Everybody has an opinion on MLB players who used performance enhancing drugs during the steroid era. Imagine playing in AAA and your manager looks at you and says if you would start taking steroids, you would be in the majo...
In this episode, I sit down with Butch Chaffin who is the Cookeville (TN) High School head baseball. We go inside a highly successful program lead by a coach who believes culture is everything. Coach Chaffin has spent more ...
In this episode - Casey Dill who is currently the Manager of the Palm Springs Power and Director of Baseball Operations for the Palm Springs Collegiate League. He has worked as a Field Manager in professional and summer colle...
In this episode, Matt Scarfo (Endurance Athlete, Ultra-Runner, Optimist, Potentialist and Infinite Thinker) breaks down the keys to optimal performance. Focus on the present Don't be afraid to set the bar high Breathing techn...
Aaron Conrad - Creator & Founder of My Unscripted Media / Host of The Unscripted Podcast, 270 Unscripted and Corner Three Podcast joins the Athlete 1 Podcast to discuss a parents perspective on sports. Aaron has raised three ...
Why is playing baseball with intensity and passion so important? Bloom Carroll High School (OH) Head Baseball Coach Jason Vest breaks down why his teams are consistently successful at a game that is filled with failure. This ...
Centennial High School (TX) Head baseball Coach Art Senato is known for turning programs around. He shares secrets to his success in the baseball crazy state of Texas. How being injured lead to a 26 year coaching career Why ...
Grace Dafoe of the Canadian National Skeleton team spent 15 years as a figure skater before making the move to skeleton racing. In just three short years, Grace won her first race on her home track (North America's Cup). In...
In this episode, I take a look back at the past 35 shows of season 1. The guests that were interviewed share great stories, provided valuable insight on what made them successful or how they handled failure and the lessons …
The University of Cincinnati football team has nothing to lose going into the College Football Playoffs. They will the first non Power 5 school to participate in the playoffs. Cayson Pfeiffer is the starting long snapper fo...
During the winter month's, baseball players migrate to indoor athletic facilities to find ways to improve as a baseball player. Pitchers are in search of ways to throw harder, develop a better off-speed pitch and improve the...
The Game - two words that, to most, are just words. To mean everything to two of the most loyal football fan bases in America. Those two fan bases are The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Former …
Paul Mainieri was born to be a college baseball coach. He grew up in the dugout watching his dad (Demie) and his hall of fame career at Miami Dade Jr College. They are the only father- son combo in the …
Jerry Snodgrass has been a servant leader his whole career. It started as an athlete and throughout his extraordinary professional career as a teacher, coach, athletic director and as the Executive Director of the Ohio High ...
Ohio Hall of Fame Head Baseball Coach Tom Held joins the Athlete 1 Podcast and shares his approach to success. He believes every high school in the country has a player that can throw 90 mph. Defiance, Ohio is a …
Despite being a gifted athlete, Drew Dosch understood the decisions he would make throughout his baseball career would be crucial to to his success. Those decisions lead to all-state awards, D1 scholarship, being drafted in...
The senior writer at Sports Illustrated Chris Ballard shares the incredible true David and Goliath story about the small town of Macon, Illinois in 1971, a hippie high school baseball coach, hometown heroes and an inspiration...
The Korean War and arm trouble ended Lou Brunswick's dream of playing baseball. He turned to coaching baseball. His story of a 35 year hall of fame coaching career, state championships and sons who followed in his footsteps...
After growing up on a farm in central Ohio, Tim Saunders decided to do the opposite of what his friends did after high school. Most chose good paying jobs, while he went to college in pursuit of his dream. Forty …
After playing and coaching at D3 baseball powerhouse Marietta College, Mike Deegan was named the head coach at Denison University. Coach Deegan takes you inside the lessons he learned through playing sports. His people first...
As a 3 sport standout at Lima Shawnee High School (OH), Brad Komminsk was a D1 recruit in football and baseball. He turned down U of Michigan football and signed as the 4th overall pick in the 1979 Major League …
Two lifelong friends (Mike Yinger - Buckeye Valley High School Athletic Director/CDBCA Hall of Fame Baseball Coach and Brad Schneider - HR Consultant, Business Coach and School Board Member at Big Walnut High School) join the...
Today, I sit down with two Ohio high school head coaches Chris Huesman and Don Schone. Combined, they have over 50 years in the dugout. We discuss the first full season after COVID-19, the state of travel baseball and what …
Bluffton University Head Baseball Coach James Grandey has experienced the highs and lows of college athletics as a player and a coach. Check out how he continues to build the Beaver baseball program after dealing with a trag...