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After a long day at training camp ahead of a new season, the Arizona Stadium weight room is often empty after sunset.Well, almost empty. That’s when running backs coach Alonzo Carter is just getting started.“Get my peace of mind, cut my music on and go for a walk,” he said of his routine.Carter usually takes a five-mile walk a few times a week.He calls it “Five Alive.” He says the name comes from his friend and fellow football coach Otis Yelverton, who goes by ‘Coach O.
”Carter wanted to give high school kids the same opportunity to live out a dream. So he went back to his alma mater, McClymonds High School in Oakland, to start coaching football.Today, that drive makes him one of the Wildcats’ top recruiters.“I always ask: Give me the inner city ,” he said. “I wanna go change lives. I wanna touch people’s lives.”And Carter is motivating the players already on the team.“We wanted to challenge them and take them to the next level,” he said.
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