BACKGROUND AND EXPLANATION
I am pleased to announce that I am stepping down from executing CPBA programming that I started with (29) 6th grade -9th grade boys at Crabapple First Baptist Church gym in Alpharetta in 2005. From those Thursday night and Saturday morning sessions for 12 weeks it grew to a $400,000+ per year business servicing thousands of kids from Grades K-12 annually.
We built relationships and partnerships with some of the most prestigious schools and basketball programs in the North Fulton and Forsyth County area. We conducted satellite programming in KY, NC, NH, FL, WA and even as far as Beijing, China.
We have trained numerous teams that have gone on to win County Championships and multiple High School State Championships. We have facilitated and trained kids that have gone on to play at all levels of college as well as 3 in the NBA with a dozen or so others internationally. Many times though we were able to take a player who had been cut the previous year and add value, skills and confidence that propelled them to not only go back and make that team the next year, but become a starter, leading scorer and eventually the first 1,000 point scorer in their school’s history. For me, it was all about adding value and serving others by facilitating them outside of their current comfort zone to another level of achievement. The 2 words that drove me daily were passion and integrity.
Over the past 5 years, I have significantly scaled back my schedule as I have tried to execute something that I explained back to the parents of those 29 kids at CFBC one Saturday afternoon which is, time is the most precious commodity on earth. Back then it was trying to explain to parents that their time was much more important than their money that would pay dividends for their kids. Now, for me, it is being able to reconnect with the love of my life, travel and experience the world that always seemed to be beyond my reach. Now it means having a work life balance through real estate where I can take 3 motorcycle trips in one summer covering 19 states and 14,000 miles. It means having a cabin I built with just one other guy in northern NH 60 miles from Canada to ski and snowmobile for 9 weeks straight. It means not only hiking for as many years as my ankles, knees and back will allow, but it will be following grandkids around as they execute their future endeavors.
My entire life since 11 years old I have had to be in survival mode with no money and navigating life on my own or coaching and throwing myself into the lives of others. What the last 5 years have taught me is that I can create a lifestyle to where I can have everything I want in life while having a partner to share it all and so much more.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Therefore I am selling Collegiate Prep Basketball Academy with the rights to the North Fulton, Forsyth, Cherokee and Pickens County territory. I was approached about 7 months ago by a parent of 2 former players who wanted to purchase the database, contacts, relationships with facilities, departments and municipalities along with all the itineraries for training programs, camps and clinics, National Rating Program as well as future programming opportunities with overseas travel teams and college NIL ideas. Basically, I will give a buyer everything I have done over not only the past 20 years with CPBA, but the previous 10 years as a college coach and recruiter.
THANKS
Finally, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you! It was an amazing ride and I used to say all the time that I felt like the richest, luckiest guy in the world. I was blessed to create a program where I got to hangout in a gym like a 12 year old and play basketball for a living. I will cherish the relationships, stories, encounters and above all the process of serving others by simply adding value. I tried to always keep things simple. Make it a place where there was accountability for all involved and explain the why. A common thread I would hear constantly from kids was that the time always went by too fast and things just made sense. I think in kid terms that is about as good of a compliment one can strive for.