Ask most people, and they will tell you there's a hand behind their success; maybe a parent, a teacher, or – like in this story – a coach and his organization.
Ask most people, and they will tell you there’s a hand behind their success; maybe a parent, a teacher, or – like in this story – a coach and his organization.
One of them now serves at Kenwood Academy High School, tutoring and helping students be the best they can be, but she’ll tell you a big part of what helped shape her into the woman she is today was her time with the Southside Wolfpack.Back then, Johnson was a self-proclaimed “awkward fifth grader;” a bookworm; but when she joined Wolfpack as a cheerleader, she quickly broke out of her shell.That quiet little girl found the voice within, thanks to the Southside Wolfpack.
“I think it’s absolutely time for our young men and our young women to see what strong Black men look like in their community, and that’s what the Wolfpack is for me,” he said.Just last year, he and his team celebrated 12 baseball players who got college scholarships. Years after wolfpack, Coutee-Bouyer graduated from Texas A&M. He now works at the Social Security Administration. He’s also an entrepreneur, designing clothes for men and women.
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