Chasing The Ring with Coach Middlebrooks

Choice Is Power

Empowering The Student Athlete Within

Middlebrooks Academy Power Forward Idrissa Diallo

CHS Phantom Point Guard Josh Brown 

  A theme I have had recently with everyone I talk to is the reality that we all have power and that power is the ability to choose. Our bodies only do what our minds tell it to do, therefore every action is the result of choice. Even though they are young, I try to get our players to recognize that how hard they work, on and off the court, is a choice that comes from the personal power they have within. While external factors such as coaches, parents, teachers, mentors and other can influence choice, the ultimate power to actually choose lies within the individual player. No one can literally make you do anything. 

As a result of this power and the choices one makes, action are indicators of who a person is on the inside. The quality of work you do in the classroom, the effort you demonstrate on the court, the girl you decide to be attracted to, the friends that you hang around...all are the result of this power called choice. And as a coach, I make decisions about who you are as a person, not by what you say but rather by the actions you demonstrate. And I dare to say the colleges that recruit our guys make decisions based on the actions they see in our program, which has produced 192 visits from college coaches this past season.

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