"Navy head coach's playbook of principles" from the Mormon Times: Walk past the football coach’s office Monday around 4 a.m., and you
will find him alone, his back to the door, studying a book on his desk.
It’s in the quiet solitude of those predawn hours that Navy’s head man,
Ken Niumatalolo, becomes immersed in his playbook.
Not his football strategies, his scriptural playbook, the Book of Mormon.
“It’s his personal time. No one will bother him until
he turns back forward in his desk,” said Barbara Niumatalolo, the
coach’s wife. “If something touches him, he goes back to it during the
day. It’s usually something he needs to hear to prepare him for that
day.”
Daily scripture study is just one of many key
strategies in Niumatalolo’s personal playbook of principles. Devotion to
family, church service and living the gospel have helped the Mormon
coach endure the rigors and stress of the college coaching lifestyle
from Hawaii to Annapolis, Md., for almost two decades. Much of his
success can be traced to something he learned at an early age.
“For me, growing up as a member of the church, I
always knew as long as you are obedient, the Lord will bless you and
everything will work out,” Niumatalolo said. “Gospel principles are
universal.”
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