The Get There

Brock Hardy was the kid nobody could keep still. He growled at kids in flag football, double-legged his kindergarten teacher in the cafeteria, and spent his early years bouncing off every wall in Box Elder, Utah. He was later diagnosed with ADHD. He was five foot eight in fifth grade.   He also went on to be a four-time Utah state champion, a four-time NCAA All-American at the University of Nebras...

  John Moeaki played linebacker at BYU, where one of his travel roommates was a young Kalani Sitake. His daughter Taylor won Gatorade Player of the Year in Utah basketball and played collegiately at Utah Tech. His son Noah, who started on varsity basketball as a freshman at American Fork and won a state championship, received D1 football offers the same week before ever having real football film,...

Ului Satuala never played organized sports growing up. He learned everything from YouTube videos, trial and error, and a commitment to showing up at the park with his kids on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The result: four kids who all became multi-sport athletes, three already playing at the D1 level and a fourth being recruited right now. In this episode of The Get There, Brad sits down with Ulu...

RaeAnn Belnap is a fastpitch coach, a hitting trainer, and the mom of Kennedy Belnap, a pitcher currently competing at BYU. She has spent years on both sides of the coaching relationship, and in this episode she holds nothing back. RaeAnne and Brad dig into what it looks like to raise a D1 athlete without making it the point of the whole thing. They talk about overtraining and injury, the moment K...

Tyler Batty plays in the NFL. But before the draft, before BYU, before the scholarship, there was a farm, a four-wheeler, and a doctor's warning that his football career was over before it started.   In this episode of To Get There, Brad Gordon sits down with Layne and Peg Batty to tell the real story. They talk about raising seven kids on a Utah farm with no handouts and no shortcuts, navigating...