SportzVentures provides today’s athletes with premium advice from the top experts in their respected field. Topics include Nutrition, Strength & Conditioning, Recruiting, Injury Prevention and Rehab, Education and Drugs and Alcohol.
Steve Leo has been a trainer for the Parisi Speed School for the past 10 years and has worked with numerous division one and professional athletes. We are proud to have Steve on sportsgist.com to provide expert advice in the field of strength and conditioning, speed and agility training.
Dr. Kleiner is one of the foremost nutrition authorities on eating for strength, owner of High Performance Nutrition and author of Power Eating.
Dr. Kleiner is the nutrition consultant to The Seattle Sonics and the Miami Heat. Dr. Kleiner has consulted with many other food and beverage companies and has been the nutrition consultant to the Seattle Seahawks, the Cleveland Browns, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Repertory Project Dance Company, The Seattle Skating Club, Olympians and athletes at all levels of sport. She was a founding member of the Gatorade Sports Nutrition Speakers Network.
Before joining the American Athletic Institute, Dennis played in the NFL from 1999-2004 spending the majority of his time with the New York Jets and Houston Texans. Most recently Dennis was the Director of New York City Government Affairs for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. It is this combination of athletic experience at the highest levels and his substance abuse background that makes Dennis a perfect fit at the American Athletic Institute. Dennis graduated from Tulane University where he captained the 1998 team to an undefeated season and a final national ranking of 7th. Along with being Tulane’s Defensive MVP in 1998, Dennis was also the 1998 Liberty Bowl Scholar Athlete, 1998 Nokia Sugar Bowl Quarterback Club Outstanding Student Athlete and 1998-99 Tulane University Male Student Athlete of the Year. Dennis also is President and Founder of Two Town’s Charity, Inc., an organization dedicated to helping underprivileged children.
The longest-tenured trainer in franchise history, Mike Saunders marks his 27th campaign on the Knickerbockers bench in 2004-05. He joined the Knicks on July 24, 1978, succeeding the legendary Danny Whelan. Mike was recognized as one of the NBA's senior and most-respected trainers during he tenure with the Knicks.
Mike is also a registered Physical Therapist, Certified Athletic Trainer and a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the National Athletic Trainers Association and the American College of Sports Medicine. Over the years he had served as consultant to the Sports Medicine Department at Beth Israel Hospital North Division.
Mike now owns and runs SAUNDERS Physical Therapy & Sports Performance center located in Pomona, NY.
Founder and President of Recruiting Realities. When it comes to collegiate athletic recruiting, Jack Renkens has seen it all. From his days as a high school coach, administrator and teacher, through his time as a coach and athletic director at an award-winning NCAA Division II school, Jack has witnessed the recruiting game from all sides.
But it wasn't until his own daughter became a nationally recruited basketball player that he discovered not only how little most student-athletes and their families knew about the recruiting process, but also how many myths existed. “The point I stress to parents and student-athletes is the need to be proactively open-minded throughout the discovery process of finding the right school. My message is very simple - It’s A Game, Know The Rules!”
As a result, Jack founded Recruiting Realities, an organization dedicated to exploding the myths and presenting the realities of athletic recruiting to student-athletes, their families, coaches and school counselors.
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