Bear Down Healthy Connections — UA Football Alumni × FFH

Based on Glenn's Reflections from the Past Few Calls

You already know
what you want.
We built the rails for it.

Across the past few alumni calls, the themes Glenn's brought back are clear, they're Wildcat-shaped, and they line up exactly with what The Force for Health Network already runs every day. This isn't a new program for you to staff — it's a turnkey layer on top of the relationships you're already building, in a system that's ready to present now and execute.

Football is often the strongest economic and messaging engine a community has — few things pull so many diverse people together behind a single cause. But the ripple effects can be even greater for everyone when we turn that energy into better connections and healthy mentorship.

Coach Lucy HowellCEO, The Force for Health Network

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Alumni-to-Player Mentorship

A structured way for alumni to mentor current players — the kind of program Brandon flagged after seeing what Duke is doing. Light-touch, meaningful, and measurable.

"I saw a cool mentoring program at Duke I want to explore." — Brandon Sanders

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Support the Whole Family

Care for the families of current players AND the growing, expanding alumni family — health, connection, and belonging that outlasts a playing career.

A-Club & Letterwinner family-first culture

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Character & Potential First

A platform built around who these young people become — not just their stats. Exactly the culture Coach Brennan champions for his players, staff, and extended family.

Coach Brent Brennan's character focus

The problem we're actually solving

The Alumni Director needs an easy, low-oversight way to connect alumni with current mentorship opportunities — structured and cool, not another thing to manage. And alumni keep asking for a way to know each other — to feel that exclusive brotherhood between the monthly calls. So we hand you three things that run themselves.

What We Hand You

Three tools. Zero new headcount.

Glenn and Ricky step up as the founding champions to set the stage and bring in the first cohort. After that, the system does the connecting — the Director just watches the good roll in.

Low oversight

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The Matching Engine

Alumni opt in, pick a side and a division, and we auto-match them to a player or team. One nudge a month. The Director gets a simple dashboard — connections happening without you brokering each one.

Self-serve alumni sign-up
Auto-match by era, position, region
Monthly prompts written for them
Director sees it all, manages none of it

The brotherhood

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The Brotherhood Directory

The thing alumni keep asking for: an opt-in directory so letterwinners can actually find each other between calls — by era, position, city, and profession. The exclusive Wildcat network, made searchable.

Opt-in, alumni-controlled profiles
Filter by era, position, city, career
Built for connection, not exposure
Turns the monthly call into a year-round network

The cool factor

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Player Cards

Collectible cards that celebrate the story, not the stats — fed straight from "In the Huddle with Howell." Every alum and player gets one. Earn them, share them, and watch the legacy grow.

One card per alum & current player
Powered by Glenn's interviews
Each card shared = a Share It Coin
The highlight reel of giving back

🐻⬇️ Wildcat ProfileOld School

YOUR STORY

Then & Now · a Wildcat snapshot

'83–'85

Played

Position

Now

Tucson · Coaching

"The takeaway that changed my life…"

Sample Profile Card

Every Wildcat gets a Profile. Every story gets celebrated.

Not a stat sheet — a snapshot of the person. Then: years played and position. Now: what you're doing, where you live, the family (and the kids who play). Plus a short set of reflections — the same questions Glenn asks on the show. Compiled into a Profile Card for the Legacy Book, the mentor Directory, the TEAM UP! Greater Tucson community eMag, social posts, and keepsakes.

The Mentor Challenge · The UA Alumni Legacy Book

Five questions. One living Legacy Book.

This is the flagship alumni step. Each Wildcat answers a short Then & Now profile plus five reflections — many of the same questions Glenn asks on the show. The Old School and New Cats each have a Team Captain whose job is getting as many of their alumni as possible to complete it.

Take us back to your very first time walking onto the U of A campus — where were you moving from, how were you recruited, and what do you remember most about that first impression of Arizona Stadium, the campus, and the reality you were about to embark on?
What was your favorite memory from your time as a Wildcat?
Is there a specific moment from the sideline or the field — a play, a moment, anything that first pops into mind that makes you smile?
How would you coach your younger self? What main life lessons would you pass on?
Who made the biggest impact on your life during your time at the University of Arizona — and why?

Two ways to capture it

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Type & Upload

Write your answers and upload a photo at your own pace.

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SHARE It Studio

Tap a link, get prompted through the questions on camera. We talk-to-text it into your Profile Card.

