Mark Becker

Athletic Director McDowell HS

[Mike Copper @ETNcopper]

McDowell poses as the meet's Class 3A girls team champion.

[Marty Martinosky @mmartinoskyjr]

Here’s your chance to tee it up and support a growing sports ministry we call Game Changer. We’ll see you 6/15 at Whispering Woods Golf Club in Erie, PA.

ALL FOURSOMES $400!

Reserve your tee time here:
https://t.co/opXyqfQloZ

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

To my golfing friends, here's an opportunity to play @WWGolfClub and support a great student athlete organization @gcsminc.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Arizona running back James Conner, who played college football at Pittsburgh and started his NFL career there, will announce the Cardinals’ day two picks at next week’s draft in Pittsburgh.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Hundreds of college students were baptized at the University of Pittsburgh.

"Hundreds made decisions to go all in with Jesus tonight and were baptized at the University of Pittsburgh!" said Unite US' Tonya Prewett.

"God continues to do something new on every campus, and tonight we witnessed many people getting physically healed! We baptized until after midnight, and the testimonies are pouring in!"

Several thousand students were reportedly packed in for the event.

Awesome. Praise God.

[Tom Reisenweber @ETNreisenweber]

McDowell boys basketball with a 79-62 win at Butler. AJ Tarasovitch with a breakout game without Landon Marsh suited up as he scored 23 points, while Liam Marsh had 19 points and Zane Simons added 13.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nick Saban on Leadership.

“Leadership is about helping somebody else for their benefit, not yours.” - Nick Saban

True leadership isn’t about power.

It’s about lifting others up and putting the team first.

Lead for impact.

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

@ScooterMagruder I don't mind them but strange time to introduce them for us to get used to

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

@chris_kwiatek @mcdbasketball @KevCaseOConnor Love watching your team. Disciplined, unselfish, well coached! Big things coming!

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

@WWGolfClub

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

@kamden_kramer @DaytonMXC Congrats! Well deserved!

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

@JasonRomano This is one of my favorite verses. No matter what, I know he’s in control! What can I possibly be afraid of?!

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

S/o to @Cousins_Cooper & @Kari_Jackson24, our Student-Athletes of the Week 🤝

#WeAre

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

@Swordfish4716 That’s cool! He does a great job.

[John Lydic @ENNJohnLydic]

Members of the McDowell Girl's Bowling team joined the Sunday Sportsblitz to react to their Metro League title and preview what still lies ahead. https://t.co/LiI6ekR3Rf

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

Great work with these guys. Fun to watch … they work hard, work together, share the ball, and have good attitudes. The future is bright!

[Chris Kwiatek @chris_kwiatek]

I can’t put into words how proud I am of this group of young men. I can honestly say I’ve never had a team improve from the beginning of the season to the end as this group did. Special thank you to @KevCaseOConnor @12mbecker @DrJCav for all of their support #17-3 @mcdbasketball

[Dr. Derwin L. Gray @DerwinLGray]

Let's go @HeGetsUs. Powerful commercial.

[Teddy Mitrosilis @TMitrosilis]

Two summers ago, Kara Lawson was speaking to her Duke basketball team.

She wanted them to shift their mindset.

What followed was 2+ minutes of gold on how to be successful.

Here’s Lawson on embracing hard things:

“We all wait in life for things to get easier. Think in your own life. I just gotta get through this, and then it'll be easy … It's what we do. We wait for stuff to get easier.

“It will never get easier. What happens is you handle hard better.

“Most people think life is gonna get easier. Basketball is gonna get easier. School is gonna get easier. It never gets easier. What happens is you become someone that handles hard stuff better.

“That's a mental shift that has to occur and each of your brains. If you go around waiting for stuff to get easier in life, it's never going to happen. And then what happens? Oh, it's so hard. Oh, I can't do it. When is it going to be easy for me? Oh, it's easy for other people.

“It's not. It's hard. And the second we see you handling hard better, what are we gonna do? We're gonna make it harder. Because we're preparing you for when you leave here. Not just basketball – in life.

“And if you think life when you leave college is going to all of a sudden get easy because you graduated and you got a degree, it's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder.

“Make yourself a person that handles hard well, not someone that's waiting for the easy. Because if you have a meaningful pursuit in life, it will never be easy. If you're trying to win a championship, if you're trying to have a family … Ask your parents. Do you think it was ever easy for them?

“If you want to be successful, it goes to the people that handle hard well. Those are the people that get the stuff they want … If it's hard, don't get discouraged. It's supposed to be. Don't wait for it to be [easy]. It won't.

"Make yourself someone that handles hard well, and then whatever comes, you're going to be great.”

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My takeaways:

1. This isn’t about sports. It’s about building a business, building a family, building a community, being a valuable citizen and every other meaningful thing in life.

2. “Hard” doesn’t mean “bad.” There can be joy in hard things.

3. There’s a Haitian proverb: “Behind mountains are more mountains.” There’s always another one to climb.

4. What you see on social media is a facade. People make their lives look glamorous online. Behind the screen is a human being struggling through their journey.

5. None of us are immune to difficulty (even if some try to appear that way).

6. “Easy” is convenient, “hard” is fulfilling. What satisfies you in the short-term robs you in the long run.

7. Have you ever heard someone tell a story about how easy a great achievement was?

8. “Easy choices hard life, hard choices easy life” misses the point. We shouldn’t seek an easy life to begin with.

9. Instead, build your capacity for difficult things. Then find joy in the process of handling those things.

10. No meaningful life travels an easy road.

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[McDowell Baseball @McDowellBseball]

Looking forward to playing home middle school games on the McDowell campus at the best field in Erie County! Register today: https://t.co/IthT3kJ93L

[Mark Becker @12mbecker]

@DrJCav Congrats!