Above: Brent Pottenger with former Sacramento Kings player, Tyus Edney (and his son) "You have to have a backup plan," shared one student-athlete this past weekend at GPACompton. Game Plan Academy (GPA) opened camp this past Saturday in Compton, California (Los Angeles). Over the past few months, my brother, Kai Pottenger, and I have worked collaboratively with the Compton Unified School District, Revolution Test Prep, and the University of Southern California to create a small pilot program for male and female basketball players at Dominguez, Centennial, and Compton high schools. The goal of GPA is to provide students (for free) with personalized and professional academic and athletic

Former NFL athletes Gio Carmazzi and Alex Van Dyke returned for year two of the Game Plan Academy camp Sunday. Offered to high school freshmen, sophomores and juniors in the Sacramento area, the camp combines football and academics with the goal of translating hard work on the field into classrooms off the field. Most of the approximately 10 staff - student athletes themselves - grew up in Sacramento attending Jesuit High School, including former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Gio Carmazzi. While Carmazzi did not have wild expectations for the first season, he said he was pleasantly surprised at the outcome so far. "The three returning quarterbacks from last year, they're doing so well