Students at Lone Star Elementary had some powerful visitors on Friday, September 19, when The Power Team visited their school.
The Power Team is a group of world-class athletes comprised of former college and professional athletes, military personnel, bodybuilders and world record holders who travel to schools and churches to encourage children and adults to make good choices.
During their presentation, The Power Team’s athletes perform their “Strong Man” routine, and while they were at Lone Star, they blew up a hot water bottle until it exploded, tore a phonebook in half, broke a wooden baseball bat and bent a steel bar into the shape of a fish.
Although their feats of strength demonstrated how strong they are, the main purpose of their visit was to motivate the students to make positive choices and to stay away from drugs, alcohol and people who would lead them down the wrong path.
“You can either be a dreammaker or a dreambreaker,” said team member Matt Dopson. “Choose to be a winner, and hold on to your goals and dreams.”
Principal Elizabeth Kavanagh told her students she was keeping the broken bat in her office to remind them to make good decisions.
The Power Team has performed in more than 26,000 school assemblies over the past 20 years, and is ranked as one of the top school assemblies in the nation. Believing that inspiration and motivation equals academic and personal achievement, they tackle the tough issues of drugs, alcohol, violence, abstinence, peer pressure and suicide.
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