On this episode of Alumni Direct's show "ATHLETES TO ENTREPRENEURS: The Alumni Journey," we talk to Josh Copeland, former college football player, youth tutor, and motivational speaker.
Talk about playing sports growing up, and share how it helped to shape your life.
"Sports played a big part in my life. I have 4 brothers, and we're a big baseball family. As a way to keep us from fighting, and to keep us out of trouble, my parents put us into sports. Baseball is our first love; we still talk about it to this day and we still follow MLB. I gravitated to basketball and football; I played all 3 growing up. It was great; it was a way to keep us out of trouble. But then, sports teaches you a lot of life lessons. And a lot of how to handle adversity, how to be self-motivated, hard work, dedication. It teaches you all these things...and it molded me into the person I am today."
Talk about your transition out of sports:
"Everybody is different when they transition out, but for me, I really struggled because my whole identity was tied up in who I was as an athlete, because I played for so long. And everybody that I met from about 6 years old to 25, outside of my family, I met through sports. So this whole community around me and the people that I was meeting, I met through sports. That became who I was and I didn't know that I even had to develop "me" as a person outside of sports. Because like I said, my whole world was sports. It was very difficult for me to transition out of it, mentally."
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