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.

After more than 30 years in the software industry (leading international development teams and architecting large‑scale enterprise systems), I retired to take on a far more challenging job: being a stay‑at‑home dad to two young athletes.

For more than a decade, our family has lived the full youth‑sports life. We 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. It took me years to realize that private training was not optional if our kids wanted to truly grow. It was essential. But it was not accessible.

Then came the moment everything clicked.

When our oldest son started looking for a summer job, the best option that fit his demanding 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, for significantly less money than we had ever paid to his trainers. 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 high‑quality training?

Years later, Jacob suggested we turn this this idea into a real business. And that's exactly what we did.

Building Athlete Sitter lets me combine my favorite things: my family, youth sports, and my lifelong passion for building technology that solves real problems. Together, we are creating a platform that makes training more accessible for families and more meaningful for high school athletes. It is built from the lived experience of a family that has been through it all.