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Mack Calvin leads students through the most powerful life principles they need to pursue their dreams and goals, and more to achieve greatness!
Mack shares his own unique story, no holds barred. He connects with their souls and shows the students how his own personal struggles can positively change their world and change their lives!
Create stronger relationships with others
Overcome bullying
Find acceptance in others and oneself
Develop patience in one's self
Learn how to better deal with social challenges and life's stressors
Peacefully stand up for social change and justice
Increase their performance in-and-out of the Classroom
Take responsibility for their own actions
Learn how to say "I am sorry"
Learn how to say "I need help"
Create stronger relationships with others
Overcome bullying
Find acceptance in others and oneself
Develop patience in one's self
Learn how to better deal with social challenges and life's stressors
Peacefully stand up for social change and justice
Increase their performance in-and-out of the Classroom
Take responsibility for their own actions
Learn how to say "I am sorry"
Learn how to say "I need help"
Mack Calvin is a Former ABA-NBA Five Time All-Star Player and Coach, and Future Naismith Basketball Hall Of Fame. Mack Calvin is the living embodiment of making it against all odds!
His passion and commitment is to inspire young people and others how to remove the “Mental Handcuffs” from their lives to achieve greatness and dream big!!
Mack, was born in Fort Worth, Texas and raised on a small farm by his grandparents. His mother and three other siblings moved to Los Angeles, California (Watts) at the age of nine years old to join their father.
During Mack early years, while living in the projects of Watts, he developed his basketball skills playing for the Parks And Recreation Of Los Angeles. At the tender age of fifteen years old, his parents moved to Long Beach, California and Mack attended Long Beach Poly where his basketball skills really developed.
His varsity basketball team winning record was sixty seven wins and one loss. During his two years of competition in the State of California High School competition. During his Senior year, he was the team captain and led the team to a undefeated season with a record of 34-0.
For his efforts, he was voted to the all CIF team and named one of the top ten players in the State of California.
Mack Calvin received over one hundred scholarship offers and letters. Unfortunately, Mack was only reading at the seventh grade level and had a 1.7 GPA. In order to graduate, Ms. Johnson changed his grade in Arts and Crafts to a “C” in order for him to graduate along with his classmates.
Because, of his lack of commitment to studying and negative environment at home, Mack was forced to attend Long Beach City College.
It was at LBCC where Mack met his basketball coaches, Bill Barnes and Chuck Kane, who took an interest in him as a person and were concerned about him as a Student Athlete and made him focus in the classroom.
Mack Calvin graduated from LBCC with academic honors and chose the University of Southern California (USC) over fifty other colleges, including UCLA. Mack Graduated from USC majoring in Sociology.
Mack Calvin believes that all teens are troubled! It is part of the territory! Drugs, alcohol, violence, stress, depression, bullying, peer pressure and self doubt. This is the real world of drama of our young people today!
Mack Calvin shares with our youth and others that real motivation comes from within one’s self and self esteem! Believing that their is greatness inside us!!
