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Ask any athlete what separates good from great, and you’ll hear it again and again — discipline.

Future Leaders! by: Dr. Armando Ponce Sports are not just entertainment. They are not just the roar of the crowd on Friday nights, the sound of college fight songs on a Saturday afternoon, or the endless highlight reels on social media. Sports are classrooms. Tough, unforgiving, beautiful classrooms. And for young men and women, they are often the first place where life’s hardest lessons are taught: how to lead, how to fail, and how to get back up again. The Test of Adversity

By Dr. Armando Ponce It’s not the championships we remember. Not the points on the board, not the highlight reels. What stays is the voice of a coach, steady in the chaos, reminding us who we can be. Every athlete—high school, college, professional—has a story about the person on the sideline who saw more in them than they saw in themselves. Coaches don’t just shape games. They shape lives. More Than a Game The NCAA once asked thousands of student-athletes about their experie