Your Players Want More Time Than They Have — Wildcat Alumni Are Ready to Give It

What you're dealing with right now

You already know the problem.

Every player development program in the country is squeezed between the same four walls. None of this is news to you — it's just rarely named out loud.

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No Time

Practice, film, lift, class, treatment, travel, media, NIL, family. Every hour is already spoken for.

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Eager, With No Outlet

Players genuinely want real-life projects and real work — they just can't find a door that fits their schedule.

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Mentorship Gap

They need people who've walked it. Not a panel once a semester — someone who actually knows their name.

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Opportunity Creation

Creating real openings takes relationships, time, and follow-through that no single staff has to spare.

Here's the part you may not know.

Wildcat alumni have been coming to us, asking for a way to connect with current players. The supply already exists. It's just never had a set of rails to run on. That's what we built — and we're bringing it to you.

🤝 The Huddle

Huddle up with the key team leads connecting the football ecosystem.

These are the people already at the table with us — across medicine, academia, athletics, county government, and community health. Your players don't join a program. They join this huddle.

⭐ Featured Advisor

Dr. Richard Carmona

17th Surgeon General of the United States · Force for Health Advisor

⚠️ QUOTE PENDING — send Dr. Carmona's approved quote and I'll set it.

⭐ State Leadership

Jessica Pacheco

Chair, Arizona Board of Regents

⚠️ QUOTE PENDING — she recently framed sport as the state's key driver of attractiveness, collaboration and impact, and voiced wholehearted support for celebrating sport's impact across the board. Send the verbatim line and I'll set it properly — I won't paraphrase a Regents Chair inside quotation marks.

Brandon Sanders

UA Football Alumni

Leading the alumni side — the A-Club and Bear Down Healthy Connections.

Tim Kish

High School Level

The Coach Kish Pilot — the same framework across Southern Arizona high schools.

Ricardo Valerdi, PhD

Faculty · FFH Advisor

Your Faculty Athletics Rep. We built his book, The Five-Tool Team, into a full course.

Edgar Soto

County & Community College

Pima County Sports Tourism & Film Authority · Pima Community College.

Consortium partnerships — Arizona-focused, statewide

ConsortiumArizona Healthcare Workforce Action Network ConsortiumSickle Cell Foundation of Arizona ConsortiumAZ Broadband Stakeholders Network ConsortiumThe Chamber of Southern Arizona PartnerAmerican Red Cross

The pro pipeline & athlete voices

FoundationKwame Lassiter Foundation FoundationLarry Fitzgerald Foundation Hall of FameErik Hill Alumni Assoc.NFLPA Alumni — Arizona

⚠️ QUOTE PENDING — send the approved Erik Hill quote plus any media mentions you want spotlighted (Lassiter / Fitzgerald), and I'll set them.

Glenn Howell — Co-Lead, #HealthyAlumniCats

Founding captain alongside Ricky Hunley, and co-lead on the Healthy Alumni Cats play — the alumni engine that feeds mentors to your roster.

The alumni side

They pick their level. You get all three.

The number one reason alumni don't mentor is that they're afraid of over-committing to something they can't sustain. So we let them choose exactly how much they've got — and every level is real value to a player.

Level 1

Big Brother Connection

One real connection. An intro, a story, a phone number, an "I've got you." The lowest lift on the board — and often the one a player remembers for twenty years.

Lift: one conversation

Level 2

Monthly Mentorship

A standing check-in through the season. A call before a big test, a nudge at the pathway pick, a look at a résumé. On the alum's terms, on the player's clock.

Lift: once a month

Level 3

Reality Health Games Coach

The deep end. An alum guides a player — or a whole group — all the way through a Reality Health Games pathway, supporting real projects and real opportunity creation.

Lift: season-long

The player side

Players pick a level too.

Not every player wants the same thing, and not every player has the same room in their schedule. So we ask them the same question we ask the alumni: how much are you after? Then we match the two.

Player Level 1

One-on-One Connect

"I want to talk to someone who actually does this." A single, focused conversation with a professional inside the industry they're curious about. Low commitment, high signal.

Ask: one conversation

Player Level 2

Semester or Year-Long Mentorship

Ongoing mentorship across a semester or the full year — one-on-one or in a small group. A steady relationship instead of a one-off.

Ask: a season or a year

Player Level 3

Credit-Earning Internship

The real thing: 180–240 hours that satisfy academic credit. Accessible and hybrid-capable so it fits their schedule — anchored by a specific, high-quality community project.