What it builds

A UA Alumni Legacy Book — dynamic e-format now, growing every year as more entries come in.
A mentor-matching Directory — surfaces each alum's industry & experience so we can match players to the right wing.
A breadth of reflection & advice for current players — wisdom from the widest net of Wildcats.

Each Profile Card is reusable: it feeds the Directory, the TEAM UP! Greater Tucson community eMag, social posts, and keepsakes — and could even be printed.

🎙️ Day-one seed content: Glenn's existing podcast "Behind The Locker Room Door" (12 episodes on the FFH Network) plus current official Wildcats Radio 1290 segments (direct MP3s) populate the Legacy & Healthy Connections Directory and Mentor-Matching platform with real Wildcat voices from the start.

The Signature Rivalry

Old School vs The New Cats.

One friendly, season-long rivalry for good that auto-sorts every Wildcat ever — no debate, just your era. Each side runs under a Team Captain who rallies their alumni to show up, mentor, and score Learn It · Live It · Share It. Whichever era logs the most across the season takes the trophy at the May banquet.

Team 1 · Captain TBD

🏛️ Old School

Played 1999 & earlier · the 20th-century Cats

The founders of the Bear Down standard. Decades of letterwinners, war stories, and life-after-football wisdom — the deepest bench of mentors a current player could ask for.

Team 2 · Captain TBD

⚡ The New Cats

Played Jan 1, 2000 & later · the 21st-century Cats

The modern era — closer in age to today's roster, fluent in today's game and today's careers. The bridge between the locker room they just left and the one that's there now.

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"In the Huddle with Howell" becomes the heartbeat

Glenn Howell — Wildcat o-lineman ('83–'85) and a voice on 1290 Wildcats Radio — already interviews alumni about the experiences and life-changing takeaways of being a Wildcat. Every one becomes a Share It moment: a story published to the Wildcat family, a mentor introduced. We don't add work to the broadcast — we give it a scoreboard.

Optional Personality Layer

The Lead Format

Old School vs New Cats

The era rivalry auto-sorts every Wildcat — play in 1999 or earlier and you're Old School; Jan 1, 2000 or later and you're a New Cat. Clean, inclusive, and it scales to every school we take this to.

A Fun Add-On

Howell vs Hunley

Want extra spice? Layer in a captains' side-bet — Glenn Howell and Ricky Hunley (AZ Sports HOF, Super Bowl Bronco, Exec. Director of Player Relations) as friendly faces of the rivalry. Great for rallies and storytelling.

🐻⬇️ Wildcat Football, by the numbers — the bench you're recruiting from

127

Seasons since 1899

~3,000+

Est. all-time roster alumni

290

All-time NFL Draft picks

1,100+

All-time games played

Even capturing a fraction of this roster fills both teams many times over — and every name is a story, a mentor, or a spotlight waiting to be told.

How You Score

Three ways to Bear Down for good.

Every meaningful action pays out a real coin and points toward your captain's side. Alumni, players, families, and fans all play the same three-part game — and every region and team competes on the watershed of good they create.

Learn It

Take your PHIT Score. Complete a health-literacy challenge. Learn the story behind a teammate's cause — sickle cell, cardiac health, breast cancer awareness.

e.g. An alum takes his own screening the same quarter the players do theirs.

Live It

Show up. A practice visit, a locker-room talk, a family walk, a workout logged. The healthy habits that turn a season into a lifestyle.

e.g. A mentor's monthly check-in with his matched player and family.

The Intergenerational Ladder

Every rung reaches down to lift the next.

This is the watershed of good. Pro alumni mentor college players. College alumni mentor high schoolers. High schoolers mentor youth. And the whole community — cheer, band, and girls flag included — moves toward healthy citizenship together. Arizona is the proof-of-concept for the whole pyramid.

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NFLPA & Pro Alumni

Arizona's pro players and their foundations — Kwame Lassiter Foundation, Larry Fitzgerald Foundation, Michael Bankston (AZ NFLPA Director) — anchor causes and mentor down.

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UA Football Alumni · The A-Club

Letterwinners from every era — split into Old School & New Cats teams — mentor current players and carry the Wildcat standard.

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Current Wildcat Players

Mentored by alumni, supported by TB's Player Development engine, and paying it forward to high school and youth athletes.

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High School · NFF Southern Arizona

Tim Kish & NFF SoAZ connect ~70+ programs across eight counties — flag and tackle — into the same Learn/Live/Share season.

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Youth · Tucson Youth Sport Football Federation

The two Tucson youth football orgs complete the ecosystem — the next generation of Wildcats starts here.

