Championship DNA: The Mars Brothers’ Winning Connection

WINFIELD, Kan. — From backyard football in Piedmont, Oklahoma, to a championship season at Southwestern College, sophomore linebacker Joshua Mars and his older brother, Joey, now his position coach, have built on a family foundation of toughness, competition and support. Before kickoff, Joshua Mars and his older brother, Joey, step away from their responsibilities as player and coach for a moment together near the tents. They share a prayer, a familiar routine in a season that has brought Southwestern College a championship and given the brothers another chapter in a football journey that began in their front yard in Piedmont,…