Super Bowl at Foxborough, Seeley approached Kinchen to sort out his bad snap in the conference final. Kinchen was furious. He called his wife and said he didn’t want to be there anymore.

That day he threw his first snap over Walter’s head. The third snap is there. Struggling with himself, he threw balls into barrels in the stadium until six in the evening, trying to understand the cause of his problem. The next day, the situation did not improve.

“The ball just fell out of my hands. It pissed me off because I didn’t know what was going on. It’s like if you got on a bicycle and didn’t hit the pedals,” says Kinchen.

Being an avid golfer, today Kinchen came to the conclusion that his condition was like the worst cases of sports jitters, when a professional ball does not enter the hole from two feet.

On Sunday the team flew to Houston. Jitters flew along with Kinchen. During the first training session, Kinchen threw 24 snaps. 22 of them hit the ground.

“I was wet with sweat, I could be squeezed out. My abs hurt and just killed me, because I was constantly reaching for this ball. At one point, Bill [Belichik] ran up to him and yelled: “Kinchen, you only have one damn job!” Walter recalls.

When Vinatieri and Walter left the field that day, Kinchen trailed behind them about fifty yards. The trip to the hotel passed in oppressive silence.

“Adam and I were speechless. We didn’t expect this. After all, you never have to do work for others. Now all I was thinking about was how do I get these balls and keep them for Vinatieri?” Walter says.

Back in Foxborough, Kinchen started bringing the ball to his hotel room to practice snap. He hung pillows on the walls and threw the ball at them. In Houston, this habit has reached a new level. First, he took gloves and a helmet with him, and then a frame with a jersey. He stood in his room in full gear and threw a hundred snaps a night into the pillows. One day a friend called him and Brian said to him, “If you saw me now, you would think I’m crazy.”

Once upon a time, Kinchen threw good snaps literally on the machine. Now they have become impossible. He wanted to protect the team from disappointment and disgrace. On Thursday, he called Pioli and told him he wanted to end his contract and return to Baton Rouge. Pioli replied that he could not leave, because no one else in the team could be a longsnapper. He refused to even discuss the matter with Belichick.

The next day at training, Kinchen saw Bill Belichick giving him a thumbs up, a simple gesture that wouldn’t help if it didn’t come from Belichick. Brian realized that Pioli had told the head coach about their conversation.

“Bill had this sort of half-smile on his face. His thumbs up was a way to cheer me up,” says Kinchen.

But that was not all. Belichick had a message for their entire group. The day before the game, he came to Vinatieri and Walter’s room and said literally the following: “Guys, get your motherfucking together!”

***

Six hours before the game, Kinchen came to the team lunch. He took the spot with special teams ace Larry Izzo and linebacker Mike Wreibel. Brian put a roll on his plate. It turned out to be cold and hard, and Brian could not handle it with an ordinary butter knife. So he picked up a steak knife.

Kinchen miscalculated a little. The steak knife not only went through the roll in one go, but also cut through his index finger on the throwing hand to the very bone. Izzo and Vreybel couldn’t help laughing out loud: “Our only longsnapper! And this is his most important finger on the most important hand!”

Walter, who was sitting nearby, was not laughing.

“At that moment, I mentally said goodbye to everything. Enough, I just can’t take it!” Walter recalls.

The blood was spreading over the plate, and Kinchen kept squeezing the ill-fated roll with his hand.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes just like when I couldn’t throw a normal snap. I only thought about what Belichick would say to that. After all the shit I’ve been doing this week, how is he going to react?” Kinchen says.

Subsequently, he needed three stitches to close the wound, but then it had to be postponed, and Kinchen played with a glove with a band-aid.

During the second extra point, Kinchen’s snap landed two yards in front of Walter, but Walter managed to catch it and the shot was successful.

“I saw that Belichik was walking in my direction, so I went to the opposite end of our zone. If he wanted to yell at me, he would have to go through the whole field, ”recalls Kinchen.

Six minutes before the end of the fourth quarter, Carolina led 22-21. Kinchen entered the field twice more: on punt and on the third extra point. He never launched the ball too high, but it was difficult to call his snaps ideal either. If the Patriots could build a scoring drive and score a touchdown, they would go for a two-point conversion.

“Never in my life have I prayed for the outcome of a match. But that night, I prayed that we would score a touchdown. Only a touchdown, then two points. I just couldn’t get on the field,” says Kinchen.

And so it happened: the Patriots scored a touchdown and then scored two more points to take a 29-22 lead with less than three minutes to go. But “Carolina” was able to answer, and the score became equal. Kinchen went to the kicker practice net and took as many snaps as he could while Tom Brady dragged the team into field goal range. After the twelfth snap, he heard Walter, “Brian, we’re out!”

***

“It was the perfect trajectory, the perfect spiral. The ball flew straight into Kenny’s hand. You will never throw the ball better,” says Brian, recalling that match at his home in Baton Rouge.

Brian Kinchen and his ring, at home in Louisiana. Photo: John DePetro/The MMQB

Kinchen got into position and took the ball in his hands. As he expected, the Panthers got stuck in a timeout right before the snap. The Patriots special team got into the huddle.

Kinchen was supposed to stand in front of Walter, but he just wandered around and looked down, dreaming that it would finally end.

“He didn’t even find his place in the hadl! How do you think he should have come out and thrown the winning ball in front of the whole world?” Walter says.

Kinchen returned to his position, took the ball in his hands and thought about Trey Junkin. Junkin played 19 years in the NFL, but was only remembered for one play, the last of his career. Last year, the Giants pulled the 41-year-old veteran from a well-deserved rest four days before the wild card game against San Francisco. The Giants were down one point with seconds left. Junkin missed a snap that was supposed to be a 40-yard field goal.

“He threw the ball very hesitantly. It was the worst snap I have ever seen from someone who has been doing this for 20 years. I thought that if I failed everything, then let them see that I at least tried. It must be a shot from a gun. I shouldn’t be afraid,” Brian says.

Kinchen waited for Walter’s signal.

“It was the worst moment of my life. In that second, I burned all my nerves.