About
Us
The Stellar Athletes Difference
We are in the business of developing Champions. For Life.
Stellar Athletes was founded in 1998 with a cornerstone of helping youth. We feel that our kids are the future and they truly matter. Our sole purpose is to educate and empower high school student athletes as they prepare for collegiate athletics and the collegiate recruiting processes. We teach life skills, sportsmanship, and help develop integrity and a strong work ethic. Stellar Athletes has adopted services and practices that align with age-appropriate standards in both athletic development and sports specific training. To sum it up nicely, Stellar Athletes is a youth athletic and sports-specific development solution provider.
What makes Stellar Athletes different?
A focus on helping athletes become champions. For life.
• The Coach-Athlete Commitment is key.
• Programs designed for young athletes, not watered-down adult programs
• Methodology based on LTAD and the Kaizen Philosophy: It’s the drive to improve over time—not the drive to win—that enables the young athlete to be successful in all endeavors in their lives.
• Develop the holistic athlete: Teach young athletes how to run, jump and throw; develop all the supportive systems (neurological systems to sport specific technical elements) that will enable them to reach their athletic goals.
What does Stellar Athletes do?
Coach young athletes specific to their needs and not as miniature adults.
• Focus on teaching correct functional movements (bio-mechanics of running, jumping and throwing) and develop the support systems to help young athletes reach their goals.
• Master body weight before adding resistance or weight.
• Develop core strength before limb strength.
• Coach in a positive and uplifting way with a focus on building confidence.
• Develop the holistic athlete.
• Discourage early sports specialization.
• Athletes will run, jump, hop, skip, throw, catch, climb, crawl, push, roll, balance, etc on their path to becoming a Stellar Athlete.
• Being a trainer is a career and being a coach is a call—we focus on what the athlete can become.
As a Stellar Parent, here is what awaits your student athlete:
Coach young athletes specific to their needs and not as miniature adults.
• Kids learn to improve physically, emotionally, and mentally
• Learn courage
• Learn teamwork
• Learn to work hard
• To never quit
• Give your best
• Sportsmanship--Learn how to be a good sport, win or lose
• Learn discipline and concentration
• Learn to plan and execute
• How to be the best and reach your potential
• Build strong character
• To live a healthy lifestyle
• To be active
• To have massive amounts of fun!.
Involving children in sports helps them to become “self-directed, compassionate, cooperative citizens of integrity”. The development of character also develops “independence, responsibility, and accountability” which boosts self-esteem. Sports teach children not only to get better physically, but also emotionally and mentally.
--Janet Sundberg
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
--Plato
"The truly great advances of this generation will be made by those who can make outrageous connections, and only a mind which knows how to play can do that."
--Nagle Jackson
"The opposite of play is not work, it is depression."
--Brian Sutton-Smith
The evidence supporting sports participation for young people is overwhelming. It has the power to combat everything from racism to low self-image to the high-school drop-out rate."
--Sue Castle, Executive Producer of PBS Sports: Get in the Game
Statistics about sport programs and coaching:
• 30 to 40 million kids playing organized sports each year
• 2 to 4 million coaches—less than 20%—have received any type of training
• 85% of these coaches are dads coaching their own children
• 80% of the kids are in non-school programs
• 20% in school programs
• Participation in non-school programs (i.e. clubs) has increased
Stellar Athletes staff are not only trained and certified specific to the needs of our youth—your kids— we are athletes. Many of the staff have played both high school and college athletics. We’ve been through the process, we have done the research and we have time tested all the programs. We know what works.