JC Pawlyk

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Every training camp I had at Washington State University, Coach Leach would share the same story. The story of two kids. The rich kid and the poor kid. The rich kid has two choices. He can become spoiled, entitled, lazy, and expect everything to be handed to him because he has been given more. Or he can take every advantage of what he has been given—resources, coaching, opportunities—and use it to become even better. The poor kid has two choices too. He can say, “I never had a chance. Nobody gave me anything. The world is against me.” He can feel sorry for himself and use it as an excuse. Or he can say, “I may not have what they have, but I am going to outwork everybody.” He can become tougher, more driven, and more relentless than everybody else. It was a powerful message in a locker room full of people from different backgrounds, different families, and different life experiences. Some guys came from wealth. Some came from almost nothing. Some had every opportunity. Others had to fight for every inch. But despite all of those differences, everybody still had the same choice. You can take ownership and use what you have as fuel. Or you can become victim-minded. You can look for excuses, blame your circumstances, become entitled, and convince yourself that because of what you have—or because of what you do not have—you cannot become what you want to be. It is not about how you start. It is about what you choose to do with how you start. The rich kid can waste what he has been given or use it to build something greater. The poor kid can use his circumstances as an excuse or as fuel. In the end, greatness does not come from starting with more or less. It comes from which person inside of you that you choose to feed. If you like these Mind Strength Messages, click below to join our free newsletter and get a new Mind Strength Message every Monday to start your week on the right foot. coachlukefalk.com/email-newslett… #MindStrength

New heights. New speeds. Same dominance. Huge team wins today against McKinley, headlined by Taylor Brownsword’s 5’8” High Jump school record and a 42.67 record-breaker from the Boys 4x100 relay! The record books are looking a little different after tonight.

Big shoutout to our Middle School program! Both the girls and boys took 1st Place at the Meet of Champions! 🏆 That officially completes a clean sweep for the weekend, with both HS and MS taking home the gold for boys and girls. It’s a great weekend to be a Polar Bear! 🐾

1st place for the boys and girls tonight! A great night to be a PolarBear!

Alabama football director of performance, David Ballou What would be his biggest tip to young athletes trying to get to the next level? “A lot of people work hard… it’s the people that work hard & are able to stack nutrition & sleep & those things on top of it.” Listen up:

Strength training is linked to better grades Among 67,281 students, at 4 days/week: ↑ 42% higher odds of better literacy grades ↑ 39% for math ↑ 31% for English Benefits peaked at 4-5 days/week.

Coaching athletes how to properly squat 10 years ago was a lot easier than it is today. We live in an era with skill development being shoved into kids faces 24/7 all while the average kid cannot do a basic squat correctly. Physical literacy baselines are not being met.

In-season Strength Training is a MUST. Many of these sessions fall on gamedays which often can leave athletes wondering if they should train or rest? The verdict is in👇🏻

Track & Field should be the foundation of every coaches programming & methodology. It covers every aspect of development from beginner to advanced and it’s very straight forward. It removes all other variables that affect performance. You got better or you didn’t.

Good Luck X on the next opportunity! @JHSPolarBearsFB

Have a great spring Anthony Fuline!

@the1jml @TopSpeedLLC OVR. Easy to set up. Easy to use!

@TopSpeedLLC I second this question. OVR vs DASHR

Anyone vetted the OVR timing gates?

GOOD LUCK to @GabbyWhalen27 as she competes for the D1 indoor State Championship in Pole Vault!

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The weight room is the most influential room in a school. It’s not a place to hang out — it’s a classroom. A place where habits are built, standards are set, and character is developed.

Attention football community👇 🏈

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath just delivered the brutal truth parents and educators need to face: “Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is… and it doesn’t matter who bought it… All of these things are going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt our kids’ cognitive development.” His core warning: Gen Z is the first modern generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents — despite more years in school. Attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, even general IQ — all declining. The culprit isn’t school itself. It’s the widespread introduction of screens and digital tools for learning. Across 80 countries, once tech floods classrooms, performance drops sharply. Kids using computers ~5 hours/day for schoolwork score over 2/3 of a standard deviation lower than those who rarely touch tech. US NAEP data mirrors it: states adopt 1:1 devices → scores plateau, then fall. The biological reality: Humans evolved to learn deeply from other humans, not screens. Screens circumvent the natural mechanisms of attention, memory consolidation, and deep processing. When the tool fails to deliver, we don’t remove it — we redefine success to fit the tool (e.g., SAT reading comprehension reduced to skimming short sentences instead of deep passages). That’s not progress. That’s surrender. The cost is a generation losing cognitive sharpness at the exact moment the world needs them sharpest. Parents, teachers, policymakers: How much longer do we let screens dictate what “learning” looks like?

Lorenzo Styles Jr. (@OhioStateFB) hit 18.79 mph at the 10-yard mark of his 4.27-second 40-yard dash, the fastest 10-yard speed of any defensive player. His brother Sonny reached 18.23 mph, the 2nd-fastest mark among the DL and LB groups behind teammate Arvell Reese (18.35 mph).

Sonny Styles 43.5" vertical 🔥🔥 #1 highest since 2003 for anyone 6'4"+ #1 highest since 2003 for anyone 240+ lbs FREAK!!

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