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The Whole Community

Cheer, band, and girls flag across the board — plus the State & Regional Chambers of Commerce — so the entire football community competes for good.

The 4-Quarter Gameplan · June → May

This is the actual plan —
quarter by quarter.

We run it like a season. Four quarters from summer to the May banquet, with the live weeks of Challenge matched to the NCAA schedule — two seasons across the year, one championship at the end.

Summer · Jun → Aug

Recruit & Roster

Build both teams. Sign alumni, each choosing one of four roles. The headcount is the first scoreboard.

Captains & format locked
10–50 alumni per team
Brotherhood Directory opens

Fall · Sep → Nov

Activate & Mentor

Game weeks go live. Alumni matched to players, "In the Huddle" spotlights roll, PHIT screenings begin.

Monthly check-ins start
Weekly game-day challenges
First Player Cards drop

Winter · Dec → Feb

Connect & Grow

Off-season keeps the bond alive. Internships placed for spring credit; pro & NFLPA alumni recruited for bonus points.

TB internships placed
Recruit pro/NFLPA alums
Family Live It activations

Spring · Mar → May

Showcase & Crown

Spring spotlights, final tallies, and the May Championship banquet — the winning team takes the trophy.

Final Learn/Live/Share tally
May banquet & awards
Region of the Year crowned

10–50alumni per team · Q1

Quarter 1's competitive stat

The first way teams score is simply showing up. Each side recruits 10 to 50 alumni to join the Chamber of Health Football Alumni Challenge — and every alum signs on in one of four roles. That roster number is the opening scoreboard, and it's the easiest, most visible win to rally the brotherhood around.

Four Ways to Suit Up & Pick Your Level

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Ambassador

Spread the word, rally the era, bring more Wildcats onto the roster.

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Mentor

Match with a current player or team — one light-touch check-in a month.

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Internship Site

Open a door at your company — host a player for real-world, for-credit experience.

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Project Coach

Get matched with a group and guide a team through a Reality Health Games impact project or pathway.

For the Current Roster · TB's Player Development Engine

This isn't just legacy. It's a paycheck-skill and a credit.

Tobruk Blaine built a first-of-its-kind player development program — at San Jose State it impacted 110+ Division I athletes a year and helped land a $2M grant. Now she's running it for the Wildcats. We plug straight into TB's engine so current players get something real out of every connection.

Internship for academic credit: The Force for Health is a live internship site — players earn real credit doing public-health and community work.
Career exposure: Hospitals, Chambers of Commerce, health departments, and FFH partners — TB's practicum model, built around real-world experience.
Workforce readiness: Resume, interview, LinkedIn, financial literacy — the "beyond football" toolkit.
360 Health Career pathways: Over 200 health-sector roles mapped for the life that comes after the highlight reel.
Mentor & be mentored: Players receive from alumni and pay it forward to high school and youth athletes — earning coins both ways.

🎓 The Tobruk Play

Because FFH is already an approved internship-for-credit site, current players don't just "give back" — they bank credit, build a resume, and earn a health-career credential while they do it. Player Development and the Alumni Challenge become one connected pipeline.

A Proven Model — We Add the Health

Duke showed it works.
We wrap it in wellness.

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Borrowed from the best, built for health

Duke's Future Initiative — led by Director Dorian Jackson — connects current players with former players and the extended alumni network to prepare them for life after the game, and has already placed 50+ student-athletes in internships. It works because alumni become the connecting piece in a young athlete's transition. We run the same proven play — and add the part Duke doesn't: every connection also builds health literacy, healthy habits, and a workforce credential, so players leave stronger in body and career, not just resume.

Where the Journey Leads · Specialty Workforce Pathways

Every Wildcat picks a lane to their next step.

Most players won't be headed for a health career — and that's the point. Mentorship is the on-ramp; each athlete chooses a Specialty Workforce Pathway that fits them. Healthcare is one lane of several, and all are FFH programs we already run.

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Healthcare

Paycheck-skills and stackable credentials in the fastest-growing job sector — for the players who feel the pull.

Through

Pre-ApprenticeshipPhlebotomyPrepared Patient Series

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Engineering & Space

Engineering, manufacturing, and space — the build-a-future pathway, from Ground School to Mars.

Through

Marstronaut™ In Training

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Business & Entrepreneurship

Turn a social-determinant-of-health issue you care about into a venture — built around what matters to you.

