Let’s Start the Year with a Little Kindness

Belle Lindsley, is a senior volleyball player from Ellsworth High School. Recently she had some serious medical issues. She cannot play her senior year because of a brain bleed she encountered before the season. This week, their opponent, Republic County, gave Belle flowers to show their respect and support of all that she’s been through. The card on the flowers …

Welcome Sports Blog – 2023

This is the first blog post of the 2022 school year. Typically, this is about a current event related to sports, but today I just want to hear from you.  I also want to introduce you to this program – an app-based program we call the Student Athlete Program.  This program is designed to improve the character, sportsmanship and leadership of …

Welcome Blog – 2023

Hello and welcome. If you are reading this blog, this means that you are enrolled in a class where a teacher is using the Character Development and Leadership Curriculum.  This program is designed to help you develop who you are as a person and to improve your leadership capabilities. This program should be fun and engaging. The blog post is …

Pat Summitt – Respect

Kyra, I would take you to lunch, but I wouldn’t take you to war… Bridgette Gordon, quit being a baby!…Holdsclaw, sprint through the line! …Warlick, just get out of the drill. Put someone in who can throw a pass… I feel like I’m coaching a seventh-grade team! …You had no leadership tonight… Where’s your head? …You let every single one …

A Strong Mindset Is Never Defeated

I saw this 19-second video the other day and it inspired me.  I hope it inspires you too.  You never know what you can accomplish if you just get back up. Life will teach you this lesson over and over again. It’s not just a lesson for sports. It’s a life lesson. Thoughts?

Strangers on Subway Sing ‘Over the Rainbow’

Picture yourself on your way to work (or school). It’s cold, it’s early and you are tired. You are with a bunch of total strangers. You just want to mind your own business and get to your destination. Then, some random stranger breaks out in a joyful song and invites everyone to sing. It is a blatant attempt to get …

Saban on Honesty

Nick Saban, head football coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide, addressed his team during spring practice and delivered one of his “truth-bombs.” If you’re an average player, you want to be left alone because you want to slide by. If you’re a good player, you want to be coached. If you’re a great player, you want you coach to tell …