Life Beyond the Game Starts Here.
A school, sports & life planner built on the Thriving Athlete Framework™ — so your athlete trains their grades, their game, and their future, all in one place.
What's Inside....
Plan Your Week as a Family
Family Huddle System
26 weeks of family planning, goal setting & reflection. Agree on rewards with your family or coach and hold each other accountable.
Treat Injuries Like the Pros Do
Rehab Room
At-home athlete care, built by sports medicine experts — injury prevention and recovery routines, plus science-backed nutrition strategies used by elite athletes.
Reflect as a Scholar, Athlete & Innovator
Sports Diary
Weekly Scholar, Athlete & Innovator prompts to guide reflection — plus a safe space for your athlete's own thoughts on sports, school, and life.
Fuel Up With Real Food, No Fads
Game Day Eats
Fuel like a pro with meal and snack guides built by sports nutrition experts — quick, simple, and based on real food, not fads.
Track Every Test, Game & Goal
Monthly/Weekly Scheduling
Plan the next six weeks — tests, games, goal setting, mental health check-ins, and even talent & career exploration — with tools like the Gym Bag Checklist to keep your athlete game-ready.
Turn Game-Day Skills Into a Real Career Plan
Dream Lab
Explore a career using skills you're already building through sports — salary, role overview, and how to start now. Then put it into action with monthly worksheets — built on the Work-Based Learning model — that guide your athlete from passion to a real career roadmap.
Evidence-Based Theory
The Game Plan isn’t just another planner — it’s built on real research about how young people truly thrive.
Grounded in Positive Youth Development (Lerner), Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan), PERMA (Seligman), Purpose Development (Damon), Whole Child research, and Beyond the Ball’s independently validated Passion-Based Learning framework — The Thriving Athlete Framework™
Thriving Athlete Framework™
Built on the science of how young people truly flourish.
-
Scholar - Excel in the classroom, earn opportunities, build your future.
Show up for grades, homework, learning - and never stop reading. -
Athlete - Train with purpose, compete with heart, win for life.
Recover right, fuel right, sleep right, show up well. -
Innovator - Discover your passion, develop your gifts, design what's next.
Explore your talents, chase your interests, find your future career.
Empowering Sports Families around the world
Nominate a Triple-Threat Athlete Today
Who is a Triple-Threat ?
A Triple-Threat Athlete isn’t just great on the field — they’re showing up in every part of life. They’re the student-athlete who handles their grades like they handle game day, who takes care of their mind and body, and who’s already exploring who they want to become beyond the sport.
- Scholar. They show up in the classroom, not just the locker room.
- Athlete. They train with purpose and take recovery as seriously as practice.
- Innovator. They’re curious about what’s next — and already building toward it.
Triple-Threat Perks !
- Game Plan Merch — exclusive gear for Triple-Threat honorees
- Planner Highlight — featured inside an upcoming Game Plan planner
- Featured Video Interview — share their Scholar, Athlete, Innovator story
- Social Media Spotlight — recognized across The Game Plan’s channels
- Certified Triple-Threat & Medal of Honor — a digital certificate plus a physical medal to keep and display
- Triple-Threat Hall of Fame — a permanent spot in the online archive of past honorees
If your athlete is a Triple-Threat, nominate them today.
The Game Plan Experts got you covered
DR. SHAUN GARFF, MD
CEO & Founder, Sports Med Connect
Sports Medicine Physician with extensive clinical experience and coverage of professional, collegiate, high school, and recreational sports. Advanced training in the diagnosis, treatment, and injury prevention of athletes of all ages. Leading expertise in the virtual medical care industry.
JAKOBI DAVIS
CEO & Founder, Champion's Voice LLC
Jakobi built Champion’s Voice out of his own rebuild. He became a D1 four-year starter and two-time captain, then played in the MLB Draft League and independent pro ball while earning a Dean’s List civil engineering degree at Cornell. He was also chosen to give the engineering class graduation speech. The systems that pulled him out of a 2.7 GPA and a broken freshman year are now for student-athletes who need a real plan for recruiting, grades, training, and life after sport.
AMY GOODSON, MS, RD, CSSD, LD
Sports Dietitian | 20+ Years with Pro & Youth Athletes
Amy has worked with the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, FC Dallas, NBA G League, and thousands of middle and high school athletes. She’s passionate about teaching young athletes how to fuel their bodies for peak performance, faster recovery, and long-term success.
Who We Are
BUILT BY A SPORTS MOM, FOR SPORTS FAMILIES
Created by Erica Molett, CEO/Founder of Beyond the Ball, Inc.— a global nonprofit exposing youth to the math, science, and innovative careers beyond the game. Because sports parents deserve tools that actually work.
We inspire young people who don’t just dream of going pro, but who take the fun and health benefits of sports into adulthood and become the innovators who drive the future of sports itself.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Game Plan is built for middle and high school student-athletes, with content and prompts that grow with them as they take on more responsibility for their own schedule, goals, and choices.
Not at all. The Game Plan works for any student involved in sports — from rec league to varsity to travel teams. The Thriving Athlete Framework™ is about building scholar, athlete, and innovator habits, not about skill level.
The Family Huddle is a weekly check-in built into the planner — a simple way for your family (or coach) to set goals together, agree on rewards, and hold each other accountable. It only takes about an hour a week, but it’s where a lot of the planner’s value comes from. We recommend at least one parent or guardian stay involved.
Each Game Plan includes the Family Huddle System, Monthly/Weekly Scheduling, weekly Hype Reels (training and mindset videos), Dream Lab career worksheets, the Rehab Room, Game Day Eats, and the Sports Diary — all built around 26 weeks of planning.
Both. The Game Plan is a physical planner, but it’s paired with digital content — including weekly Hype Reels (Morning Mindset videos, skills & drills, study habits) and Dream Lab worksheets you access by QR code.
Both were developed with real sports medicine and sports nutrition experts, so the guidance your athlete is following is the same kind of care used at the elite level — not generic advice.
A Triple-Threat Athlete excels as a Scholar, Athlete, and Innovator — not just in their sport, but in the classroom and beyond it. You can nominate your athlete (or a teammate) through our Triple-Threat application.
Erica is a sports mom and the Founder/CEO of Beyond the Ball, Inc., a nonprofit that’s spent years helping young athletes see beyond the game. The Game Plan grew out of that same mission — giving sports families a tool that actually supports the whole athlete, not just their schedule.
You can purchase The Game Plan directly through this site. Click the “Buy Now” button in the menu.