VC United Director Eric Schulze sits down with Coach Adam and discusses the awesome new opportunity by joining with League One Volleyball.

League One Volleyball (LOVB, pronounced “love”) is a first-of-its-kind community re-imagining the future of volleyball. We are launching our professional league from the grassroots up – each pro team built from a foundation of ambitious junior volleyball clubs located across the country.

By joining the LOVB family, junior volleyball clubs around the country expand opportunities for their athletes, including:

Eric spent 17 years with Club Fusion Volleyball where he served as the General Manager as well as the Director of Coaching & Player Development at the club's Marengo location. He began his career in 1997 at Sky High Volleyball in Crystal Lake. With ten top 5 finishes in the 18 Open division, Schulze has coached over 180 Division I athletes in his career. He is currently in his 3rd season as the Varsity coach at Woodstock North High School and has stints at Johnsburg, Prairie Ridge (Crystal Lake), and Huntley. He lives in Wonder Lake, IL with his wife, Katie, and two daughters, Kylie (14) and Devynn (12) who are both aspiring volleyball players.

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EDUCATE. TRAIN. INSPIRE.

Listen to Coach Adam Lane talk with the founders of Bennie Baseball Joe & Robert Bennie about everything youth sports performance!

Joe & Robert are former pro baseball players who started Bennie Baseball in 2018 and it has been growing since.

The Bennie brothers do great things with each athlete that walks through their door. They believe in the athlete and bring out the best in them.

Whether you want to learn more about baseball or become better at softball, these guys are hands down the best in the Stateline.

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Check out Benniebaseball.com

Coach Samantha Flaherty is a Power Athlete Nutrition Coach and a Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist. Adam and Coach Sam discuss the importance of nutrition, rest, and recovery in competitive athletes and how they can maximize their performance on the court, field, and track.

Samantha's passion for strength and conditioning started at a young age. She grew up as a competitive gymnast and learned the values of hard work, dedication, and perseverance. These values have stuck with her throughout life, and guide how she train my clients. The physical and mental process of bettering yourself fascinates her. She love watching individuals push the envelope and achieve their goals.

Sam believes that nutrition and recovery are the base of any athletic pyramid and need to be prioritize!

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Mike Olim is the Founder and Director of Operations of Advanced Physical and Technical Training (AP2T). Mike originally started the company in 2008 and over the past 12 years has helped build it into one of the largest soccer specific athletic performance and technical training companies in the country.

Mike has been responsible for the training protocol for thousands of athletes through his tenure as owner and director of AP2T and many have gone on to play at the highest levels of the game.  This includes the World Cup, Olympics, NWSL, MLS, Serie A, and numerous other professional leagues.  Most recently Mike served as the Strength and Conditioning coach for the Rutgers University Women's Soccer team (NCAA Division I, Big 10 Conference).  During his tenure at Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights reached a top 15 NCAA National Ranking, finished 2nd in the Big 10 regular season, and earned a top 5 sectional seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Mike and the AP2T staff have been responsible for the club wide strength and conditioning programming for some of the best male and female soccer programs in the country.  These include PDA (Zarephath and Hibernian), Cedar Stars Academy Monmouth, and PSA.

An accomplished youth soccer coach, Olim worked alongside Coach Jeff Josell for the Metuchen Rover Juniors (boys) and SPF United (girls).  The Metuchen Rover Juniors won 2 State Cup, 1 Regional, and 1 National Championship and ranked as high as number 5 in the country.  SPF United reached similar heights, capturing 1 State Cup and ranked as high as number 8 in the country.  Additionally, Olim and Josell have coached both men’s and women’s summer teams that compete in the EDP Super League.

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Coach Zach Nagle teaches athletes of all ability levels how to run! Zack utilizes the TrueForm Runner treadmill technology to help athletes run efficiently and pain-free! Zack is also a Power Athlete Block One Coach and gets his athletes stronger as he gets them faster!

There is more to running than just a good pair of running shoes.

Check out TrueForm at https://trueformrunner.com/

Check out Zack on IG @zack_nagle

Owner and CFO Carl Case has been CrossFitting for a decade and specializes in strength and conditioning coaching for sports. "I am passionate about empowering athletes on field performance, coaching and playing rugby, learning more about business, and the strength and conditioning world. What I love most about coaching is helping an athlete or general population member take themselves to a place that they didn't know they could get to."

Growing up, Carl played just about every sport: Baseball, football, track, wrestling, basketball, and rugby. "I focused on rugby and football in high school," he says. "I continued to play rugby throughout and after college." Awards include: 3rd, 4th, and 5th national place finishes in high school rugby; Men’s D3 National Runner Up; Collegiate Michigan All-star Team; Collegiate Midwest All-star Team; Men’s Michigan All-star Team; and Men’s Midwest All-star Team.

His interest in CrossFit began in 2007 after one of the guys that he played rugby with told him about this gym he was going to,how hard and intense the workouts were, and that he should come give them a try. "I did and fell in love with it right away," he says. "I threw away the program I was doing from BodyBuilding.com and after about a year of being in it, I noticed that I was able to pick the movements well but also was able to help other members understand them. The owner of the gym asked me if I had any interest in coaching." In 2009, he got his Level 1. "When I finished college in 2010, I was trying to decided what path I wanted to take, and the answer was right in front of me. I joined Brandon in 2011, and that has been one of the best decisions of my life."

When he’s not in the gym, Carl enjoys coaching high school rugby, spending time with his fiancé and friends, and writing and traveling the country teaching seminars for Power Athlete. His favorite inspirational saying: "Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart, and mountains will move out of your way."

Coach Adam dives into what and why strength coaches should be doing to help athletes improve.

Everything works but nothing works forever.

No stranger to the Big Ten, the Waukegan, Illinois, native spent a year as the volunteer assistant coach at Michigan prior to NIU. While in Ann Arbor, Angelos helped the Wolverines to their sixth regional semifinal appearance and their highest NCAA tournament seed (No. 12) in program history.

John Welbourn is CEO of Power Athlete and Fuse Move, as well as the creator of the online training phenomena, Johnnie WOD. He is a 9 year veteran of the NFL and was a starter for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1999-2003, the Kansas City Chiefs from 2004-2007, and appeared in 3 NFC Championship games. In 2008, he played with the New England Patriots until an injury ended his season early with him retiring in 2009. Over the course of his career, John has started over 100 games and has 10 play-off appearances. After retiring from the NFL, John got involved with CrossFit and eventually developed the CrossFit Football program, but we’ll let him explain how that all went down. John has worked with the MLB, NFL, NHL, Olympic athletes as well as the Military, and he currently travels the world lecturing on performance and nutrition for Power Athlete.

Jayden and Rachel have endured a long recruiting process during 2020-21. But both have persevered and have landed fantastic schools that love and value them as athletes. Moral of the story - No recruiting process is the same and PATIENCE is truly a virtue!

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