Hometown Victory, Keanon Lowe
Hometown Victory, Keanon Lowe
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Hometown Victory
A Coach's Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home

Author: Keanon Lowe, Justin Spizman

Narrator: Landon Woodson

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2022


Synopsis

The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak.

Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs.

In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way.

But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love?

With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon’s journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.

About Keanon Lowe

Keanon Lowe is football coach and former D1 football player for the Oregon Ducks. He gained widespread media attention in May of 2019 after disarming an active school shooter and embracing him until the police arrived. After playing as a wide receiver for half a decade, Lowe went to work in Philadelphia as an analyst for the Philadelphia Eagles and then an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers. He was the head coach for both football and track and field at Parkrose High School.

About Justin Spizman

Justin Spizman is an award-winning and bestselling author, ghostwriter, and editor. He has worked on We Rise with Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Taking Your Team to the Top with Ted Sundquist, and is the coauthor of Don’t Give Up . . . Don’t Ever Give Up: The Inspiration of Jimmy V. Justin currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Jaime, their two beautiful daughters Dani and Bella, and their rambunctious dog, Bodhi.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christina on October 08, 2022

I really enjoyed this story from a coach’s perspective! He’s had a unique life going from college football to NFL coaching staff. Yet when a close friend dies it brings him home and he ends up coaching at a rundown high school. There are incredible odds to overcome and he has to start from scratch t......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on May 11, 2022

I wasn’t sure what I was getting into with this audiobook, but as a fan of the blindside and other motivational stories, I thought I’d give this a chance. I’m glad I did. While a lot of it is football stories and plays, which I didn’t totally understand 😂, most of it was relating the discipline and......more

Goodreads review by Edwin on April 07, 2022

HOMETOWN VICTORY, by Keanon Lowe & Justin Spizman, is the memoir of Keanon Lowe, a gifted college athlete who fell into coaching after graduation. He quickly found himself an assistant in the NFL, but found his calling in his mid-20's to become head coach at Parkrose High School. Parkrose had lost......more

Goodreads review by Deep on September 17, 2022

This was an inspiring story that I was not familiar with. I appreciated the author's dedication to helping the young men on his football team. I was very impressed with his choice to leave the NFL and come home to a needy school. SPOILER ALERT: I was not familiar with the potential school shooting t......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on October 14, 2022

This unexpectedly deep story is of a football player, turned young coach in the NFL, turned high school football coach. He took a job after a devastating loss of a good friend to drugs that had him recalibrating his purpose. It became coaching up a struggling football team at a local school that had......more