student success statement     

CHOICE

"Success is not an accident. success is actually choice. are the habits you have today on par with the dreams you have of tomorrow?"

          

Alan Stein buzzed about the Rockville gym at his usual supercharged pace, making sure all of the equipment was in place. There were the large padded boxes to jump on for an exercise to develop vertical leaping, oversize elastic bands to place around one’s legs and develop core strength, tennis balls to drop from a short distance that one could catch — two at a time — for a drill to sharpen focus and peripheral vision.
Stein, 35, had spent much of the previous two weeks all over the country at camps run by the world’s top basketball players, paid to put many of the nation’s top high school players through a daily warmup. On this recent sweltering summer afternoon, however, his last-minute preparations were for a group of 10 teenagers who had no dreams to play in college or the NBA or concerns about leg strength and flexibility.
It didn’t bother Stein in the least. “I try