It’s four hours before gametime and Terri Tucker is arriving at Reeds Spring High School with her contribution to the “Feed the Wolves” program. The football team’s pregame meal.
Her son Caden is a sophomore defensive end and H-back on the current team and her older son Connor played for the Wolves from 2016-2018. So Terri is a long-time supporter of the program, even playing a big part in acquiring the synthetic turf now on the football field that came from the University of Cincinnati.
“I was working with the Pro Football Hall of Fame and David Baker and we had our family up in Canton and David Baker asked Connor ‘Are you gonna be good this year in districts’ and Connor said, ‘I don’t know we suck in mud’. So David learned we didn’t have turf and said, ‘I wanna help those kids’. And so the Pro Football Hall of Fame helped us get the beautiful field we have today.”
But Terri’s latest football-related project is a new book now available on Amazon called “Iron Wolf: Creating an Exceptional Culture of Engagement and Responsibility.”
As a professional speaker, writer, and leadership coach with her own consulting business since 1996, Terri found the perfect subject matter to teach eight lessons on leadership. The Reeds Spring football program itself.
“It was the summer of Connor’s freshman year and I was so glad to sleep in for the summer and he came and woke me up at six in the morning and said, ‘C’mon mom, we gotta go lift weights.’ So I started wondering what was going on in the football program at Reeds Spring High School that would make a 14 year-old boy get up every morning at six o’clock. And I realized that their leader and their team was creating a culture of greatness.”
As the book points out “all things are possible through great leadership” and the “Strength of the Wolf is in the Pack”
