At Utah Speed Academy we are committed to teaching athletes the techniques of training that are necessary to optimize their athletic potential.  We are commited to helping each athlete become stronger, faster, quicker, and more dynamic.

Beginning with fundamental technique work, the focus of the training will be on improving each athletes speed, whether it be for a 40-yard dash, running to first base, or sprinting down the court.  Through increases in speed, athletes will be able to better work on and see increases in agility, vertical jump, and power which will attribute to developing the over-all athlete. 

Here's the reality: there is nothing that makes more of a difference than flat out speed in a game or any competition. We have all seen games be decided because of speed; the ability of a player or players to outrun or be quicker than their opponent.  An athletes future in sports is affected by how fast or slow they are. There is no substitute for blazing speed to pump up your team, completely turn a game around and discourage your opponent.

"Shaping the quality of movement economy for an athlete can be a lasting change and therefore lead to a long-term and consistent adhered response.

It consists of re-programming the CNS (Central Nervous System) by creating positive habitual patterns of movement execution. In the young athlete, the CNS is plastic by nature – so if these habitual patterns are programmed early enough in the developmental training of a young athlete, they are ensured to become a lasting response.

The plasticity referred to above is a law of human development that states the young CNS to be an adaptable or shapeable commodity. If technique is taught and layered in via a progressive approach, the young athletes capacity to both learn and retain a certain skill or group of skills is extremely high from a lifetime consideration.

As the human body ascends chronologically, its capacity to learn, retain and reproduce given skills or abilities is greatly diminished – not impossible, but not nearly as lofty as in the pre-adolescent years.

That is why fundamental technique application and nonspecificity must be the cornerstones of training young athletes."

--Brian Grasso, Founder and Executive Director of the International Youth Conditioning Association

Utah Speed Academy athlete's Matt Criddle and Tyler Hirsch just broke their school record in the 100m dash with times of 12.06 seconds for Matt and 12.31 seconds for Tyler! The previous record for their age at Timberline Middle School was 12.64 seconds. WAY TO GO GUYS!!!

We would also like to congratulate Dallin Rodgers for being named D-line MVP at the National Underclassmen Combine!