Ex-NFL star Donald Driver becomes chief motivation officer to help empower girls to stay in sports

Donald Driver was a four-time Pro Bowler with the Green Bay Packers during his 14-year career.

He built a lasting bequest connected the field, and helium is looking to turn it disconnected the tract arsenic the archetypal main information serviceman for SURGE by BSN Sports. He volition assistance pb a programme dedicated to empowering girls to enactment successful sports arsenic the institution provides tools for coaches to assistance pistillate athletes.

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Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver (Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports)

"We truly privation to bring consciousness and spot to women successful sports because, close now, we each cognize that 72% of coaches successful younker sports are males. There’s not a batch of females that bash this," Driver said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital. "What we privation to bash is say, however bash we bring consciousness but past besides springiness coaches the tools that they request to beryllium palmy successful coaching young women successful sports."

Driver explained that his children are antithetic successful the mode they request to beryllium coached and decently motivated.

He said helium tin outcry astatine his lad astir the things helium does, who tin determination connected from it, but his girl is different.

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"I person to spell into much of that heart-to-heart speech with them, like, ‘Hey, let’s enactment unneurotic to code the issue. I recognize this indispensable beryllium a frustrating situation.’ I truly person to speech to them antithetic ... than I speech to my son.

"With this program, we truly privation to conscionable proceed to purpose to empower women to play sports and ne'er stop."

Driver was named the main information serviceman past week.

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He helped the Packers to a Super Bowl rubric successful 2010. He had 743 catches for 10,137 yards and 61 touchdowns during his career.

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