LEGACY.

is the first school in the state of Texas that focuses on the professions within athletics. The Legacy curriculum has been crafted with industry experts to expose students to four athletic career paths: athletic administration, coaching, sports media and/or sports medicine. In addition, we have partnered with Houston Community College to provide students an opportunity to graduate (from our high school) with a high school diploma and the possibilities to be college core complete or up to 60 college credit hours.

Our district has been created for the student that is interested in athletics.

With the help of industry experts and campus partners Legacy will provide rigorous and meaningful programs that will keep students engaged and motivated to learn- daily.

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Often we are asked how we came up with the concept of Legacy the School of Sport Sciences. Well the motivation was after Reginald “Reggie” Brown. A student athlete (football player) from Texas A&M University that was a NFL first round draft pick to the Detroit Lions (96′). After Reggie’s second year on the field he suffered a career ending injury. His experience lead us to create the school concept behind Legacy the School of Sport Sciences. We believe that being a player is a job, but learning about professions in the industry can create a career. Read Reggie’s miraculous story below from writer Dave Anderson from the New York Times. And see how his experience helped shape Legacy the School of Sport Sciences. On Dec. 21, 1997, as a second-year linebacker with the Detroit Lions, this 6-foot-2-inch first-round draft choice out of Texas A&M suddenly couldn’t turn his neck at all. Early in the fourth quarter of a 13-10 victory over the Jets in that season’s finale, he and another Lions linebacker, Antonio London, had tackled running back Adrian Murrell after a 2-yard gain. The other players got up, but Brown didn’t. He was not only not moving, but he was also not breathing and he was unconscious. Doctors and trainers hurried to him.”It was a routine play, but somebody fell backwards on me,” he said. ”I was in the wrong position, I guess. I just remember the few seconds before I went out.” Unconscious and unable to breathe or move, his face was turning blue. Moments earlier, the 77,624 spectators in the Pontiac Silverdome had been roaring, but now, as they and all the television viewers stared silently at what is football’s scariest scene, you could hear a tear drop. ”I stopped breathing for a minute and a half, they told me later,” Brown said. Out there near the Jets’ 30-yard line, Dr. Terry Locke, then the Lions’ orthopedist, and Kent Falb, then their trainer, saved Brown’s life with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation that got him breathing. After an ambulance rolled onto the field, its red lights flashing, he was rushed to a Pontiac hospital. ”I was unconscious for 30 or 40 minutes,” he said. ”I didn’t come to until I was in the hospital.” Unable to move his arms and legs, Brown feared that he might never walk again. He had sustained a bruised spinal cord that, according to Dr. Russell Nockels, created a ”complete collapse in terms” of Brown’s being able to breathe and move his limbs. But his paralysis turned out to be temporary. The next morning, Brown had surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit to fuse the first and second vertebrae in his neck. ”Two days later, I took my first steps,” he said. ”That’s when I knew that I would be able to walk without any problems.” Kerrie Patterson, now his wife, had flown into Detroit that afternoon. Their plan was if the Jets won, thereby knocking the Lions out of the playoffs, they both would return to Texas where she was playing basketball at Texas A&M. If the Lions won to qualify for the playoffs, she would stay for a week. ”I was supposed to pick her up after the game,” Brown said. ”Instead, she came to the hospital and stayed a couple of weeks.” Nearly three weeks later, Brown, wearing a halo-style neck brace, walked to a podium and held a news conference. Several days later, on a private jet chartered by the Lions, he and his parents returned to Texas. He spent a week at a Houston hospital in physical therapy. Two months later, he discarded the neck brace. He graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in agriculture economics in 1999. By DAVE ANDERSON for The New York Times

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Legacy has been created to teach students the business and science behind Sport. Interested in learning how we plan to “Change the Language of Sport”, click HERE for more information.

The mission of Legacy is to provide a rigorous, well-balanced college preparatory program that focuses on educational experiences through the use of a thematic, work-based curriculum for academics, athletics, and professions within athletics.

The founding board members, administration, and staff will fulfill the school’s mission by upholding to the vision, which is to educate an inspire gifted and talented students through their interest of careers in athletics, such as athletic administration, coaching, sports media, and sports medicine. Our intention it to use the professions within the athletic industry to inspire each student to perform at a level leading to successful matriculation at a four-year institution, or post secondary training, culminating in a rewarding career in sports business or sports STEM.

The purpose is to create a mode of education that is relevant to all Legacy students.