When you turn on the TV and watch the news, you usually don’t get a great story about a young adult doing great stuff.
But that doesn’t mean those stories don’t exist!
The Burnaby Mountain Selects gang have started putting together profiles of local athletes who are going on to 
college…and then on to changing their worlds!
I LOVE to think about the impact of hundreds of these lacrosse players over time getting their educations, finding rewarding careers and then helping to change the world around them in a positive way.
The story that I’ll link you to specifically is about Andrew Bromley, a local player off to college and doing great things. Chris and Andrew would have been together in the BMS system in 2008.
Excerpt:
What role did your family have in helping you get to where you are now?
The only reason I am where I am really. From immediate family, my mom making the paper work happen (important), my dad for pushing me, my little brothers (trying to show them the way), and the endless support from extended family from my irreplaceable grandmother to my aunts and uncles who would always pump my tires up a bit when I was feeling stressed or down.
What is the best piece of advice that you have ever received?
Man that’s a really tough question, I have been a part of many, many big speeches with meanings too long for this piece. I am going to have to say a piece of advice from Gord Lawton, “Its going to be the hardest thing you’ve ever done kid, go to the net like no ones going to stop you, play within the team, but don’t lose your individuality” or a line said by many of the great enforcers of the previous NHL era’s, “Be for the boys, there all you’ve got in here, no one ever questioned the integrity of a guy who would drop ‘em for a team mate”
LOVE IT!
That’s Be The Best.
And for all of us parents and coaches and relatives and friends out there…we can never underestimate the positive power of our words and actions with the future generation.
Congrats Andrew. Great stuff!
Be The Best. 