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Help Zo Athletes Pursue Their Collegiate Dreams
Every year Lorenzo (Zo) Maxwell-Spikes and his Elite Recruit 300 team take a group of Young athletes on a 10-day road trip across the southern United States. This trip offers most of Zo’s trainees their only opportunity to showcase their skills to college football coaches on college campuses. These Summer football camps have become almost mandatory for rising high school juniors and seniors seeking to further their education while playing college football at Division1 Schools.
In the last ten years, Zo and his team have helped 46 kids sign scholarship offers to attend such prestigious institutions as Austin Peay, Cornell, the US Naval Academy, the University of Colorado, the Universities of Florida and Tennessee, Virginia Tech University, Vanderbilt, Auburn, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida, Clemson, Ohio State, Western Kentucky University, Southern Miss, Texas Tech, Idaho, Nebraska, Rhodes College, Lake Forest College, Tennessee Tech, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, University of Tennessee Martin, Louisville, West Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky and many other excellent schools.
Last year’s Summer Football Camp trip resulted in 100% Collegiate Admission for all 12 camp attendees with 11 currently playing college football but that trip would not have been possible without the financial contributions of generous GoFundMe donors like you!
This fundraiser is to help cover the cost of travel and hotels for the 2018 Summer football camp trip. Zo and his team always make every effort to ensure their trips are as cost effective and as efficient as possible. This year Zo and his team expect to travel with 12-15 athletes and to visit at least 6 schools before returning home to Tennessee.
This fundraiser is to help cover the cost of travel and hotels for the 2018 Summer football camp trip. Zo and his team always make every effort to ensure their trips are as cost effective and as efficient as possible. This year Zo and his team expect to travel with 12-15 athletes and to visit at least 6 schools before returning home to Tennessee. 100% of the funds got toward the athletes and athletes only.
Would you please help Zo and his team help kids pursue their dreams of attending college?
Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated! By Contributing, you will gain the satisfaction and joy of knowing you helped make a difference for 15 young men in pursuit of their higher educational goals. Rest assured that 100% of the donations received by Zo and his team will be used solely for the athletes in support of this training trip.
Our goal of getting these young men college scholarships is attainable!
About Zo & Elite Recruit 300: Lorenzo (Zo) Maxwell-Spikes was born into an athletically gifted family – a family that is also blessed with exceptional abilities to overcome adversity.
(Above from L-R: Former NFL DB Keiwan Ratliff, Zo Maxwell-Spikes, NFL WR Coach Charlie Collins)
Zo’s cousin, Wes Chandler, was a legendary Wide Receiver for the University of Florida Gators in 1970s. Wes persisted through difficult on-field circumstances and achieved great things during an era when it was nearly impossible for any Gator offensive player to excel on the field. After UF, Chandler played 10 seasons in the NFL and was named to the Pro Bowl 4 times. Following his retirement, Chandler was selected for both the San Diego Chargers and the prestigious College Football Halls of Fame.
(Pictured above from L-R: Wes Chandler, Zo Maxwell-Spikes, former NFL WR + NFL WRs Coach Charlie Collins)
Another cousin, Vernon Maxwell, also attended the University of Florida as a standout basketball star and 4-year starter at Shooting Guard. Vernon lead the Gator Men’s Basketball Team to their first ever NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearance, and he set several school and Southeastern Conference (SEC) records in route to a long and storied career in the NBA. Vernon became an NBA All-Star and two-time NBA Champion with the Houston Rockets.
Zo’s nephew, Craig James – a former teammate and lifelong friend of Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow – accepted a scholarship to play football for Louisville before transferring to finish his college football career at Northern Iowa following a Louisville coaching change. Craig used that adversity as an opportunity to learn and overcome. As a result, he is now the head coach of the Jacksonville (FL) semi-pro football team the Duval Raiders.
Like many in his family, Zo attended UF where he was a 2-year letterman for the Gator Football Team during the mid-late 1980s. But, Zo suffered several career-ending injuries while playing college football. Those injuries ultimately prevented Zo from achieving his dream of playing in the NFL. However, he used his College Football opportunity to Obtain an education and to gain a college degree from a top-notch institution.
Those injury setbacks galvanized Zo’s mental toughness and persistence in the face of life's challenges. He needed every bit of that strength and resilience to overcome his toughest opponent – cancer.
In 2003, following an initial diagnosis of Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, doctors informed Zo his cancer was terminal and told him he likely had only a few days to live. But Zo fought back, enduring many months of complex medical treatments.
Now 15 years later and still in cancer remission, Zo is a living example of resilience. he has dedicated his life to helping young men and women obtain educational opportunities through his Elite Recruit 300 training program.
Zo is passionate about the transformative impact a college degree. Despite lingering effects from the chemotherapy and other treatments, Zo works tirelessly throughout the year training deserving athletes in the Nashville (TN) area. Zo trains his young athletes not only the elite skills they need to compete for the best college offers, but also equipping them with core values of respect for their families, for education and for themselves they might otherwise never have learned. Most importantly, Zo coaches his athletes to view life’s setbacks as challenges to be overcome. He trains kids to seek to rise beyond the setbacks and to refuse to accept defeat, using Zo’s own amazing life story for the play book.
Thank you in advance for your support Zo and his team and of these deserving student athletes.
