Izzo has turned Michigan State into a perennial basketball powerhouse. The Wolverines are an athletic powerhouse nationally. Thompson played at Washington State University, which was not considered a basketball powerhouse. Japan is a world-renowned powerhouse of animation. Kenya was once also a regional powerhouse in football. The song showed Smith's potential as a country music powerhouse. Ford saved Gucci from near bankruptcy and transformed it into a fashion powerhouse. Broad transformed Sun Life into the retirement savings powerhouse SunAmerica. Unsurprisingly, he received scholarship offers from nearly every perennial BCS powerhouse. Bevan was known for his heavy powerhouse drumming during this tour. He serves mainly as the powerhouse of the group. Korea is known as an e-sports powerhouse. He was the powerhouse of the band. These were statistics easily comparable to drivers who were running with the powerhouse teams. Australia is a powerhouse in water-based sports, such as swimming and surfing.