Senior Leadership Trip - A Preview
In advance of the wave of stories that will inevitably come out about the football team's senior leadership trip, here are a few tweets and photos from the players.
I'm guessing that like year, the youth camp was done in Pasadena in conjunction with a trip to the Rose Bowl.
Got a great opportunity to work with a tremendous group of young kids w/ these seniors! I was even given the honor of debriefing the young lads and leading the victors! One of the greatest experiences of my life! #goblue instagram.com/p/aAAFK-TVEs/
— Devin Gardner™ (@dg1two) May 31, 2013
Great day at the youth camp in Pasadena.. Future star QB @rolandissjr instagram.com/p/Z_-q_lOR2C/
— Drew Dileo (@TheRealDileo) June 1, 2013
And in Coronado for a day of fun in the sun and sand with the Navy SEALs.
Leadership and Mental Toughness training done by the US Navy Seals. I couldn't of asked for a better experience! instagram.com/p/aCJpqUoRQS/
— Jeremy Jackson (@jjack17) June 1, 2013
Unbelievable leadership weekend!Learned a lot about myself and my teammates.Looking forward to bring it bring it all back to #Team134 instagram.com/p/aCEW3cPPG0/
— Erik Gunderson (@GunderMaize69) June 1, 2013
This is the culmination of a few days filled with many tests both mental and physical! But above all this is a group of men that became better leaders, teammates, and people! As a result, in these few days, we all took a gigantic step toward becoming the men we would want our daughters to date! #seniors #team134 #leaders instagram.com/p/aCFjiRzVFk/
— Devin Gardner™ (@dg1two) June 1, 2013
They'll be back in Pasadena...
On January 1st
*January 6th
Great to see these guys becoming even better leaders.
More and more impressed with him the more I see/hear. Clearly has strong leadership skills. Great head on his shoulders. Humble. An excellent communicator.
If the offensive line can hold their own, we're going to score a lot of points.
Academic senior I guess, he even graduated already.
Devin is in grad school now, according to Hoke on the SVP show.
Does anyone have any idea what he's studying? Not that I wouldn't be impressed with graduating with a General Studies major in 3 years and moving on to whatever else, but I'd be even more impressed with a Political Science major and moving on to graduate school in Pubic Policy or something of the nature. I'd probably guess Sports Management, just based on him being a football player. Nothing wrong with that. Just love to hear about players, especially big name scholarship players, bucking the convention and studying something a little less football-y.
As well as a 5th year Senior? I hope he's there next year!
I'm not too terribly concerned. Will it bother you if he goes along next year as well?
It would be difficult to come up with a better leadership and teambuilding exercise than something like this, from the look of it. Just like last year, it seems to be an extension of the notion of having your leaders - the seniors - set the example by showing them what is expected through a trip like this. Hopefully, like last year, we will get to hear some interviews and see some snippets of the exercises in time.
Thanks for sharing these, MGoShoe. It is great to see the leaders and best becoming that much better.
I really enjoy Hoke's approach to coaching. He does so many things that give these guys not only amazing learning opportunities, but things they will look back on later as once in a lifetime opportunities. There is no stone he won't turn over to turn these guys into not only quality football players, but quality people. Great stuff!
and was never recruited by any football programs (so take this for what it is worth), but seeing things like this as a recruit or as a parent of a recruit would be something I'd take as real evidence of a program actually caring about developing their players instead of "oh don't worry, we'll take good care of your son on & off the field" which almost every coach out there says. Impressive stuff, Hoke & Co.
Yes lots of teams do this now. I know the USC men's tennis team has done this in the past too.
Here's an article that was written on olympic teams training with the seals.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/story/2012-04-16/navy-seals-olympics/54506732/1
if there will be a video? I liked the blurb they did about the trip last year
We might have to wait until mgoblue.com does the countdown videos.
One of the real Michigan differences.
...of the SEAL training.
Courtney Avery, post Senior Leadership Training: twitter.com/umichfootball/…
— Michigan Football (@umichfootball) June 2, 2013