Student Success Statement

“I wasn’t trying to leave a legacy. I was trying to do what was right”

-Dean Smith

Doing and choosing the right can give you an extraordinary feeling. Dean Smith is a well known college basketball coach. Dean Smith was very successful. But what led him to his success? Choosing to do what's right. Dean Smith aimed and accomplish so much with doing what's right. Dean Smith is a great example, doing what is right will bring good into your life. Your actions have consequences good or bad. Dean Smith explains in his quote that his intention was to not be a legacy, but to do what is right. Doing good will bring good into yourself and others.

A great example to fit this quote is being a coach yourself. Being a coach means being a mentor for others to evolve in something they are practicing in. In this case, Dean Smith was the basketball mentor for the University of North Carolina.Dean Smith was someone of equality and truth. Good habits took him to where he is today. This basketball coach was a great mentor to those he trained and taught them well on whats right. Doing what is right is hard to get into the habit, but you'll get used to it. Dean Smith accomplished and was a success in what he liked to do. Do and get into what you desire is right, and you will be leading into a great path.

High School Basketball

Vanguard vs. Gainesville Basketball

Vanguard choose the right. Vanguard choose a characteristic of CTR. What Vanguard di to Gainesville High was something very heartwarming and right. What happened in this short video was a protest between two players at Vanguard Private High School. Vanguard is a well high educated private school, and Gainesville is a juvenile. The basketball team at Gainesville juvenile High had an away game too Vanguard Private High School. The good deed Vanguard did was fill up their gym with a crowd that supported and were fans for Vanguard and for Gainesville. Gainesville juvenile basketball has a basketball team with no support. At their home base, when games occurred there was an empty gym. Out of all the players in this juvenile basketball team, only once a player's parents came to support. Vanguard knew that, because it was Gainesville away game they knew they would have no support. Two players at Vanguard High voice was heard that they saw it unfair to have an away team knowing they wouldn't have support and play against them. Vanguards two basketball players wanted to play fair, no one like playing with an empty gym. As the game day arrived, Gainesville High arrived to a full gym with their own supporters and their own cheerleaders with their posters around the gym. What Vanguards did was a way of sportsmanship.