Education
Team SAGE helps scholar-athletes build the academic foundation, confidence, discipline, and college awareness needed to thrive in school and beyond.
Sound mind. Sound body. Strong future.
Education is not an add-on to Team SAGE athletics. It is the foundation of the program.
Scholar-athletes receive support designed to strengthen classroom performance, improve decision-making, prepare for college, and develop the personal accountability required for long-term success.
Team SAGE combines tutoring, mentoring, workshops, grade-point expectations, college exposure, health education, financial literacy, and organized sports into one connected experience.
What every scholar-athlete is expected to build
- Consistent study habits
- Academic accountability
- College and career awareness
- Leadership and citizenship
- Healthy decision-making
- Financial literacy and responsible money habits
Tools that help students move forward
Team SAGE surrounds scholar-athletes with practical academic and personal-development resources.
Professional tutoring
Structured academic support helps students strengthen core subjects, complete assignments, and remain accountable for their grades.
College preparation
Students gain exposure to admissions requirements, standardized-test preparation, scholarships, majors, and college-selection strategies.
College visits
Campus visits help scholar-athletes visualize themselves in higher education and understand the opportunities available to them.
Mentoring
Peer and professional mentors reinforce confidence, leadership, academic responsibility, career awareness, and sound judgment.
Community service
Service activities teach civic responsibility and encourage students to become positive contributors in their neighborhoods.
Health and wellness
Education in nutrition, fitness, relationships, peer pressure, and personal responsibility supports the whole scholar-athlete.
Financial literacy
A financial literacy curriculum utilizes Being Brilliant on the Basics and its accompanying Study Guide by Wornel Simpson to help participants build practical money skills, sound decision-making, accountability, and long-term thinking.
From academic support to college readiness
Assess
Identify academic strengths, challenges, and support needs.
Support
Connect students with tutoring, mentoring, and workshops.
Monitor
Track grades, attendance, effort, conduct, and progress.
Expose
Introduce colleges, careers, professionals, and new experiences.
Prepare
Build the habits and knowledge needed for graduation and college.
Achievement with accountability
Team SAGE historically required tutoring for players who were not maintaining the program’s academic standard. This approach reinforced the message that participation, discipline, and academic effort belong together.
Preparing students for university eligibility
The program helps students understand the academic pathway needed to become competitive applicants for colleges, universities, and scholarship opportunities.
Financial Literacy Initiative
Beginning in 2026, Team SAGE is expanding its scholar-athlete development model with a financial literacy curriculum utilizing Being Brilliant on the Basics and its accompanying Study Guide by Wornel Simpson. Each participant receives the book and study guide as educational resources.
Connecting money principles to on-court principles
Through court-side chats, participants connect practical financial literacy principles with lessons learned through athletics — discipline, preparation, consistency, accountability, decision-making, and long-term thinking — helping them make stronger choices about money, education, careers, and their future.
Learning that extends beyond the classroom
Team SAGE workshops have addressed practical issues affecting students, families, health, relationships, and future success.
Invest in a scholar-athlete’s future
Your support helps provide tutoring, mentoring, workshops, college exposure, academic resources, and financial literacy materials — including Being Brilliant on the Basics and its accompanying Study Guide — for participating scholar-athletes.