Ask: credit-bearing hours

Alumni say what they can give. Players say what they need.

We make the match. Nobody gets over-committed, nobody gets under-served — and you never have to broker a single introduction.

The second door

It's not just football alumni. It's industry.

This is the part that makes it a career engine instead of a mentoring program. Every player also gets a door into real industry — through our Chamber of Health system and our partnerships with local and statewide chambers. People who never played a down, and who are hiring.

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TEAM Up Greater Tucson Chamber of Health

The regional hub. Local employers, founders, and civic leaders — already organized and already looking to engage young talent.

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Arizona Chamber of Health

The statewide network. Connections that reach well beyond Tucson, across every sector we operate in.

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Local & Statewide Chamber Partnerships

The Chamber of Southern Arizona and our consortium partners — a standing bench of Arizona employers, not a cold list.

Two doors. One player.

A player can be mentored by a Wildcat alum and introduced to a hiring manager who's never seen a snap. That's the whole point. Football gets them in the room — industry gives them somewhere to go.

The pathways they guide through

Three lanes. Real projects in each.

A player picks a lane. An alum who actually works in it walks them through — with real-life project work, not coursework.

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Healthcare Professions

Pre-Apprentice, Phlebotomy, Prepared Patient — stackable and credential-bearing, tied to real regional employers.

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STEM, STEAM & Engineering

Marstronaut™ — engineering, robotics and STEM solving problems here on Earth, in space, and beyond to Mars.

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Business & Innovation

My Healthy IDEAS and Information Systems — players build and pitch something of their own to a real audience.

What the player walks away with

Six things. All of them real.

Earned virtually, on their own clock — so it survives camp, travel weeks, and finals.

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A Mentor

A named alumni wingman who picks up the phone.

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180–240 Hours

Credit-earning internship hours with actual deliverables — logged, verified, exportable.

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A Credential

An Ambassador badge and a Player Card they keep. Proof of work, not participation.

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A Real Network

Football and non-football alumni, plus Tucson and Arizona industry leaders.

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A Career Lane

They pick a pathway and actually walk it, with a next step at the end.

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Service Hours

Community hours, date-stamped and tracked — award- and application-ready.

What it costs you

Zero new headcount.

100% virtual, hosted by a virtual coach. It doesn't land on your calendar or your staff's — and the alumni recruiting is our job, not yours.

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We bring the mentors. You don't have to go find, vet, or chase alumni.

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An exportable report — hours, connections, placements, credentials, per player.

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It bends to your framework — credit, practicum hours, or a Player Development requirement.

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Award- and grant-ready data — the service-hour tracking is automatic.

🏆 VIP LEAGUES for CHANGE · University Division

Your university's ripple, actually measured.

University-level Reality Health Games play runs inside VIP LEAGUES for CHANGE — and it does something nobody else is doing: it measures the overall impact of a university on the community it sits in. Not just what the program did, but what it set in motion.

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Ripple Effects

We track what each partner and outreach effort sets off downstream — the second and third ring, not just the first handshake.

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Partners & Outreach

Every partner brought in and every outreach effort along the way is captured and attributed back to the program that started it.

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Service Hours Included

Your players' community hours roll straight into the university's impact score — the same hours you'd report for an award.

So the hours stop being a spreadsheet.

They become Arizona's score — a defensible, comparable measure of what this university is worth to Tucson and to the state. Your players are the ones who put it on the board.

Why you can trust it

We've built this across the whole board.

This isn't a pitch built for one meeting. It's an ecosystem that already supports football and sport development at every level — your players are simply the rung that connects the rest.

180 hours, delivered

Five D1 athletes — plus one — from Michigan's Ross School of Business completed a 180-hour virtual internship with us.

Valerdi is our Advisor

Ricardo Valerdi, PhD — your Faculty Athletics Rep — is a Force for Health Advisor. We built his book, The Five-Tool Team, into a full course.
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Already at every level

Standing at the pro, alumni, and high-school rungs.
Pro/NFLPA → · UA Alumni → · High School →

The bigger picture (if you want it)

We're triangulating an ecosystem that supports football and sport development across the entire board — pros and their foundations above, alumni beside, high schools below. Your players are the hinge: mentored from above, mentoring down. Tap one player once and the ripple runs both directions.

Underneath it is a question we're seriously trying to answer: what is the measurable impact of sport on the health and the wealth of the communities it serves? We're building a directory of NFLPA players with foundations, tagged by type and size, to turn giveback into something you can actually score.

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Your players want more.They just don't have the time.