Donald Driver Brings ‘New Year, New Kickoff’ To Alcorn State

Former Alcorn State University athlete and NFL Super Bowl Champion Donald Driver has partnered along with his alma mater to assist develop applications and initiatives for student-athletes attending the college.

Alcorn State Athletics announced a partnership with Driver’s firm, Driven Elite, to deliver transformative programming to the campus beginning Jan. 20. The firm “specializes in life-changing health, vitamin, and way of life applications to suit an individual’s objectives and desires.” The college shall be concerned with Driven Elite’s “New Year, New Kickoff” initiative.

“Driven Elite is dedicated to making a secure, empowering setting for student-athletes at Alcorn State to strengthen their psychological resilience, management, and sense of id each on and off the sphere,” mentioned Driver in a written assertion. “We consider psychological well being drives efficiency, and efficiency shapes life. Through intentional funding in younger women and men, we offer mentorship, mindset growth, and purpose-driven programming. The SURGE program for feminine student-athletes focuses on proudly owning id, exhibiting up with function, and creating lasting affect in each area they enter.

“Alcorn State is the best place for these applications to develop, and I’m honored to be a part of this motion with Driven Elite at my alma mater.”

The athletics division will obtain specialised programming for each women and men student-athletes that addresses vital areas of athletic growth, psychological well being, and total wellness.

Driven Elite will work on the SURGE initiative by selling girls’s sports activities by constructive teaching methodologies and athlete help. The girls will obtain athletic gear and customized dietary info to assist them optimize efficiency and promote long-term well being. 

“SURGE represents our dedication to elevating girls’s sports activities and making certain our feminine student-athletes have entry to the sources, steering, and help they should excel,” mentioned Alcorn State Athletic Director D’Wayne Robinson. “We’re grateful for this partnership that acknowledges the distinctive wants of our girls’s applications.”

For male student-athletes, a psychological well being consciousness program is being launched that can characteristic a confidential app connecting them with licensed psychological well being professionals. The modern platform permits athletes to hunt help privately, selling braveness and decreasing stigma round psychological well being in athletics. The initiative will give them a secure area to debate nervousness, efficiency stress, despair, and different psychological well being issues with certified professionals.

Driver performed his collegiate profession at Alcorn State from 1995 to 1998. He spent his entire 13-year profession with the Green Bay Packers, the place he was a four-time Pro Bowl choice and helped the group win the Super Bowl in 2011.