About

Basketball has meant everything to me for as long as I can remember. Being an athlete has shaped who I am, teaching me discipline, work ethic, and how to push myself beyond what I thought I could do. Those lessons will stay with me for the rest of my life.

As I got older, I realized that one-on-one training was essential if I wanted to reach the next level. Working with a trainer who understood my game (what I needed to improve, how to build confidence, and how to structure real development) changed everything for me. My skills grew, my mindset grew, and my love for the game grew.

But I also saw a problem. Personal training is expensive, hard to coordinate, and there's often no easy way for younger athletes and local trainers to connect. Kids want training, parents want affordable solutions, and local high school athletes want opportunities to share their skills and to earn money doing something meaningful. There was a need, but the opportunity to bring everyone together just wasn't there.

That's why we built Athlete Sitter.

Our goal is simple: connect younger players with local high school athletes who live the game every day and want to help the next generation grow. We're creating a community where training is more accessible and affordable for families, and where teen athletes can earn flexible, meaningful work teaching the sport they love.

Athlete Sitter is built by someone who's lived this journey firsthand and wants younger players to have the same chance to learn, grow, and succeed.

For more than a decade, our family has lived the full youth-sports life. We've spent countless hours driving to practices, games, camps, and tournaments. We celebrated game-winning shots and championship runs, and we felt the heartbreak of tough losses and team cut days. We have lived every high and low youth sports brings.

And through all of it, we discovered a very real issue.

On pay-to-play teams, our kids were just two of many. When we turned to private training, we found ourselves paying exorbitant rates: the same price whether our child was eight or eighteen. We discovered over time that private training was an important path to our kids personal growth, but I was never convinced that the trainers we hired were necessarily the best fit for our kids, especially when they were younger. We simply hired the same trainers the older kids were using, and assumed that that was our only option.

This went on for years.

When our oldest son started looking for a summer job, the best fit for his demanding student-athlete schedule was coaching at the same local basketball camp he attended when he was just starting out. This eventually led to him privately training younger players, but since he wasn't a "professional trainer," he was only charging families $20 an hour, good money for a teenager, but a fraction of the price we had always paid. He was catering the training specifically to the needs of the younger players, doing the same skills-bassed drills and games that he had learned from his own coaches, and he was making more money playing basketball than he would have made with any other "real" part-time job. That's when the idea behind Athlete Sitter first took shape: what if more high school athletes could earn meaningful money teaching the sport they love, and families could finally have access to affordable, age-appropriate training?

We talked about this a lot in our houshold, and eventually Jacob suggested we turn this idea into a real business. Together, we have created a platform that benefits everyone involved - and it's built from the lived experience of a family that's been through it all.