UVa-Wise Football provides a great opportunity for student-athletes to learn life lessons and values that are very important to their educational experience. Because football encompasses a large number of participants, students who participate have a unique opportunity to co-exist and cooperate in a setting of diversity and a greater number impact the student-body. Balancing obligations of football with academics can be very challenging; yet, our student-athletes understand the importance of a quality education from UVa-Wise. Through long hours of training, practice, and studying on their own they develop self-discipline and independence.