FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF
TEENS CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN

…AND COKER COLLEGE

MOVE WITHOUT THE BALL
Put Your Skills and Magic to Work for You
by STEDMAN GRAHAM

From Concept to Classroom:
Coker College is helping
Move Without the Ball™

Simon & Schuster: contact Lisa Sciambra, senior publicist,
at 212-698-4665

Hartsville, SC -- Working with S. Graham & Associates, Coker College has published a student workbook and an instructor’s guide to correspond with Stedman Graham’s latest book, Move Without the Ball. Graham, a New York Times best selling author and founder of Athletes Against Drugs (AAD), uses sports as a metaphor to encourage young athletes to look beyond professional sports to see new possibilities for their lives. He gives students—athletes and non-athletes—who don’t understand the value of education or being well-rounded, the process and life skills that enable them to reach their athletic, academic, education, health and sports performance goals.

Graham, who is a former European pro basketball player and now a businessman, realized that many teens were buying into the illusion conveyed by TV, advertising and magazines that it is easy to be a pro athlete. “Wanting to play sports is a worthy goal. But, what happens if you don’t make it? What then? Many young people don’t achieve their full potential because they don’t understand the process of success,” Graham says.

The new student workbook and instructor’s guide, developed by Graham, Coker College and public school educators in Darlington County, S.C., offer a practical solution for introducing Move Without the Ball concepts into the classroom. The Move Without the Ball curriculum is written to national standards for physical education curricula and it is already being used in South Carolina in Darlington High School, Darlington Junior High School and Hartsville High School. To launch the Move Without the Ball curriculum, a private Pep Rally has been organized at the Charlotte Marriott City Center on November 8, from 10a.m. to 12pm. Celebrity athletes have been invited.

“We have found the Move Without the Ball curriculum to be extremely adaptable for group and individual lessons and multiple grade levels,” says Dr. Rainey H. Knight, Superintendent of Education, Darlington County School District. “Because the characters are actual contemporary figures that the students know, Move Without the Ball has an authenticity that cannot be found in other programs. The curriculum promotes goal setting and character development in a context that students can recognize and apply.”

Creating the Move Without the Ball curriculum is an initiative of Coker College’s Center for Research in Leadership and Community Development. For more information on the Student Workbook and Instructor’s Guide, contact the Office of the Provost, Coker College, 300 East College Avenue, Hartsville, SC 29550 or call 843.383.8012.

About the Author:
Stedman Graham, author of the New York Times bestsellers You Can Make It Happen and Teens Can Make It Happen, is the chairman and CEO of S. Graham and Associates, a management and marketing consulting firm, and the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Applied Leadership at Coker College. He is also the founder of Athletes Against Drugs, a nonprofit organization that fights substance abuse and promotes youth leadership. An adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Stedman lives in Chicago.

MOVE WITHOUT THE BALL: Put Your Skills and Magic to Work for You
By Stedman Graham
A Fireside Original/ Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: August 2004 / Price: $14.00 / ISBN: 0-7432-3440-5

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For more information on Coker College's Center for Research in Leadership and Community Development, contact Dr. Jim Lemke, director, or visit http://www.coker.edu/educationleadership/CenterRLCD.htm

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