Some student athletes from every Jefferson County public, middle and high school recently spent a day learning how to be more successful at sports and life.

They took part in the first ever Boys Brotherhood Conference hosted by JK Athletics.

The goal to provide them the resources and information they need to navigate life as a student athlete in today's world.

Today is our first ever Boys Brotherhood Conference.

This is an opportunity for students to visit workshops, hear from a keynote, have the opportunity to see vendors from around the community so that we can pour into them about leadership and grooming, and just how to be a good athlete inside and outside the classroom.

I'm just looking for, advice.

Honestly, advice to go to the next level, advice that I can take back to my peers.

That goes to the next level.

Advice that I can take back to the younger ones to go to the next level.

And, you meet meeting new people, you know what I mean?

Exploring new connections.

We've got middle school and high school students that are grouped together by their grade level, and some of them are doing interview skills, they're doing grooming, they're doing building relationships.

How to build your brand.

Now that Nil is very important to students.

And so they're getting a little bit of everything.

I hope that they're learning some leadership from other males.

I think it's important for them to have role models.

So it's a great opportunity for them to learn from fraternities, from other male athletes that have already walked the journey and path that they're going to go.

I want to I want to make sure the middle schools, I know it's a lot of business, and I want to make sure they're not nervous or scared anything like coming into high school because, yeah, going into high school, it can be very scary.

Anything.

But just like the Lil Wayne song, let it all work out to see that.

And Doctor Brooks is doing so much to help the middle schoolers transition to high school and to high school.

It says it's in the colleges.

It's honestly just amazing.

As an athlete, it's all about teamwork, so you learn from each other.

So this is a great opportunity for schools to come together and have an opportunity to hear from golfers and track stars and basketball players and football players.

They usually don't mix like this, so it's a great opportunity for them to learn from each other and hear each other's goals.

What it means to me is of it helps me understand the bigger picture.

Like, now, oh, you're going to do this or I'm going to this and we put that together.

Oh, now we got a better solution and a bigger solution for that problem.

I just want to say that I honestly am grateful for this experience.

I'm grateful for this opportunity to stay that doctor.

Here's what he's doing with, all the medics.

Yeah.

I'm so grateful to be a part of the junior aid program being the first of many, and I just can't wait to see how far we can go with Jason.

Yes.