BGGA Admissions Guide 2019 | Page 54

LEADERSHIP + CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT As part of our mission, BGGA has developed a full nine-month student development curriculum to educate and encourage students to change, evolve, grow and be a better version of themselves. Building character takes effort and artistry, and the humility and grace to allow yourself to be molded and shaped by life circumstances and your own limitations and weaknesses. If, at the end of their stay at BGGA, students are more humble than proud, more empathetic than self-serving, and more grateful than expectant, then they will have started their journey on the road to character. Building character takes a lifetime, but a fulfilled life is created, not given to us, and we craft it by making good decisions and building good habits over time that will serve us well for the rest of our lives. • We are exceptionally proud of our Peer Group, who share the common experience of making sacrifices in leaving home, often having the courage to study in a foreign country, in a foreign language, and having the ambition for greatness as a professional golfer or at least an outstanding college golf experience. • The student influences on each other is amazing, and we manage this with light touch. • Senior students are elected as role model Ambassadors and participate in Leadership programs. • All students participate in weekly Character sessions based on the college athlete Habitude program. 54