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- have spent the first 12 years of my professional career working as a sports marketing, sales & partnerships professional at well-known companies, such as SiriusXM + Pandora, FanDuel, & Topps.

- earned a character in sports award in High School for always having a positive attitude and high level of determination. Played 4 years of varsity baseball, and slowly and tirelessly earned a spot on the varsity basketball team my senior year after not making the cut as a junior and leading the JV team to a championship appearance, resulting in an MVP award.

Watching film of myself always really helped me diagnose and correct my own weaknesses. Ideally, I'd be able to provide this service for athletes to show them exactly what I am seeing, in order to help them better understand and apply my feedback, in order to help them improve. I am also very adept at understanding the game of basketball and baseball, and imparting wisdom for what the best approaches to the game(s) might be based on different situations at hand (i.e. when it's smart to take a first pitch in a game, etc.).

There is no "typical training session" for me, because every athlete's needs are different. I try to keep an open mind, and to ask detailed questions to clients upfront in order to formulate and present the best and most well-fitting training session possible prior to implementing it. I will not conduct a training session without providing the athlete and their parents with a meticulous outline of what it will entail, so that they know exactly what they're paying for.

My JV high school basketball coach back in 2006 (my junior year of high school). We started the season with 15 players, but after a humiliating 1-4 start we were down to 7 players, with half the team quitting. The coach leaned on me and one of my friends as the senior members of the team to keep the remaining group closely knit to avoid having to fold the season entirely. During our first practice with just 7 players remaining he asked us to run laps around the court, and about a half hour into doing so, we were completely winded and confused as to what he was trying to do to us. Another half hour later we finally heard him blow his whistle, all 7 of us with hands on knees out of breath -- it felt like a scene out of the movie "Miracle" based on the 1980 olympics team. It was at this point when he said to us, "Good. Now your in shape. From this moment on, we are running a full court press defense for the entire game."

With only 7 players, we thought he was crazy, but we went along with it. Two months later, our record stood at 12-5, and I was in the best shape of my life. We entered the playoffs as a 2-seed in our division and squeaked our way to the finals against a vaunted, juggernaut of a program in Long Island Lutheran, which had clobbered us by a combined 72 points over the two regular season games in which we faced them.

We traveled an hour and a half to their home gym, and predictably trailed by 20 at the half. It was at this moment that a wave of confidence and fearlessness overtook me to deliver an impassioned speech about how we have nothing to lose, and I pointed across the court to show the rest of my teammates at how laid back the opponent was. The game was in-hand, and they were just gonna waltz their way to victory, it appeared.

In the second half, we stormed our way back into the game by leveraging our new signature full court press defense with a sense of ferocity never before seen. I personally went on an 11-0 run over a 2 minute stretch in the fourth quarter, which led the opposing coach to erupt with anger and to call a timeout with 3 minutes remaining in the game.

Nearly out of breath and energy, I stared up at the scoreboard and couldn't believe my eyes. We were only down by 2 points with 3 minutes to go.

Unfortunately, that timeout settled the opponent down, and led them to a quick 8-0 run, and ultimately a 10-point victory over us, but I've never been a part of an underdog sports story quite like this one. I dropped 24 points, a career high, in this finals matchup against a physically imposing and far more talented opposing team, and it instilled something in me for the rest of my life, which is the simple notion that, in sports, and in life - Determination Is More Important Than Talent.

First and foremost, I place an emphasis on safety first. Beyond that, I can guarantee that any athlete I work with will come away from their experience with a stronger sense of belief in themselves and their abilities than prior to working with me. I focus on the mental side of the game as I do the physical, and I try to demonstrate how intertwined those two components can be.

Teaching the fundamentals and mechanics of hitting a baseball is what I do best, but I am great at diagnosing areas for improvement in any baseball of basketball player's game, and communicating/demonstrating the steps that will be needed to make those improvements.