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Sports enthusiast Brian Fee applied the old saying “if at first you don”™t succeed, try, try again” to his smashing success as a small business owner.
When the country rejected the idea of creating a hub for athletic activity, Fee said “ahh well” and did it himself, in Elmsford.
“I actually put together a proposal for Westchester County to do a multisport training facility with indoor/outdoor fields, a stadium and restaurants,” Fee said. “When that proposal was rejected, I decided to bring it to Westchester myself.”
Fee brought Velocity Sports Performance, an 18,000-square-foot, full-service athletic facility that includes strength and conditioning training, injury-prevention education, nutritional support, physical therapy and sports psychology to 102 Fairview Park Drive last spring.
It”™s a dream come true for Fee, who has coached high school athletics for many years. Velocity accepts all athletes from kids building the foundation for athletic development to professionals training for the Olympics.
“There are people who are looking to play at a very high level of competition, like guys trying to make it into the NFL or get a college scholarship, and then we have people who might be trying to make a JV basketball team or just have a little more confidence in gym class,” Fee said.
Joe Carbone was NBA star Kobe Bryant”™s personal trainer for 10 years and was head strength and conditioning coach for four years with the L.A. Lakers prior to taking on the position of sports performance director at Velocity.
“I just love developing athletes,” Carbone said. “That”™s what”™s a lot of fun. When you see a young person come into their own athletically, it”™s special.”
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