Athletes‼️‼️
Find YOUR home.
It’s okay if your home isn’t where others wanted you to go or where they expected you to be. What matters is finding a place where you are valued, supported, and given the opportunity to grow. Choose the place that feels right for you, your goals, and your future. The right fit is always worth it.
Congratulations to Micayla Silas (SRPMIC/Oneida/Assiniboine), a transfer, who has officially signed with Adams State University in Colorado to continue her education and basketball career.
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Congratulations to Paisley Cook (Mohawk), from the University of Albany, who was named the America East Conference midfielder of the year. She was also named First-Team All-Conference.
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Hall of Fame Coach Dawn Staley on the business of winning, loving someone enough to let them fail, and living everyday with zero margin:
💎 You don’t have to be for everybody to be right for your people. Leadership isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a courage practice! When you’re crystal clear on who you are and what you stand for, you can lead with conviction. And that becomes a magnet for people who want to be part of something real.
🏺 Tell the truth, even when it costs you comfort. We're in the business of winning. And winning built on half-truths is fragile; it cracks under pressure. Real leaders choose honesty over image, because trust, not talent—is what holds a team together when things get hard.
❤️ Care enough to step back. Loving someone isn’t rescuing always them from failure, it’s standing close enough to support, but far enough to let them struggle, adapt, and discover their own strength. Growth doesn’t come from protection; it comes from earned resilience.
📆 Respect the weight of every day. There is no neutral, only progress or erosion. When you give away a day because you're not all the way there mentally, someone else is investing it, and preparing to take what you’re not protecting.
Own your identity without apology! The moment you start shrinking to be digestible, you lose the very edge that makes you effective. You're not in the politics business, you're in the people business. The right people don’t need you to be everything, they need you to be authentically you, CONSISTENTLY and without COMPROMISE.
Congratulations to Buddy Hammer, Jr. (Cherokee), a transfer, who has committed to the University of Akron in Ohio to continue his education and basketball career.
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