Through

My Healthy IDEAS Challenge

The Challenge Curriculum · 100% Virtual

10 modules. Healthy Me → Healthy We → Healthy Us.

Run it in a single season or stretch it across the whole year — completely virtual, start to finish. It opens with a solid health-literacy foundation and finishes with Ambassador training and a workforce-pathway pick. Every module pays out Learn / Live / Share coins and counts toward team totals.

Healthy Me

You First · Modules 1–4

Health Literacy Foundation

Take your PHIT Score; learn your numbers and what they mean.

Healthy Habits

Sleep, movement, fuel, and mind — the daily Live It basics.

Identity Beyond the Game

Who you are off the field — your story and your strengths.

Know Your Why

Set a vision and goals for whatever comes next.

Healthy We

Your Circle · Modules 5–7

Meet Your Wingman

Connect with your alumni mentor — the first wing-tap.

Team Health & Brotherhood

Show up for teammates and family; healthy together.

Social Determinants of Health

The issues that hit your community — the seed of My Healthy IDEAS.

Healthy Us

Your Community · Modules 8–10

Pick Your Pathway

Choose your lane: Healthcare, STEM-Space, or Business.

Ambassador Training

Become a public-health messenger — athletes have the platform.

Capstone Activation

Lead a give-back; earn your credential and your Player Card.

🖥️ 100% virtual — do it anywhere

📆 Season or full year — your pace

🪙 Every module scores coins for your team

🎓 Ends in Ambassador + pathway

▶ Open the 10-Module Journey

Why This Is a Force Multiplier

One play. Twelve wins.

For Brandon and the staff, the value isn't one program — it's a dozen at once. Below: the full scoreboard, each win tagged by who it serves — the Player, the Mentor, the UA FB Org, the High Schools, or the Youth.

Track A · The Athlete

Workforce & Connections First

Health literacy for self, family & community is the foundation — but the win is the next step: a network, a pathway, and the skills to thrive in the world after football.

Track B · The Alumni Mentor

Earn Alongside — and Check Your Own Health

Mentors earn on a concurrent participation path, with a health-awareness lane of their own — a quick, private screen to be aware and care for themselves and their families (the FFH HealthBridge Men & Alpha line).

See the HealthBridge Men screen →

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Grow Your Team — One to Many

Athletes and mentors score extra points by recruiting friends & family onto their side of the Healthy Wildcat Connections team — the ripple we're built to prove.

Every friend or family member recruited = team points
Recruit an Ambassador or Group Leader → share in the revenue
One athlete or alum can activate dozens — the one-to-many effect

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Players Become Ambassadors

Every player who suits up becomes an Ambassador — with real access across the Network.

Full access to the TEAM Up Greater Tucson Chamber of Health
Welcome at Ambassador Zooms across all 16 FFH channels
More ways to engage, develop, and score for their team

🎯Player

Life After Football

Workforce, network & opportunity for the athlete.

🩺Alumni

Check Your Own Health

A private screen for alumni — HealthBridge Men & Alpha.

📣All

One-to-Many Recruiting

Bring friends & family for points; recruit a leader, share revenue.

🏛️Player

Instant Ambassadors

Chamber of Health access + Ambassador Zooms, all 16 channels.

📖UA FB Org

Grows the Alumni Base

Pulls every past player into the Legacy Book. Gold for Brandon & Brennan.

🔁Alumni

A Reason to Lean In

Purpose for former Cats between the monthly Zooms.

🏆All

Multi-Level Competition

Old School vs New Cats & vs peer programs; coins feed the Chamber & State teams.

🏟️High Schools

AIA High School Link

Players match with a high school via the NFF.

⚡Youth

High School → Youth

Each high school connects with its local youth org.

🌟All

Recruit the Pros

Bring in giving-back Pros; the Director earns bonus coins.

🧪UA FB Org

100-Player Pilot

50 Alumni + 50 Players, season one.

🤝All

Sponsor Matching

We match the team to a sponsor for prizes & rewards.

For Alumni Mentors · Pick Your Level

Tap a wing. As much or as little as you've got.

"Wing-tapping" is the old vet tapping a young player on the shoulder — a nod that says I've got you. You choose how deep you go, and it all counts.

