John Paul Prosperi learns lessons well. When he was younger, playing for a Stafford Township Recreation club soccer team coached by Guy Lockwood, he heard one of Lockwood’s messages loud and clear and has been applying it ever since.

“We were playing in a turf tournament in Tuckahoe, and we were losing 4-0 at halftime,” recalled Prosperi, a day before graduating from Southern Regional High School last week.