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The influence we as individuals can have on one another is powerful.  The significant role one individual can play in the life of another human being can be positive, leading to change, improvement and progress.  The impact we have on people can also be negative; leading to destruction, despair and defeat.  There are moments the impact can be felt immediately, and other times the impression isn’t fully realized until years later.

 

Niccolo Machiavelli said these words: “A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.  His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.”  John Maxwell put it another way; Leadership is influence.

 

Great leadership is about being a great example, about humility.  Leadership is about influence.

 

Influence is defined as the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.

 

The Latin root word for influence is “flu”, which means, “flow.”  The English word “fluid” also finds its origin in the same Latin root word, defined as a state of matter, which, if not contained, “flows.” Influence represents the wonderful opportunity every human being has to “flow into, in, on, and upon” another human being directly, indirectly. 

 

The NeXT Basketball Foundation Awards are about how far reaching an individual’s influence can be upon another human being.

 

NeXT Awards

Jamie Charlton Leadership Award

 

Tracy Austin Heisman Award

 

Chuck Hill Community Service  Award

 

Dylan Kline Courage Award

Jamie Charlton Leadership Award

2017

Mason Onate

Vitaly DiBlasi

Mac Smith

Eli McMahon

2018

Daniel Gies

2019

Trent Tolford

2020

Sean Marks

2021

Brain Agler

2022

Tracy Austin Heisman Award

2017

Steffan Sommers 

2018

Jason Inbody

2019

Aiden Eberhardt

2020

Nikhil Kasam

2021

Sebastian Swary

2022

Chuck Hill Jr. Community Service Award

2018

Matthew Dittrick

2019

Reid Apke

Lachlan Macdonald

2020

Roy Hall

2021

Antonio Smith

2022

Dylan Kline Courage Award

2020

Dylan Kline

2021

Troy Scowden

2022