Growing up I was raised by my mother, Ann Murray, who ensured that my brother and I were raised in a household that highly emphasized academics and athletics. My mother is a middle school principal and a former basketball player at West Virginia University. I’ve always excelled in the classroom, making honour roll each year throughout high school, and receiving awards for having the highest overall grade in some of my classes. I started playing basketball in the sixth grade;

The Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model was created by Sport for Life. LTAD is a Canadian model designed to help educate the community at large, as well as provide sport organizations (governing and non governing) with a format to guide the development of children in sport and athletics. Their mission is to provide, “A clear path to better sport, greater health, and higher achievement”. It is essential that our children are not only active, but also participate in spor

Science is my favourite school subject because Science involves experiments and explosions. Science makes me say, WOW! Science teaches you a lot of things like: space, animals and humans. You could learn a lot from Science. Everybody should like Science. #science #kids #sport #camp #education

Growing up I was raised by my mother and sister's father, Gary Lodge. He was a eccentric man, an out of the box thinker. He was a school teacher, an avid learner (he completed his PhD in Education at the age of 58), a runner, a biker and a lover of humanity. For as long as I can remember, my father would refer to my sisters and I, our friends and his students as “Scholars”. Scholar is defined as, “a person who is highly educated or has an aptitude for study”. I was refer