Coach Tee's Corner

  As a sports performance specialist, I have covered a lot of sports that needed help with speed. In 2008, I had a hockey player come to me, it raised my eyebrow.  He was only 11 years old, tall and lanky.  The main thing his dad wanted was to work on his skate speed.  This was the first hockey player I ever had to train so obviously I wanted to do a great job.  I knew I had to work on his balance, and his strength, but how would I really make an impact on his speed?  And then it hit me, SPRINTING! The Art of Sprinting Many wouldn't think that land sprinting can help with skate speed, but I am here to tell you that it can.  Sprinting takes three things:  the ability to produce force, absorb force, and then immediately reproduce force.  Skating is a similar movement, and to increase speed you will definitely need those three things.  The second thing I noticed was the muscles involved.  The hip flexors, glutes, hamstrings, quads, and...

Lacrosse is spreading like wildfire!  Over the last 10 years, I have seen lacrosse grow as fast as my 10-year-old.  One minute I had two lacrosse players, then in the blink of an eye I was training 40 players, 6 teams in 4 different states.  Wow!  As I have grown to love this sport, I have also watched these high school players put their heart and soul into it week in and week out, in hopes of announcing they are signing a letter of intent to a Divison I program.  But when the emails, calls, or offers, don't come in, what could have gone wrong?  I mean as a parent, you've spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on equipment, club team dues, gas, hotels, and training, in hopes your lacrosse player gets into college.  Where's the return on investment?   For the lacrosse athletes, it's heartbreaking to love something (lacrosse) so much, that it seems to not love you back.  So what's the problem?  I am going to explore what I believ...