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Where did this vision come from?

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My vision came from back when I played football and back in Silver Spring.

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I grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and I was fortunate enough to be dedicated for two football programs,

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two football organizations that became nationally known organizations.

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For me, as you just experienced, my name could be fairly difficult to pronounce.

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It's Aswan Crookshank, and the game of football is where I got my acceptance.

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The game of football is where I was able to, it didn't matter how different I actually was.

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The game of football is where I was able to, it just didn't matter if you were different.

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The only thing that matters was were you willing to work hard.

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And the vision came from a dedication to these two organizations that I was a part of

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that again became nationally known and have a championship level expectation about them.

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And knowing what it took to build these programs, to be a part of building these programs from scratch,

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is what built my vision to know that teamwork actually does work.

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One of the titles to my keynotes is Team Works, because I've seen it work,

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and I've seen it create just incredible, incredible things for people.