The Athletes Portal

Tamir Bryant is a basketball and personal trainer who specializes in skills, footwork and Corrective exercises based out of Atlanta Georgia. He played for Dothan Highschool, Stockbridge Highschool, and concluded his career at the University of West Georgia. After college, Tamir was able to pursue a career in coaching and training and has been doing so for 8 years. He has coached all over the world...

Kevin Monangai is a man of many talents he works on wall street for JP Morgan and is. a founder of RAW Recruit. Kevin has a portfolio of four early-stage ventures across AI, sports technology, healthcare, and home services. LocalLayer AI gives local businesses the infrastructure to compete. RawRecruit helps the high school athletes that big programs overlook find their best college fit. ProcedureR...

Dane Burkholder is a private wealth advisor with 24 years experience and works for Roseville Wealth Management Group. Dane is a husband and father former football player and 3X Ironman. Dane Burkholder is 1 of 4 partners at Roseville Wealth Management Group they manage 2 Billion in assets 4000 clients in 42 states. Dane works with college athletes it started as. passion project, for the past 2 yea...

What does it take to build a football program that develops young men from middle school all the way to college? At Walton High School, head coach Daniel Burner has spent 10 years building exactly that — a program rooted in culture, community, and continuity. The foundation starts early. Walton's feeder program, the Junior Raiders, introduces student athletes to the same plays and system they'll r...

Dr Jermal McCoy played College basketball at North Highland College followed by Texas State University. After College he was a member of the Harlem Globe Trotters. Dr McCoy started Life After Ball to help athletes make the transition to life after sports. The Mission To empower athletes to transition seamlessly from sports to a successful careers beyond the field. We envision a world where every a...

As head coach of the Mt. Vernon Varsity basketball team, Reed has done something special — guiding his squad from a 15-13 record in his first season to an incredible 28-4 finish and a Final Four appearance in year two. But this didn't happen overnight. Reed spent five years at Mt. Vernon building relationships from the ground up — coaching middle school and JV — so by the time he stepped into the...

In this episode, we sit down with Zoya Lehrer, founder of Orgo — the smart logistics calendar built for multi-sport, active families. Zoya immigrated to the US from Ukraine at age 9 and grew up in inner-city Brooklyn where parks and pavement were her playing field. That scrappy, resourceful background eventually led her to identify a massive problem hiding in plain sight: your calendar is lying to...

From the trenches to the top — meet Pace Academy's new head football coach After 15 years in the trenches coaching Pace Academy's offensive line, Kevin Johnson is stepping into the head coach role — and he brings one of the most decorated resumes in Georgia high school football with him. In this episode, Coach Johnson sits down with us to talk about his journey from Brooklyn youth football to the...

🏈 Behind every great athlete is a parent who figured it out as they went. Alisha Jordan did exactly that — and now her 6'7" son CJ is a Tight End from Walton High School and commit to NC State. In this episode, she pulls back the curtain on what it actually took: the process, the decisions, and the conversations most parents never have. If your child is making the leap from middle school to high...

The Birth of The Transition Since 2008, the mission has been to help players become better people, but is that all? Times have changed over the years. Now there are plenty of personal trainers and skill development coaches eager to teach and help this generation of athletes, BUT WHO IS TAKING THE TIME TO HELP THE TEACHERS?! This is the dilemma that I realized in 2018 as I began traveling the world...

What does it really take to help a student athlete thrive — not just on the field, but in life? In this episode, we sit down with Danielle, a mental health professional who gets it from the inside out. As a former student athlete herself — competing in both lacrosse and hockey — Danielle brings a level of understanding to her clients that's rare in the field. She knows the pressure, the identity,...

Sosuke “SOS” Watanabe brings experience across media production, event operations, and marketing, building a career centered around helping athletes and organizations grow through competition and storytelling. His work at the intersection of sports, entrepreneurship, and media has given him a strong understanding of how to build platforms that elevate athletes and strengthen basketball communities...

Michael " Duke " Williams (born October 15, 1990) is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack , and was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft . Williams has also played for the Indianapolis Colts . Williams attended Hug High School in Reno, Nevada , a...

Champ Barlow is the founder of 3P Athletics. Champ has always had a passion for a healthy and active lifestyle. He played college basketball at Pepperdine University where he earned his Bachelors Degree in Advertising. After his college career, he spent several years traveling around the world playing professional basketball. Since he began his personal training career, he has earned his NASM-Cert...

In the nine seasons of coaching, Coach Slone has helped 36 players go on to play college basketball on scholarship and five to play professionally. He has seven years coaching at the high school level and two years coaching at the Division I level. In the last three years, Coach Slone has coached 16 players who went on to commit or receive Division I offers, and that list is growing. Another nine...