For generations the names of great athletes have echoed along school corridors, local basketball courts, and grid irons across the nation; names of athletes that were unable to attend college because they lacked the grades or character to make it to the next level. Prodigy Athletes was established to provide roadmaps to student athletes in pursuit of athletic scholarships, and guide them through the pitfalls that lay waste to millions of talented athletes a year. The athletic and leadership training that has become the Prodigy Athletes program was developed over a decade of outreach experience.

Founder, Troy Keali’i Lau began the UCLA Mentorship Program while attending the University in 1996. The program, that is now called PIER, provides on campus resources in the Los Angeles Unified School District for Polynesian high school student athletes that seek college admittance. After receiving the UCLA Chancellor’s Award and participating as the Keynote Speaker at the 1998 UCLA Graduation, Troy Lau went on to serve the AIGA Foundation; a program that tests, mentors, and places student athletes in collegiate programs.

Prodigy Athletes was developed to provide day to day interaction to battle high attrition, high drop-out rates, and character malfeasance. Day to day interaction has proven to change the student athletes’ way of life, the way they think. That split second it takes to make the right or wrong decision is driven into their daily agendas, and they are held accountable. Coaches, parents and teachers contact us on the student athletes’ behavior, and tutoring is made available to those that ask; and assigned to those that need it. The student athletes prepare year around for the expectations of their desired collegiate programs.

Prodigy Athletes programs that provide stepping stones towards collegiate aspirations include our Prodigy Athletes Training Program, Home School Program, College Visits, 7 on 7 Showcase Team, and our Recruiting Services. Our Prodigy Athletes Training Program prepares our student athletes physically and mentally for college sports. Our Home School Program allows youth athletes to prepare academically for high school and college by providing accelerated learning programs while optimizing their physical growth with nutrition and training. Prodigy Athletes does not charge the community for its College Visits; a program where all our athletes are able to tour college campuses hosted by the college coaches and understand visually what it is their toil and sacrifice pays for. The 7 on 7 showcase team is another free service that allows our football athletes to perform in front of college coaches, and tour their respective campuses. Prodigy Athletes also provides its Recruiting Services at no cost. While recruiting companies charge thousands of dollars for their services, it is the Founder’s belief that the student athletes have paid for their recruiting services with the sweat and sacrifice of their participation.

The mission of Prodigy Athletes was to develop a program that would create transformational change. A program that educates the student athletes and their families, a program with a history whose credibility causes peremptory change of action, and a program that creates leaders who will change the World by simply being in it. It is our nature to assume the characteristics of those we admire, and it is this fact that drives Prodigy Athletes. When young athletes come into the gym and see the posters of scholarship athletes that have been through the program before them, they envision themselves up on the wall. They know that the program will guide them as long as they commit… to never quit.

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