Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter)

Wife • Mom 👶🏼🐶🐶 • Mentor • Physical Educator • Coach • Jayhawk • Avid Chiefs & Royals fan • KC born & raised • ALWAYS Be kind to one another 💕

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

It’s official, Coach H ➡️➡️➡️ Coach Bauer 🥰👰🏼💒

[Olathe East Hawks Wrestling @CoachLarsonOE]

It’s just keeps getting better! Back to Back Triple Crown!

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

So proud of you @AudreyLennard !

[Olathe East Girls Wrestling @CoachGriff_OE]

It was a busy weekend for our girl @AudreyLennard! Unstoppable in the best way! 🥇🏆

[Olathe East Athletics @OEastAthletics]

This is what it’s all about!! Hawk Proud!! @OlatheEastHawks

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

LETS GO 💪🏼 proud of you all!

Go get some hardware hawks

Sending all the love and loud yells from the Bauer Fam 🧡💙
@CoachLarsonOE @CoachGriff_OE @OEastAthletics

[Olathe East Girls Wrestling @CoachGriff_OE]

Proud of this group and the grit it took for them to get here. Let’s leave it all on the mat. #StateBound @CoachLarsonOE 💪🧡

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[810 Varsity @810varsity]

Audrey Lennard takes the 6A title at 145 and becomes the first ever state champion in girls wrestling at Olathe East! 🥇

@AudreyLennard joins @bjbowman13 after the win ⬇️

@OEastAthletics @OlatheEastHawks @CoachLarsonOE @CoachGriff_OE @KSHSAA

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

SO proud of you @Ty_Youngbull
What • A • Game • ‼️
Don’t let the foot off the gas. So much fun to watch you dominate both sides of the ball, make history and see the hard work you’ve put in!

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

SO, so happy and proud @CoachWestern
Been cheering along for a long time waiting for this to happen. Have talked about this happening since the day 1 Head Coach days!
Enjoy all the celebrations, you all deserve it! You did it!

[_princemiller @_princemill]

The Dogs Days Are Over 💍🔰 @SMSouthTDain #statechamps

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

@ChazWrightTV @gabbyschultz4 @paxyhayes @Gorilla_SFB @CoachFullerPitt I see you @gabbyschultz4 👀👀💪🏼💪🏼

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

@OEastAthletics @OlatheEastHawks @CoachLarsonOE SO so proud of you @BrettCarroll24 . Legend.

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

Startin him young just like mom😎🫶🏼😊

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Kids can’t go to school.
Believers can’t go to church.
Families can’t go to the grocery store.
Friends can’t go to a concert.
And now fans can’t go to a SUPER BOWL PARADE without the real fear of being a part of a mass shooting in America. WHAT ARE WE DOING?

[Olathe East Athletics @OEastAthletics]

With his Win & Pin in the championship match Brett Carroll got his 150th career win and 131st career pin which broke the All Time Pin Record in the State of Kansas. Hawk Proud!! @OlatheEastHawks @CoachLarsonOE

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

@CoachWestern Best advice we ever got, take care of your custodians 🫶🏼

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

@OELadyWrestling LET’S GO 😤😤

[Ian Hartitz @Ihartitz]

Sheesh of the year

[Braiden Turner @bturner23]

Oh my god Von Miller was clearly offsides. Should’ve been a free play for Kansas City…on the same side of the field where the ref called the offsides on Toney

[Hillary Bauer (Hinderliter) @CoachHBauer]

@GEHSBlazers @CoachJesseOwen @Chiefs @GETrailblazerFB @GEHSAthletics So deserved! You know I’ve been cheering along but pumped to see you get recognition you deserve! Congrats boss!! @CoachJesseOwen