Now a high school freshman, Cody makes the varsity football team and struggles with whether to identify himself as a Christian at school and on the playing field.
During his freshman year of high school, Cody learns lessons about leadership and teamwork while playing football and basketball and while coping with his widower father's remarriage.
High school freshman Cody Martin relies on his Christian faith to help him decide what sport to play during the spring season and, more important, to give him the courage to confront a friend who may be taking performance-enhancing drugs.
During the summer before his sophomore year in high school, Cody competes in a statewide multisport challenge, relying on his Christian faith to guide him both on and off the playing field.