Through the magic of the Internet, I have been able to reconnect with a good friend and former coaching colleague Carl Creasman. Carl's wife used to make these funky, extra long, unbelievably loud shorts that we wore on deck at swim meets. Hey, it was the 90's, and the kids got a kick out of them. Since that time Carl has been taking his passion for helping kids beyond a pool deck. Now known as the "College Success Guy," Carl has been impacting students for the past 20 years speaking at colleges across the country. One college president commented, "Carl has a gift for making complex ideas easily understood," reaching audiences "with a style and message that transcends the cultural challenges of postmodernism." Additionally, Carl is the founding Pastor at an innovative young church and a Professor of History at Valencia Community College in Orlando, FL.

I was able to catch Carl in a brief break following the end of the Fall semester and Christmas to ask him some questions about valor, being an athlete in faith, and what it means to be "heroic" in a post-modern world.