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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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Courtney DeBolt Slinko was an All-State and All-American volleyball player at Stevenson High School. She continued her volleyball career at Michigan State University, where she was a 4-year letter winner (1992-1995). In 1995, she received All-Big Ten and All American honors, as MSU advanced to the NCAA Final Four. A setter, she ranked 2nd in Spartans’ history with 3,773 assists and 176 service aces. In her senior year, she registered the school’s 2nd highest single-season assist total with 1,450. She served as Team Captain in 1994 and 1995 and received the Chester L. Brewer Leadership Award, given to 1 MSU athlete/year. Also, she was the Vice President of the Varsity “S” Club, comprised of MSU varsity letter winners, coached at Haslett High School and had her own segment of a local TV show called “Courtside with Courtney”.

Following her collegiate career, Courtney played professionally in the Netherlands in 1997. In 1998, she trained with the U.S National Volleyball Team in Colorado Springs, but an injury prevented her from playing in the 2000 Olympics. From there, she went on to be an Assistant Volleyball Coach at Marquette University (1999-2001), and then returned to the Chicago area in 2002 to play for the Chicago Thunder Team in the U.S. Professional Volleyball League, where she earned the Community Service Award and became the league’s spokesperson. Later that year, Courtney was the Color Commentator of the 2002 IHSA State Volleyball Tournament.

In May 2003, she played in the USA Adult Open Indoor Championships where her team became National Champions.

From 2003-2006, Courtney coached the Boys and Girls Volleyball Teams at Buffalo Grove H.S., where in 2006, the Boys’ Team finished 4th in the IHSA State Finals. From 2006-2009, she was the Girls’ Varsity Assistant Coach at Cary-Grove H.S., as the squad won the IHSA State Championship in 2009. In 2013, Courtney was inducted into the Lake County High Schools Sports Hall of Fame. She spent 2 years as a Head Coach at Michio Chicago Volleyball Academy from 2015-2017 where her 16 National Team finished 9th in the 16 Open Division of AAU Nationals before she accepted her position here at VC United. Courtney resides in Woodstock with her husband, Rich and their 2 children, Jade and Derek.