Coach Forward Podcast

Ben Sowders - Director of Strength & Conditioning for Louisville Football on How to Work With Underachieving Players, Teaching Players to Earn What They Want, Investing In Mental Performance, and More.


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Coach Forward is an interview-style podcast hosted by Jason Mejeur (Coach J), accomplished Coach, Mentor, and Founder/CEO at OWN IT.

Highlights from the episode:

[08:33]
Seeing A Decline In Competition
[11:02] Teaching Players to Earn What They Want
[16:27] How to Work With Underachieving Players
[19:51] Receiving Accountability From Players
[29:17] Investing In Mental Performance

Coach Sowders is the Director of Strength & Conditioning for Louisville Football.

He has spent the last 15 years in the field of strength & conditioning including stops along the way at University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, McNeese State and Gardner Webb.

Coach Sowders is passionate about relationships with his athletes and building a player-led culture.



About Jason Mejeur (Coach J)

Jason has 15+ years of experience coaching basketball at the college and high school level and has lived on the sidelines and in the locker rooms working to build teams and inspire athletes.

His mission is to build authentic relationships with his players so that he can impact them beyond the basketball court.

More recently, Jason is building the OWN IT System to help bring data-driven sleep and health coaching to student-athletes and their teams.

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Coach Forward PodcastBy Jason Mejeur