Every year Lorenzo (Zo) Maxwell-Spikes and his Elite Recruit 300 team take a group of Young athletes on a 10-day road trip across the southern United States. This trip offers most of Zo’s trainees their only opportunity to showcase their skills to college football coaches on college campuses. These Summer football camps have become almost mandatory for rising high school juniors and seniors seeking to further their education while playing college football at Division1 Schools.
In the last ten years, Zo and his team have helped 46 kids sign scholarship offers to attend such prestigious institutions as Austin Peay, Cornell, the US Naval Academy, the University of Colorado, the Universities of Florida and Tennessee, Virginia Tech University, Vanderbilt, Auburn, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida, Clemson, Ohio State, Western Kentucky University, Southern Miss, Texas Tech, Idaho, Nebraska, Rhodes College, Lake Forest College, Tennessee Tech, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, University of Tennessee Martin, Louisville, West Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky and many other excellent schools.
Last year’s Summer Football Camp trip resulted in 100% Collegiate Admission for all 12 camp attendees with 11 currently playing college football but that trip would not have been possible without the financial contributions of generous GoFundMe donors like you! This fundraiser is to help cover the cost of travel and hotels for the 2018 Summer football camp trip. Zo and his team always make every effort to ensure their trips are as cost effective and as efficient as possible. This year Zo and his team expect to travel with 12-15 athletes and to visit at least 6 schools before returning home to Tennessee.
This fundraiser is to help cover the cost of travel and hotels for the 2018 Summer football camp trip. Zo and his team always make every effort to ensure their trips are as cost effective and as efficient as possible. This year Zo and his team expect to travel with 12-15 athletes and to visit at least 6 schools before returning home to Tennessee. 100% of the funds got toward the athletes and athletes only.
Would you please help Zo and his team help kids pursue their dreams of attending college?
Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated! By Contributing, you will gain the satisfaction and joy of knowing you helped make a difference for 15 young men in pursuit of their higher educational goals. Rest assured that 100% of the donations received by Zo and his team will be used solely for the athletes in support of this training trip.
Our goal of getting these young men college scholarships is attainable!
About Zo & Elite Recruit 300: Lorenzo (Zo) Maxwell-Spikes was born into an athletically gifted family – a family that is also blessed with exceptional abilities to overcome adversity.
(Above from L-R: Former NFL DB Keiwan Ratliff, Zo Maxwell-Spikes, NFL WR Coach Charlie Collins)Zo’s cousin, Wes Chandler, was a legendary Wide Receiver for the University of Florida Gators in 1970s. Wes persisted through difficult on-field circumstances and achieved great things during an era when it was nearly impossible for any Gator offensive player to excel on the field. After UF, Chandler played 10 seasons in the NFL and was named to the Pro Bowl 4 times. Following his retirement, Chandler was selected for both the San Diego Chargers and the prestigious College Football Halls of Fame.
(Pictured above from L-R: Wes Chandler, Zo Maxwell-Spikes, former NFL WR + NFL WRs Coach Charlie Collins)Another cousin, Vernon Maxwell, also attended the University of Florida as a standout basketball star and 4-year starter at Shooting Guard. Vernon lead the Gator Men’s Basketball Team to their first ever NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearance, and he set several school and Southeastern Conference (SEC) records in route to a long and storied career in the NBA. Vernon became an NBA All-Star and two-time NBA Champion with the Houston Rockets.
Zo’s nephew, Craig James – a former teammate and lifelong friend of Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow – accepted a scholarship to play football for Louisville before transferring to finish his college football career at Northern Iowa following a Louisville coaching change. Craig used that adversity as an opportunity to learn and overcome. As a result, he is now the head coach of the Jacksonville (FL) semi-pro football team the Duval Raiders.
Like many in his family, Zo attended UF where he was a 2-year letterman for the Gator Football Team during the mid-late 1980s. But, Zo suffered several career-ending injuries while playing college football. Those injuries ultimately prevented Zo from achieving his dream of playing in the NFL. However, he used his College Football opportunity to Obtain an education and to gain a college degree from a top-notch institution.
Those injury setbacks galvanized Zo’s mental toughness and persistence in the face of life's challenges. He needed every bit of that strength and resilience to overcome his toughest opponent – cancer.
In 2003, following an initial diagnosis of Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, doctors informed Zo his cancer was terminal and told him he likely had only a few days to live. But Zo fought back, enduring many months of complex medical treatments.
Now 15 years later and still in cancer remission, Zo is a living example of resilience. he has dedicated his life to helping young men and women obtain educational opportunities through his Elite Recruit 300 training program.
Zo is passionate about the transformative impact a college degree. Despite lingering effects from the chemotherapy and other treatments, Zo works tirelessly throughout the year training deserving athletes in the Nashville (TN) area. Zo trains his young athletes not only the elite skills they need to compete for the best college offers, but also equipping them with core values of respect for their families, for education and for themselves they might otherwise never have learned. Most importantly, Zo coaches his athletes to view life’s setbacks as challenges to be overcome. He trains kids to seek to rise beyond the setbacks and to refuse to accept defeat, using Zo’s own amazing life story for the play book.
Thank you in advance for your support Zo and his team and of these deserving student athletes.
Co-organizers (6)
Zo Maxwell-Spikes
Organizer
Christiana, TN
Margaret Reagan
Beneficiary
Michael Kevin Pulley
Co-organizer
Amy Rubin
Co-organizer
Larence Helm
Co-organizer
Mark Blackburn
Co-organizer