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Level 1
Meet & GreetOne intro connection. A handshake, a story, a "here's my number." The lowest-lift way to make a young
        Wildcat feel seen — perfect if your calendar is full but your heart's in it.
 +25 SHARE It Coins
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Level 2
Season-Long MentorCheck in as needed across the annual season — a call here, a coffee there, a text before a big test or
        game. Light-touch, on your terms, but a real presence in a player's year.
 +75 SHARE It Coins
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Level 3
Mentor CoachGo all in. Sign up to meet with an athlete — or a whole group — throughout the season, supporting their
        progress and inspiring them to connect, lift each other, and compete to win. The deepest wing-tap there is.
 +200 SHARE It Coins

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It all counts toward your team's totals — Old School or New Cats. Every introduction, all Chamber of Health engagement, every out-and-about Bingo card and badge earned. Whether you tap one wing or coach a whole group, you're putting points on the board for your side.

For the Players, Too

The Wildcat Wingtapping Cube Challenge

We call the practice of mentor & be mentored "Wingtapping" — and players play it too. Fill your Wingtapping Cube by both giving a tap (to a high schooler or youth player) and getting one (from an alum). Most of the autonomous learning happens right inside the Cube.

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Fall · Healthy Me

First months are autonomous, driven by the Healthy Me Bingo Cards.

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Spring · Community & Impact

Spring shifts to Community & Impact Projects — Healthy We & Us.

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Earn More SHARE It

Give time, talent, treasure & blood to bank extra SHARE It Coins.

The Wildcat Leadership Already In Place

We're not bringing strangers.
We're connecting family.

The people who make this work are already in the building. The Challenge simply gives their relationships a shared scoreboard and a year-long rhythm.

Radio Voice · In the Huddle

Glenn Howell

Wildcat O-line '83–'85, alumni elder, and host of "In the Huddle with Howell" on 1290 Wildcats Radio. The storytelling engine of the Challenge.

Hall of Famer · Exec. Director

Ricky Hunley

AZ Sports Hall of Fame '25, Super Bowl Bronco, founder of a Tucson youth camp, Exec. Director of Player Relations & External Development.

Player Development Director

Tobruk Blaine

Architect of the player development engine we plug into — internships, character work, and workforce readiness for the current roster.

Alumni & HS Relations

Brandon Sanders

Two-time All-Pac-10 safety, former NFL Giant, Coordinator of Football Alumni & HS Relations — the connector who brings the alumni in.

Virtual Coach & Host

Coach Lucy

CEO of The Force for Health Network — and Glenn's wife. Your virtual coach, hosting the Wildcat family from kickoff to the May banquet.

Virtual Coach · Clinical

Dr. Rob Gillio

FFH's virtual physician-educator. Co-hosts the health-literacy and career side alongside Coach Lucy — the clinical voice in the players' corner.

The High School Connection · Win #8

Match a Wildcat with an AIA program.

Part of the Players Challenge is connecting with a Southern Arizona high school — through the National Football Foundation (NFF Southern Arizona). Players choose how: a Meet & Greet, including the HS in their impact project, or encouraging that team to activate into Reality Health Games.

🤝 Meet & Greet 🧩 Include in your project 🎮 Activate them into Reality Health Games

Working roster from the NFF Southern Arizona field — ~70+ programs across 8 counties. AIA realigns every two years; we'll validate the final list with the AIA office.

Open / 6A

Largest Schools · Top Brackets

Cienega Pima
Tucson High Magnet Pima
Mountain View — Marana Pima
Ironwood Ridge Pima
Cibola Yuma

High-Volume Programs

Salpointe Catholic Pima
Sunnyside · Marana · Sahuaro Pima
Cholla · Desert View Pima
Buena Cochise
Casa Grande · Vista Grande · Maricopa Pinal
Kofa · Yuma · Gila Ridge · San Luis Yuma

Mid-Size · Deep Tucson Bench

Walden Grove · Empire Pima
Canyon del Oro · Catalina Foothills Pima
Flowing Wells · Rincon/University Pima
Pueblo · Amphitheater Pima
Nogales Santa Cruz
Douglas Cochise
Combs · Poston Butte · Apache Jct Pinal

Community-Anchor Programs

Sahuarita · Sabino · Catalina Pima
Pusch Ridge · Tanque Verde Pima
Palo Verde · Santa Rita Pima
Rio Rico Santa Cruz
Benson · Bisbee Cochise
Florence · Coolidge Pinal
Safford · Thatcher Graham
Parker La Paz

Small Schools · Deep Roots

San Miguel Pima
Tombstone · Willcox Cochise
San Manuel Pinal
Pima Graham
Morenci Greenlee

1A · 8-Man

Rural · Border · Tribal

Imago Dei · Lourdes Catholic Pima
St. David · Valley Union · Bowie Cochise
Patagonia Union Santa Cruz
Ray (Kearny) Pinal
Duncan Greenlee
Salome La Paz

For the A-Club & the Alumni Family

The connection doesn't end at the last whistle.

