Beyond the Game Team Page Highlights Coaches and Mentors
The nonprofit’s roster includes camp directors, speakers and long-time football coach Thomas Gunn, alongside a mission focused on education and youth development.
Beyond The Game’s public team page lays out a broad roster of leaders, camp directors, speakers and mentors behind the youth nonprofit.
According to Beyond The Game’s Meet the Team page, the organization is a 501©(3) non-profit founded in February 2016. Its mission statement says it is about building youth opportunities through helping educational growth and maintaining excellence, and the organization describes itself as helping kids understand that sports can be a platform to higher education and reaching their potential as adults.
The page lists Devin Jordan as president and Elijah Desmond as vice president. Brandi Jordan is named as Girls With Pearls & Guys With Ties coordinator, while Ashton Knappenberger is listed under human resources and administration and Matthew Brady as content creator.
Melvin Weatherspoon is listed as FNL Camp Director / Leader – Guys With Ties, Korry Lee as FNL Camp Director, and Thomas Gunn as FNL Camp Director. Gunn’s bio says he has 15+ years of experience coaching youth, high school and college football, and quotes him describing coaching as a way to build character, discipline and excitement for what comes after the final whistle.
The page also names several other staff and mentors tied to its programs: Neeko Longshore as Leader – Guys With Ties, Jamal Luke as a motivational speaker for Guys With Ties, John Taylor as a motivational speaker for Mental Manual, Antonette Lackey as Leader – Girls With Pearls, Samuel Rodriguez in marketing and sponsor and donor relations plus Guys With Ties mentor, Rohan Patel as Guys With Ties coordinator, Reva Franklin as a Girls With Pearls mentor since 2025, Ava Dean as a Girls With Pearls mentor since 2022, and Jessie Scott as a Guys With Ties mentor. Weatherspoon’s bio on the page sums up the group’s tone with the line, “Changing Boys to Men one pass, one catch, one kid at a time!”
