{"id":1459,"date":"2017-01-06T19:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compassohio.com\/content\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:31:10","slug":"velocity-sports-training-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compassohio.com\/velocity-sports-training-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Velocity Sports Training Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> Winter is the perfect time for athletes to begin indoor sports training. Mike Grady has been well aware of that fact for many years. Grady played high school baseball for North Canton Hoover before he went on to pitch for Ohio Wesleyan University. By 2005 he was playing professionally for the Washington Wild Things. Ultimately returning to the Canton area, Grady was the pitching coach for Malone University through 2009. In the summer of 2010, Grady started coaching the Stark County Terriers of the Great Lakes Collegiate Baseball League where five pitchers went on to play professional baseball. It was during that period that Grady was asked if he would be willing to coach young athletes. He helped pilot a velocity training pitching class which allowed athletes to add up to 4 miles per hour to their pitch speed and eventually Grady became a private pitching coach working with more than 100 athletes at a local fitness facility. Two of Grady\u2019s students were the sons of Mike Olivieri, which is when the subject of partnering in a new building was discussed.
By Doug Kish, MA<\/p>\n
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Velocity Sports is the collaboration of co-owners Olivieri and Grady. With Olivieri\u2019s knowledge and experience in general contracting as the owner of Olivieri Contracting, Inc., and Grady\u2019s ten years of experience as a pitching coach and the owner of Grady\u2019s Pitching School, it was a perfect match. They chose to locate their facility in North Canton due to its proximity to Route 77, making it a centralized location for residents of North Canton, Jackson Township, Green and other local communities. Many of those local communities have begun utilizing Velocity Sports for their indoor workouts and upcoming seasons. The 4,500 square-foot building has three turf batting cage areas with nets that can be retracted to form one large training area which can accommodate yoga and strength classes, speed and agility training, and dodgeball. The strength training area includes free weights, a squat rack, bench press, BOSU balls, medicine balls, and more. Their mission statement is \u201cTo help athletes become faster, stronger and quicker\u201d and their focus is on improving pitching velocity and bat speed.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n