Congrats man! Very excited for you!

first of many! congrats💯

Built on the 210!! Ballers tap in

Thankful to say after just 4 months post ACL surgery, I’m finally able to get back into the groove of normal movements again. Excited to see where the progress goes in the next few weeks!! @Kratz210 @jwagner2231 @CoachBaker_ @CoachLara14 @BryonCoachG @JButler_210 @CoachBP95

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Happy to announce I’ve accepted a position at Lovejoy High School! Excited to move back to DFW and get to work! @leopardfootball

Historic WARRIOR WIN!🏆 REGIONAL CHAMPIONS💜 Final vs Cedar Park 4-2 OT #phspurplereign #pieperwarriors #pieperwarriorsoccer @cisdnews

Girls soccer: @PHSWARRIORSGSOC in UIL Class 5A Division II regional final for second straight year. The Warriors will face defending state champion Cedar Park, which rallied from 2-0 deficit to defeat McAllen Memorial 3-2. Cedar Park edged Pieper 1-0 in 2025 regional final.

💜REGIONAL SEMIFINAL CHAMPIONS💜 #phspurplereign #pieperwarriorssoccer #pieperwarriors @cisdnews

5-0 @PHSWARRIORSGSOC less than a minute later…..

THANK YOU COACH!

Hats off to @PHSWARRIORSGSOC. Winners win and you did that tonight. So proud. Graduated 7 starters, coaching change , battles injuries a challenges all year and still came out on top tonight. Carl Erik F. Stolhandske you are one coaching son of a gun!

Great being back at Mobility Worldwide today. They build mobility carts for people in developing countries who are unable to walk. If you’re looking for a great way to give back, this is an awesome cause. mobilityworldwide.org

Connor Hellebuyck made 41 saves in the gold medal game for team USA. Canada outshot the US by 15. Without Hellebuyck, the US gets blown out. But a decade ago, not a single major junior league in North America thought he was worth drafting. The story of how he got from there to here tells you everything about what resilience actually looks like. Hellebuyck came out of Walled Lake Northern High School in Commerce, Michigan. They weren't a hockey factory, and he was basically a nobody as a prospect. He went undrafted by both the the two main junior leagues that feed college and pro hockey. No one wanted him. So as an 18 year old, he drove 12 hours by himself from Michigan to Minnesota for an open tryout. He got one shot...for the Odessa Jackalopes. So he moved to Texas... His former GM and goalie coach Joe Clark remembers: "We had like eight goalies at tryouts, no one knew anything about him. Connor stood out. He made the team and he was a no-brainer for us as a staff. But he really had no resume whatsoever before that." Hellebuyck led the league in games, minutes, and total saves. Won Rookie of the Year and Goaltender of the Year. All in a city where football is religion and few know hockey even exists Even with his performance, his next opportunities were few and far between... UMass Lowell was the only school to offer him a spot. His first college start went so poorly that he got pulled and benched for over a month. Most players spiral in that moment: "I'm not good enough, the stage is too big, I don't belong here." Hellebuyck called Joe Clark and said, "The game is not as fast as I just made it out to be." Clark couldn't believe it. He'd just gotten pulled and his takeaway was that he'd been over-prepared. That he expected the game to be faster. It gave a clue into how he saw failure, and why he's so resilient. When something bad happens, we have a choice: how are we going to integrate this into our story. Story one: I got pulled because I'm not ready or good enough. Story two: I got pulled because I was putting too much pressure on myself and expecting the game to be better than it was. Hellebuyck chose the latter. "I was more ready, more prepared than I had given myself credit for." By the end of the season, he'd backstopped UMass Lowell to its first Frozen Four in program history. The numbers after that benching are absurd. In two college seasons, he had a 38-12-2 record, .946 save percentage, and 12 shutouts. He won the inaugural Mike Richter Award as the best goalie in college hockey. All from a kid who couldn't get drafted by a junior league three years earlier. "All the hardships that I had to go through early in my career were lessons learned. That's all I use them for. I didn't let them knock me down. I just kind of created a version of myself where I was just going to continue to adapt." Even after college dominance, it wasn't smooth. He was drafted in the 5th round, 130th overall by the Winnipeg Jets. He worked his way up from the AHL to becoming the starter in 2017. He's now won three Vezina Trophies. The Hart Trophy as league MVP. And according to most measure, he's the best regular-season goalie of his generation. But the one knock that wouldn't go away? He couldn't win in the playoffs. Whent he lights shined brightest, the media and fans said he struggled. Last spring, he got pulled three times in the first round of the playoffs against St. Louis. Just like before, others were trying to write his story: great in the regular season, can't show up when it matters. And once again, he showed that resilience is about ignoring what others write, and penning your own narrative. Canada threw 41 shots at him. He stopped all but one. Star Connor McDavid had a breakaway in the second period that he denied. Devon Toews had a wide-open rebound with Hellebuyck out of position. He got his stick on it. He played out of his mind. Or as the hockey saying goes, he was standing on his head. "Those critics, they can keep writing. But they don't understand goaltending. They don't understand my game. I know what I'm putting forward. I know what I'm building. These are the moments that prove it — not that I need to." We often get resilience wrong. We think you either have it or don't. That it's about toughening it out. It's what I kept coming across while researching my book toughness, Do Hard Things. But Hellebuyck's story gives us the nuance: It's a skill built through repeated encounters with failure...but only if you process those failures correctly. Every stop in his career told him he wasn't enough. Undrafted. Benched. Cut from camp. Pulled in the playoffs. But at each stop, he chose the same interpretation: this is information, not my identity. Most people let setbacks become self-definitions. Hellebuyck let them become data points. And the guy who processes failure as calibration rather than catastrophe is the guy you want when 41 shots are coming at him in a gold medal game. Hellebuyck described his own story today the way he always has: "I would probably say the underdog story. Constantly going and being an underdog and just making it work, persevering and getting through." He drove 12 hours alone to a tryout in Minnesota when no one wanted him. His only shot was in the Friday Night Lights town of Texas. He got pulled from his first college start and decided the problem was that he'd overestimated the difficulty, not underestimated his own ability. He got pulled three times in last year's playoffs and showed up to the Olympics as the best goalie in the tournament. Write your own story. And tell it well.

Full video of Johnny Gaudreau’s kids honored on the ice #USA #USAHockey

Liz, Henry, and I are fired up to start this new journey! Can’t wait to get boots on the ground and meet the kids, coaches, staff, parents, and Community!

Was an honor to be recognized by our coaches as Defensive MVP. Thank you all for helping me be my best! @FootballPieper @CoachBaker_ @CoachBP95 @coachesalas @Zaireanderson13 @JButler_210 @iam_alinedouard @_RL_Martin @TomLoy247 @BDammone @JGonzalesJr10 @Zaireanderson13 @Rivals @247Sports @dctf @LoneStarPrepsTX @PrepRedzoneTX @sixstarfootball

So excited for my dawg! @CoachElkinsHSU & the @HSUCowboys have a phenomenal football player & an even better human on the roster now!

#AGTG After a great conversation with @CoachDBaker81 I'm blessed to receive my 8th D1 offer to @BUFootball @CoachDaveAranda @CoachBaker_ @FootballPieper @247Sports @JButler_210 @Rivals @RivalsHS @SicemRecruiting @BaylorBears247 @RallyPreps @LoneStarPrepsTX @PrepRedzone

RT @TylerLaCombe11: Blessed to receive a D2 Scholarship offer from @UCWV_Football @coachtesch @CoachBaker_ @FootballPieper x.com/sd_robs…