Who we are

The Game Gave You a Platform. What You Build With It Becomes Your Legacy.

Empowering Athletes Legacy is a faith-centered organization created to empower current athletes, former athletes, their families, and the generations coming behind them to recognize that their purpose extends far beyond the field, court, track, ring, or arena.

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See the work in motion.

The EA Legacy film brings the person, preparation, and purpose into focus.

EA Legacy filming and athlete engagement at practice

Who We Are

Eagles Practice V1

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The opening truth

Sports can create extraordinary opportunities.

But contracts expire. Careers end. The spotlight moves on.

Legacy does not have to.

We exist to help athletes transform their discipline, relationships, resources, experiences, and influence into lasting impact through financial education, ownership, entrepreneurship, investing, wellness, agriculture, mentorship, community development, and service. Our goal is not simply to prepare athletes for life after sports. We want to help athletes build lives that become bigger than sports.

Our Mission

Empower the Athlete. Educate the Family. Impact the Community. Shift the Generation.

Our mission is to equip athletes with the education, relationships, resources, and opportunities necessary to build lives of purpose, ownership, stewardship, wellness, and generational impact beyond competition.

We bring athletes together with experienced business leaders, investors, operators, educators, wellness professionals, community leaders, and mentors who can help turn access into education and education into action — then bring that knowledge back into our communities.

A builder ofbusinesses.assets.families.communities.opportunity.the next generation.

The ultimate goal is not simply helping an athlete become wealthy. It is helping an athlete become a builder.

Our Vision

Building a Future Where Athletes Become Architects of Generational Change.

We envision a national ecosystem where athletes use their influence to create opportunities that continue long after their final season. Our long-term vision includes developing Empowering Athletes Legacy Centers in communities throughout the Sun Belt and beyond — places where young people and families have access to mentorship, financial education, entrepreneurship, technology, agriculture, wellness, media, leadership development, and meaningful interaction with athletes who have walked paths they can identify with.

We want a child to walk through our doors because they admire an athlete — and leave understanding that they too can become an owner, investor, entrepreneur, farmer, creator, mentor, community leader, and builder.

The final whistle doesn't end your story.

It's where your legacy begins.

Empowering Athletes Legacy

One Love. One Community. One Legacy.

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The Four Pillars

Wealth. Wellness. Purpose. Legacy.

The four pillars of Empowering Athletes Legacy. Scroll through each to see how the journey flows from athlete to ownership to wellness to mentorship to community.

01 Wealth

Wealth

Cash Flow > Contracts

Build Ownership

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Our philosophy: CASH FLOW > CONTRACTS

Athletic careers can create extraordinary earning opportunities, but income alone does not create generational wealth.

We educate athletes and their families around financial literacy, entrepreneurship, investing, real estate, business ownership, land, responsible tax education, estate planning concepts, and long-term stewardship.

The contract can create the opportunity. Ownership can extend its impact for generations.

Wealth. Wellness. Purpose. Legacy.

Four pillars. One mission.

To empower athletes to turn the opportunities created by sports into a lifetime of ownership, purpose, service, and generational impact.

Legacy > Lifestyle

Enjoy the Lifestyle. Build the Legacy.

There is nothing wrong with enjoying the rewards that come from years of sacrifice. But lifestyle should never consume legacy. The cars change. The clothes change. The attention changes. The contract eventually ends.

What remains is what you owned, built, taught, invested, protected, and passed forward. We want athletes thinking beyond what they can buy today and toward what they can build for the next 100 years.

Cash Flow > Contracts

A contract can change a life. Ownership can change a trajectory.

Athletes are conditioned to negotiate their next contract. We want them equally prepared to build their next source of cash flow. Real estate. Businesses. Land. Agriculture. Equity. Intellectual property. Media. Investments. Entrepreneurship.

The goal is not to replace the contract. The goal is to use the contract as a bridge toward ownership.

Meet the Leadership

Called to build with care.

Founded by Antonio Cuevas and Patrick Huynh, Empowering Athletes Legacy is committed to protecting, educating, and walking alongside athletes and their families so their impact, ownership, and values outlive their playing careers.

Co-Founder // Athlete Relations, Community & Legacy Development

Antonio Cuevas

Co-Founder | Athlete Relations, Community & Legacy Development

Coming from Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, Antonio Cuevas brings a community-centered perspective to Empowering Athletes Legacy and a belief that an athlete's influence can become a powerful vehicle for generational change.

A former collegiate athlete himself, Antonio works at the intersection of professional sports, entrepreneurship, investing, media, technology, Indigenous communities, and community development. His role is centered around connecting athletes with the people, education, opportunities, and resources that can help them think beyond their playing careers and use their platforms to create ownership, strengthen families, mentor youth, and build lasting impact.

For Antonio, the mission is simple: help athletes recognize that who they become beyond the game can be even greater than who they were within it.

antonio@ealegacy.org

Co-Founder // Financial Education, Stewardship & Strategic Development

Patrick Huynh

Co-Founder | Financial Education, Stewardship & Strategic Development

Patrick Huynh brings more than 25 years of experience across financial markets, real estate, tax strategy, and private investing to the mission of Empowering Athletes Legacy.

With experience at Prudential Financial and Charles Schwab, Patrick brings the financial perspective necessary to help athletes better understand the world beyond earning a paycheck. His work with EAL focuses on expanding access to financial education, responsible stewardship, investing principles, ownership, long-term planning, and relationships with experienced professionals.

Patrick believes athletic success can create an extraordinary financial opportunity, but education and stewardship are what can turn that opportunity into a lasting legacy.

patrick@ealegacy.org

Governance

Mission before personal interest.

Empowering Athletes Legacy is governed with a commitment to stewardship, transparency, accountability, and service. Leadership is responsible for protecting the organization's mission and ensuring its resources are used to advance its charitable and faith-centered purposes.

Board Oversight

Independent oversight of organizational direction, finances, programs, and major decisions.

Financial Stewardship

Responsible budgeting, documentation, reporting, internal controls, and appropriate separation between charitable activities and affiliated commercial activities.

Ethical Leadership

Conflict of interest standards and decision making centered around the organization's mission.

Impact Accountability

Tracking how programs, donations, partnerships, events, and resources translate into measurable community impact.

View Our Governance & Transparency

What We Believe

Our beliefs.

We believe purpose is greater than popularity.

We believe legacy is greater than lifestyle.

We believe cash flow is greater than contracts.

We believe financial education should begin before the first major check arrives.

We believe athletes should understand ownership, not simply endorsements.

We believe health includes the mind, body and spirit.

We believe food, land and agriculture are important components of resilient communities.

We believe athletes can become some of the most influential mentors of the next generation.

We believe knowledge should be passed forward.

We believe wealth carries a responsibility to create opportunity for others.

We believe stronger individuals create stronger families, and stronger families create stronger communities.

And above everything

We believe the greatest statistic an athlete can leave behind is the number of lives they changed.

Empowering Athletes Legacy

Legacy > LifestyleCash Flow > Contracts