Me team will be partaking in many events one being a charitable event called Play it Smart. Play it Smart is a educational program is designed to partner academic coaches with student-athletes in order to, “take a student-athlete’s passion for sports and intense dedication to their team and transform it into a force for greater good in their lives,” according to the National Football Foundation.
The “Play It Smart” academic coach works with the student-athletes for the entire school year and takes on the role of a mentor, teacher, counselor, coach, and friend. The game-plan is to turn each football team into a learning team by improving grades, study halls, SAT prep classes, college admission processes, community service initiatives, and most importantly, life skills. As a result the “Play It Smart” program has a 98% graduation rate and sends 87% of its participants onto college.