Discover and Demonstrate How Character and Leadership Matter in Sports
Patrick McCaffery is the starting forward for the Iowa Hawkeye Men’s Basketball Team. This season he is the 3rd leading scorer on the team, averaging 12.8 points per game. He also happens to be the son of Iowa’s head coach, Fran McCaffery. In the early part of January, Patrick held a press conference to talk about something that most athletes …
About a year ago, Michigan played Wisconsin in a men’s basketball game. In the handshake line after the game, the Michigan coach and the Wisconsin coach got into a heated standoff, complete with verbal jarring and physical altercations. It made big headlines. Later that week, Coach Tom Izzo, men’s head basketball coach was asked if we should discontinue the handshake …
There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy’s father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence. On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 …
After finishing a shift for Excel Mining, Michael McGuire raced to the University of Kentucky to join his wife and son at a Kentucky basketball game. Michael did not have time to change out of his uniform and he did not have time to shower. His family didn’t care. They were just happy to see him when he arrived at …
On Monday Night Football, the Cincinnati Bengals hosted the Buffalo Bills. Early in the first quarter, Tee Higgins caught a pass over the middle and was tackled by Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin. It looked like a regular play, nothing dirty, nothing violent. Damar got up and then immediately fell back to the ground. Within minutes, an ambulance was driven onto …
In 2019, Dametrius Walker was a sophomore student-athlete at Muskegon High School in Michigan. He had already received 10 scholarship offers to play college football. The future looked bright for the man nicknamed, “Meechie.” Then, a nagging knee injury brought him to the medical professionals who diagnosed him with Osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of cancer. Meechie began his fight with …
Julianne Sitch is in her rookie season as the head coach of the men’s soccer team at the University of Chicago. Today, she finished off the 22-0-1 season with a national championship, thus becoming the first female coach to win a national championship on a men’s college soccer team. When asked to describe the meaning of this, Coach Sitch said, …
Ray Ruschel is 49 years old. He is an Army veteran and he currently serves in the Army National Guard. He works 8-12 hour shifts as an industrial mechanic on the graveyard shift. He is a divorced father of two full-grown children. This would be enough to occupy the time of most humans. However, Ray always had a dream. His …
Cross country is a team sport as well as an individual sport. To qualify as a team for the high school state meet, a team’s combined score must add up to one of the three lowest point totals at the regional meet. If your team does not qualify, an individual runner can qualify for the state meet by being one …
On October 5, Draymond Green punched his teammate, Jordan Poole, during practice. On Saturday, Draymond Green addressed the media. He was apologetic, he was introspective and he was honest. “I am a very flawed human being,” Green said. “I know those flaws better than anyone … I failed as a leader. I failed as a man.” He apologized. “I apologized …
