“The Eyes of Texas are upon you, all the livelong day.” The first time I heard that line, it sounded like a threat, more like the stern look of a professor during a test than starry-eyed kids meeting their idols. I couldn’t have been more wrong. When I came to Texas, it was supposed to […]
Leaders Learn From the Journey
I am writing this from my apartment in New York City while texting a former teammate who just closed on her first house in Austin. All Longhorns know that all big life events require Tiff’s Treats, and my teammate is thanking me for the box of cookies I sent to celebrate her finally “becoming an […]
Rejection Highlights: CSLi Founder Daron Robert’s TEDx Talk
CSLi’s founder Daron Roberts has an impressive resume. A bachelor’s from the University of Texas. Master’s and law degree from Harvard. Seven years coaching in the NFL. Author. Professor. Founder. Director. But what the resume doesn’t tell you is how many rejections came before, after, and between all that success. Instead of trying to hide […]
November Athlete of the Month: Anderson Soccer’s Raine Cockrell
Partway through the 2018 girls soccer season, Anderson High School’s starting center back got injured, leaving a huge hole in the Trojans’ lineup. Due the key role the center back plays, head coach Aaron Strawser McGough, who played for the the University of Texas women’s soccer team from 2012 to 2015, knew she’d need a […]
My Favorite Eddieisms
Eddie Reese once told me, “Leaders take pain, not give pain.” I picked up a lot of Eddieisms in my four years as a member of the University of Texas men’s swimming and diving team, but for some reason this one stuck with me the most vividly. At the beginning of my senior year, my […]
Don’t Look Down: A Diver’s Tale of the Yips
During a typical practice, on a typical Friday morning, in the same pool where I had trained for the last six years of my life, I stood three meters above the water on the diving board like I had thousands of times before. I adjusted the fulcrum on the board, waited for the teammate ahead […]
