Champions are individuals who achieve great things as committed members of a team. The character of a champion is comprised of the five C’s- Candor, Courage, Competence, Confidence and Commitment. What do these words mean to you, the aspiring young female athlete?
Candor- be open, sincere and honest with your peers, your coaches, your parents and, most importantly, yourself.
Courage- be brave enough to embrace your weaknesses to improve them, acknowledge and accept constructive criticism and use it to make yourself better, and to consistently embrace and achieve higher goals.
Competence- develop your skill, ability, fitness and aptitude.
Confidence- to be part of a successful team you must believe in yourself, your teammates and the program.
Commitment- you must pledge to dedicate yourself to the goals and objectives of the program, your peers and you.
Those athletes that can maintain the five C’s tend to excel, both in sports and in life. Winners do not necessarily always win. Winners (champions) win and lose gracefully. A winner knows when she leaves the field that she has given everything she has to champion the cause of her team. Those players that can walk off of the field after losing a grueling 1-0 (or even 10-0) match, knowing they have left everything they had to give on the field, and hold their heads up high- these are the champions in our world. These are the types of young women we build our program to try to produce.