Many of our greatest losses come long after the playing days — Kwame Lassiter's sudden cardiac arrest is the reason this work exists. The Challenge wraps care around the whole alumni family, not just the active roster.

❤️ Heart & Health Screenings

Every alumni mentor and every athlete is offered cardiac screening through our partners — the Kwame Lassiter Foundation, NFLPA Alumni of Arizona, and the Sickle Cell Foundation of Arizona.

👨‍👩‍👧 Whole-Family Belonging

Families of current and former players earn coins together — a healthy-habit walk, a family Live It challenge, a story shared. Belonging that spans generations.

🏅 Recognition That Lasts

The May banquet spotlights the alumni, families, and teams who showed up most — woven into the existing A-Club and Letterwinner traditions, not bolted on beside them.

🤲 Causes That Matter to You

Breast cancer awareness, youth education, sickle cell, cardiac health — alumni rally the Wildcat family behind the causes already close to their hearts, the Larry Fitzgerald way.

The Ask

Let's run a Wildcat pilot together.

A small, concrete first step — built around relationships you already have.

1. Bless a founding pilot cohort — a Team Captain and a handful of alumni for the Old School and New Cats sides.
2. A warm intro to the A-Club and the monthly alumni call to invite the first mentors.
3. Connect us with TB's Player Development calendar so the internship-for-credit pipeline lines up with the season.
4. Coach Brennan's nod that this honors the character-first culture — that's all we need to start.

Bring this to

Brandon Sanders

Coordinator, Football Alumni & HS Relations

From Coach Lucy Howell
The Force for Health Network
with Glenn Howell & the alumni family

Bear Down & Grow Healthy Connections for all CATS

You already knowwhat you want.We built the rails for it.

Alumni-to-Player Mentorship

Support the Whole Family

Character & Potential First

The problem we're actually solving

Three tools. Zero new headcount.

The Matching Engine

The Brotherhood Directory

Player Cards

Every Wildcat gets a Profile. Every story gets celebrated.

Five questions. One living Legacy Book.

Two ways to capture it

Type & Upload

SHARE It Studio

What it builds

Old School vs The New Cats.

🏛️ Old School

⚡ The New Cats

"In the Huddle with Howell" becomes the heartbeat

Old School vs New Cats

Howell vs Hunley

Three ways to Bear Down for good.

Learn It

Live It

Share It

Every rung reaches down to lift the next.

NFLPA & Pro Alumni

UA Football Alumni · The A-Club

Current Wildcat Players

High School · NFF Southern Arizona

Youth · Tucson Youth Sport Football Federation

The Whole Community

This is the actual plan —quarter by quarter.

Recruit & Roster

Activate & Mentor

Connect & Grow

Showcase & Crown

Quarter 1's competitive stat

Ambassador

Mentor

Internship Site

Project Coach

This isn't just legacy. It's a paycheck-skill and a credit.

🎓 The Tobruk Play

Duke showed it works.We wrap it in wellness.

Borrowed from the best, built for health

Every Wildcat picks a lane to their next step.

Healthcare

Engineering & Space

Business & Entrepreneurship

10 modules. Healthy Me → Healthy We → Healthy Us.

Health Literacy Foundation

Healthy Habits

Identity Beyond the Game

Know Your Why

Meet Your Wingman

Team Health & Brotherhood

Social Determinants of Health

Pick Your Pathway

Ambassador Training

Capstone Activation

One play. Twelve wins.

Workforce & Connections First

Earn Alongside — and Check Your Own Health

Grow Your Team — One to Many

Players Become Ambassadors

Life After Football

Check Your Own Health

One-to-Many Recruiting

Instant Ambassadors

Grows the Alumni Base

A Reason to Lean In

Multi-Level Competition

AIA High School Link

High School → Youth

Recruit the Pros

100-Player Pilot

Sponsor Matching

Tap a wing. As much or as little as you've got.

Bear Down & Grow
Healthy Connections
for all CATS

You already know
what you want.
We built the rails for it.

This is the actual plan —
quarter by quarter.

Duke showed it works.
We wrap it in wellness.

We're not bringing strangers.
We're connecting family.

Bear Down sets the standard.
Then it travels.