Beyond the game.
Into the future.
Basketball is the entry point. Holistic development is the mission.
Explore programsCareer Exploration Program
Pathways to Purpose
Explore. Grow. Achieve. Get rewarded.
Students explore their interests, strengthen professional skills, and connect their passions to future career goals through a guided program built around growth and follow-through.
Participants who complete the program activities can earn an Indiana Pacers game experience.
The scoreboard is only one measure.
Riggs HD uses sport to build trusted relationships—then turns that trust into guidance, exposure, and a plan for what comes next.
One relationship.
Multiple next moves.
Basketball Development
Skill work, competition, and accountability create a setting where young people can be seen, challenged, and supported.
02Pre-College Planning
Students and families get practical guidance around academic choices, college readiness, scholarships, and the decisions ahead.
03Career Exploration
Career conversations and workplace exposure help students connect interests, education, and real paths into professional life.
30+
Students and entrepreneurs helped so far.
This figure is carried forward from the current Riggs HD website. The reporting period is awaiting confirmation, so we present it honestly as a directional milestone—not a finished story.
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Experience made the method personal.
As a scholarship student-athlete, Terry “TJ” Riggs experienced both the possibility sport can create and the difficult identity transition that can follow injury. His work connects the court to education, mental wellbeing, and a future young people can name for themselves.
Read Coach Riggs’s story