Hilliard Gates

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

Peer pressure; popularity; to party or not to party. Every high school kid faces it, but Ben and Kim wanted their classmates to know a life centered in Jesus Christ was where the real "highs" in life are experienced.