Kendra N. Bledsoe
Director of Education
FF52 Education Department
Football FUNdamentalz 52’s Education Department promotes student achievement and prepares athletes for global competitiveness, while fostering educational excellence and a lifelong enjoyment of sports through the core values of discipline, teamwork, respect, and integrity. The Education Department’s vision is to foster personal relationships with all of our student-athletes so by reaching out to meet with students throughout the school year regarding academics, behavior, social and emotional development, and providing mentoring for additional support. Remember, a student-athlete is a student first, and an athlete second.
Football FUNdamentalz 52 promotes student achievement and prepares athletes for global competitiveness, while fostering educational excellence and a lifelong enjoyment of sports through the core values of discipline, teamwork, respect, and integrity.
Roughly 8 million high schoolers participate in interscholastic sports. Of these student-athletes, only 6% will be admitted into NCAA universities, and even fewer will become professional athletes. That leaves 7.5 million high school athletes to grasp and hone other skills beyond the ones they learned during their time in interscholastic sports. Instead of becoming professional athletes, they can use the experiences and core values developed through athletics to better their future.
Interscholastic sports can enrich a student’s life in more ways than enhancing their physical skill; they can teach life lessons and strong core values that will enhance students’ futures and lives.
The terms “student-athlete” and “teacher-coach” are hyphenated and ordered in a specific way for a purpose. It represents the prioritization of education and its symbiotic relationship with sports.
