Black's Athletic Club
Located in Bethesda Maryland
Helped build this facility in the fall of 2020
Interned at the facility fall of 2022
Assisted the head performance coach summer of 2023, 2024
This is a small private training facility focused towards specialized development in athletes and general population clients
Sports trained: Field Hockey, Diving, Swimming, Olympic Weightlifting, Football, Baseball, Lacrosse, Wushu, Figure Skating, Cycling, Basketball, Soccer, General Population Clients
Challenges and Obstacles Navigated
A big challenge to learn was training/ weight room management. Being limited to a small training area with limited amount of equipment, while coaching, at times a couple handful of clients at once, took some time to learn. Juggling clients on separate, individualized programs at once called for audibles and pivots to allow things to flow better.
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Homefield KC Sports Performance Center
Located in Olathe Kansas and Kansas City Kansas
Interned and was an assistant athletic performance coach here in the fall of 2023 and fall of 2024
Trained over a thousand middle school to high school age athletes
Sports Trained: Indoor Volleyball, Baseball, Softball, Basketball
Challenges and Obstacles Navigated
Being a bigger facility, the amount of athletes training each day, that I had the opportunity to coach, was far more than I ever thought. Consistently rotating through workouts hour after hour, with decent sized groups, presented a chance to talk and demonstrate workouts more efficiently and effectively with the time given. Understanding what is the most efficient way to coach a group of 27 athletes, in a limited amount of space, was another challenge to navigate through. The simpler things are, the better they will be, in those situations.
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Tidal Fitness LLC
Tidal Fitness
My own fitness / athletic performance business partnered with Tidal Beach Volleyball
Offering athletic performance training for the athletes signed up with Tidal beach volleyball along with additional athletic performance training for all sports plus general fitness training clients.
I started this coaching business / experience last summer, 2024, with the goal in mind to offer performance training for beach volleyball players along with growing my own personal coaching brand
Have worked with around 30 middle school - high school age female beach volleyball players and a handful of individual adult clients
Challenges and Obstacles Navigated
Being a coach on my own and learning how to run things with no over arching assistance was a big step, but necessary. Also the very minimal equipment and space given provided a challenge to get creative and focus on the things I could accomplish.