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WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
EVERY ATHLETE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE ELITE ATHLETE
IF YOU HAVE EVER WONDERED WHO AM I WITHOUT MY SPORT THEN KEEP READING
Sports gave you an operating system. It installed your identity, your purpose, your standard, your community — automatically, over years of practice and competition. You never had to think about it. It just ran.
Then the game ended. Instantly you were ripped away from the locker room, your teammates, and everything you knew for decades of your life yet your same operating system kept running — in a world it was never designed for, without a scoreboard, without a locker room, without anyone to help you upgrade it.
"Drift isn't failure. It isn't weakness. It's what happens when you run elite software in an environment that wasn't built for it — and nobody tells you how to upgrade."
When the Scoreboard Goes Dark is a book built from what it looks like being in a post-sport identity loss and what that loss actually cost. It's not some theory. Not a framework designed in a boardroom. It's the actual real cost and lived experience of a former D1 athlete who hit bottom — and rebuilt everything from scratch.
This book is for you if:
- You are 1 to 20+ years out of sport and still can't explain why the wins don't feel the way they used to.
- You are high-performing by every external measure and feel nothing when you hit the numbers.
- You keep performing fine for the people around you while something underneath has been quietly wrong for years.
- You know the competitive drive is still there — you just can't find an arena worthy of it.
What early readers are saying...
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"I've read every book on transition and identity. This is the first one that felt like it was written about me specifically. The chapter on 'performing fine' alone is worth the whole book — I've never seen that experience put into words before."
- Ryan b
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'As someone who had the privilege to preview this upcoming book, I'm excited for its release. The content is refreshing and thought-provoking. It is extremely relatable and will be able to help every athlete out there. Can't wait to see the waves it makes when it launches!'
- JANNA S
About the author
I've felt called for years to write this book yet it just never came to be because it wasn't the right time. There were things I still needed to go through in order to truly know how to come out the other side.
I wrote this book because 16 years ago when I was done competing on the football field I needed it. This is for every athlete especially that collegiate or professional athlete as a way to make sure you don't go through 13 years of pain, heartbreak, brokenness, and destruction.
I'm thrilled to finally share my first published work with readers like you. This book isn't just about my journey, although that is what I use, it is about the journey that every athlete has to take once their scoreboard goes dark.
The void is not unfillable.
The game didn't end.
You just lost your scoreboard. Get on the list.
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