Lacrosse player. Radio show host. Small business owner. Sadie Dodson, currently a sophomore at Tuft’s University, is the epitome of a “Tenacity Project athlete.” Born and raised in the Bay Area in Northern California, Dodson played for Tenacity and graduated from...

Annie Mattimore is part of what we call Original BearLaxers: players, coaches, and families who have been around since 2007 when the program that gave birth to the Tenacity Project was founded. One of five Mattimore children in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of...

Anna Whitworth’s “tenacity tale” just got a little more interesting. In late February, she had broken into the starting lineup for her Amherst College team, playing midfield for the #15 ranked squad, when she tore her anterior cruciate ligament: the ACL. It was a...

Randy Gross Growing up watching sports with my parents, we always admired the championship athletes shown on TV, but I learned from an early age that real heroes are people found off-screen. I have been lucky enough to be around someone who embodies the word hero...

Nakeeya McCardell Some people really are the best. Nakeeya McCardell transferred from the University of Oregon to Clemson University before her junior year of college to be part of Clemson’s “Team One” – the first year of Division One lacrosse at Clemson. The...

Malina Hatton  Do you ever wonder what a hard worker looks like? Well, meet Malina Hatton, a former Tenacity player and a recent West Point Military Academy graduate, Malina is now a student at Harvard Medical School. As one of just sixteen West Point cadets to...