Winning with a mission: Local youth team wins national championship, teaching life lessons along the way Youth football team uses sport as therapy By Brandon Hamilton | December 29, 2020 at 7:32 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 7:32 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - With crime knocking in their neighborhood and a changing school schedule due to the pandemic, it would be easy to give up. Instead, the NC Giants 10-and-under football team, known as the Monstars, used the field to not only teach life lessons but win a national championship. “It made me feel great because it was my first time going to Florida,” said Bryant White.