Pro Power helps area youth focus on positives
Nonprofit, Pro Power, aims to help at-risk youth profit through athletics and academic support
 By Jennifer Beekman | Staff Writer, Gazette
Joe Rankin is not yet 21 and already has lived two distinct lives. And he likes the more recent one, where he went from a star on and off the football field at Seneca Valley to an on-scholarship, defensive back at Morgan State University with NFL aspirations.
At the sixth annual Pro Power Football Camp last week at Northwood, he described his past, before organization founder Mark Smith changed it.
“He was always in my ear telling me what I can be, what I can do instead of what I couldn't do or what I'm not,” said Rankin, a 2009 Seneca alumnus. “One day I was just riding past the football field at Seneca Valley and the kids were out there playing and I was like, ‘That could be me.' ”
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