Nick Lowery
Nick Lowery is a 2020 nominee for the NFL Hall of Fame.
He is the host of Kannaway Champions show.
Nick transcends any of the usual athlete stereotypes:
Hall of Fame athlete, Ivy League scholar, 3-time Presidential aide, Author, Poet, Teacher, Philanthropist, he has been featured in or on ABC’s 20/20, World News Tonight, Nightline with Ted Koppel, HBO, David Letterman twice, MSNBC, CNBC, Sports Illustrated, the Washington Post and the New York Times. A Harvard MPA, Nick worked for Reagan in Drug Abuse Policy, and for both President George HW Bush and President Bill Clinton in the White House Office of National Service launching the Points of Light Foundation and Americorps. Nick was inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame in 2009 as the most accurate kicker in NFL History, the Chiefs All-Time leading Scorer, with the most field goals in NFL History when he retired from the NFL. Nick founded Champions for the Homeless 15 years ago, supporting St. Vincent De Paul, comprising 53 super celebrity volunteer events that bring a human face to the homeless in Phoenix.
He is featured in the recent movies “Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy” and this year, “Beyond The Game,” about the financial illiteracy epidemic with professional and world-class athletes. Finally, Nick is the national spokesman and Sports Director for Kannaway Champions for one of the foremost CBD companies in the world, Kannaway. In 2019, Nick was winner of the Steinberg-DeNicola Super Bowl Humanitarian Award, the American Cancer Society’s Pillar of Excellence Award, the Arizona Interfaith Movements’ Lifetime Achievement Golden Rule Award, and is the 2019 CNBC Stock Draft Winner (beating the previous winner Sharktanks’s Kevin O’Leary by 40%!).
Nick’s lifetime is dedicated to inspiring everyone to tap into their finest God-given abilities, aligning their lives with a beautiful, focused and fulfilling purpose!
Nick was 5 times NFL Man of the Year for both the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets. He is the winner of the NFL Player Association’s foremost humanitarian award, the Justice Byron Whizzer White award, the US Jaycees’ “Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award” (won by Elvis and JFK), and the National Community Service Award from United Cerebral Palsy for his work with at risk and disabled youth.
Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Famer Nick Lowery knows about targets
He was the most accurate kicker in NFL History. He worked for three US Presidents in the White House during his NFL Career and was the first pro athlete with a Masters and Fellowship from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is the winner of the most prestigious humanitarian award an NFL player can receive, The Byron Whizzer White Award. A lot of speakers can talk a good game – Nick lived it for 18+ Hall of Fame calibre years in the NFL.
Credentials:
- Harvard MPA, Fellowship in Conflict Resolution, Leadership and Youth Development (Dartmouth BA)
- Legislative Aide for U.S. Senators John H Chafee (R.I.), the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Senator Tom Eagleton (Mo.), and Chairman of the U.S. House Rules Committee
- Helped Launch Americorps for Clinton (see Sports Illustrated Article) as part of his White House Office of National Service Staff
- Helped Launch the Points of Light Foundation for President HW Bush as part of his White House Office of National Service Staff
- Chairman of the National Fund for Excellence in American Education, and testified twice in CSPAN before US Senate on Problems facing Native Youth (you can see this on the Downloads page at www.headgamesradio.com)
- Chaired 1997 Kansas City America’s Promise Summit that was recognized as best America’s PromiseSummit by General Colin Powell
- Dropout Prevention Champion for State of Kansas 2009-2010
- Founded Native Vision – on Oprah as best program for Native Youth ((www.nativevision.org) now in its 20th year (just received a $ 1 million Grant for next 5 years)
- Founded Adult Role Models for Youth or”ARMY” with Kansas City Mayor Dick Berkley which after 6 years became Youthfriends, producing 5000 volunteers working with over 30,000 at-risk youth in Kansas City Region
- Highest NFL Players Award for Humanitarian work, the Byron Whizzer White Award
- US Jaycee’s Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award (won by JFK and Elvis)
- Finalist 4 times for NFL Man of the Year Award
- National United Cerebral Palsy Award for his Kick with Nick program for UCP which raised over $1 Million for UCPand was longest NFL Player program ever