Teaching Life with a Basketball is the WINS For Life way.

Listed above are the core topics presented during all WINS For Life events. These are the focus areas in each of the services we provide. The WINS For Life Four Building Blocks are the foundation of the pyramid. Everything we teach can be categorized in at least one of these building blocks. Coaching basketball provides countless opportunities to teach life and sport lessons related to each building block. Coaches are in position to help and teach so much. Providing an abundance of these lessons to student-athletes is key to their personal development. 

Values: family, self, others, academics, communication, good choices, sportsmanship, team work, hustle, effort, commitment,…

Balance: health/nutrition, responsibilities, home-school-work-play, physical-mental-moral-social-spiritual, offense/defense, perimeter/ post,.

Adversity: personal challenges, crisis, accidents, illness/injuries, failure, mistakes, turnovers, fatigue, missed shots, fouls, losing,...

Intellectual Strength: leadership, responding to adversity & frustration, competing & working through challenges, maintaining focus, What’s Next?!…