PUPPY LOVE

What if people loved other people like people love puppies? What a wonderful world it would be. Puppies are like people in so many ways. Puppies and people need oxygen. Puppies and people need water. Puppies and people need good food. Puppies and people...

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NETWORKING

One of the core principles we taught 18 USA players on the Crowell Italian Basketball Tour was the principle of networking. The common, ordinary way of living is clinging to the comfortable, the normal, and the people you know. The...

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM ITALY

For 13 days 37 basketball players and adults toured fantastic Italy. These are a few of the lessons we learned and hopefully live out the rest of our lives. CONTENTMENT IS AN ATTITUDE! GOD our Abba Father gave us the power to take...

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HAPPY CROWELL BOYS

Key Statement:  Photos and pictures are worth a 1000 words. The placement of meaningful and inspiring pictures or motivational tools to give us the will to prepare to win the moment are important. In the Crowell Secret Garden, is this...

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ANTHROPOID

A rich lesson in courage and commitment. ANTHROPOID is a WWII historical movie about Czech resistant fighters. Courage and commitment make this a spellbinding movie. General Reinhard Heydrich was the main architect of the Final Solution and third in command...

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FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

The crucial question!, “How much does it cost?" My amazing son-in-law gave me a book on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. As I reviewed chapter headings the one that intrigued me the most was “Freedom is not Free.” This took...

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MEET MY HEAD COACH

Thank you, Jill Logie, daughter of Coach Ed Pepple, one of the USA's most successful high school coach and leaders of young men. Jill is the mother of Whitworth University's men's nationally acclaimed basketball program. Crowell loves these amazing...

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FIRST FISH

Key statement: There is something both spectacular and fascinating to be the very first. The first is often the most difficult. The first is a memory maker. Elegant question: What are some of the firsts in your life that are...

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