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MISSION
Our purpose is to maximize potential and enhance performance. We will create a professional environment which drives our commitment to excellence, discipline, attitude, effort, and toughness while improving our student-athletes’ physical and psychological capacities.
Philosophy
Shaker Heights’ Sports Performance Program is designed to aid student-athletes in their athletic and academic development process. The program is designed to build and develop their body’s, challenge their minds, and enhance their athletic pursuits. This holistic approach will include high intensity strength and power training, speed and agility development, increased mental fortitude as well as enhanced decision making from a physiological, nutritional and recovery standpoint. This program is also designed to help young men and women grow into young adults as it teaches discipline, responsibility, strong team relationships, determination, sacrifice, dedication, and work ethic. This is an ever growing and evolving process throughout each student’s four-year term within the Sports Performance Program.
Shaker’s Sports Performance program is ultimately an additional platform for learning. Through training, athletes will learn how to best prepare their bodies both inside and outside of the Raider Athletic Center for the demands they will meet. The coach will be tasked with educating each individual with the tools that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives in order to maintain a happy, healthy lifestyle.
About The Coach
Coach Schlesinger is in his fourth year at Shaker Heights after working with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the previous seven years. Coach Schlesinger has the experience, education and certifications valuable to a high school program. Prior to coaching in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization Coach Schlesinger served as a Graduate Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. While with the Dukes, Schlesinger was the primary strength coach for men's and women's soccer, men's and women's tennis, lacrosse, rowing, and volleyball programs. He also assisted with Football as well as men's and women's basketball.
Coach Schlesinger found his way to Duquesne by way of The University of Southern California where he served as a volunteer assistant strength coach working with the men's and women's basketball programs as well as helping out with the Trojans football program.
Prior to coaching at Southern California, coach Schlesinger interned at the University of Toledo with the Olympic sports teams. Coach Schlesinger is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Registered Strength & Conditioning Coach (RSCC), ISAK Level 1 Certified as well as CPR/AED certified.
Coach Schlesinger is a native of Broadview Heights, Ohio, graduating from Brecksville-Broadview Heights in 2007. He is a 2011 graduate of the University of Toledo where he holds a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science, as well as a 2014 graduate of Duquesne University with a Masters of Science in Sports Leadership. Coach Schlesinger currently resides in Broadview Heights with his wife and children.
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