Damari P.

I am currently head coach Charlotte dragons 7th grade AAU team, and Head coach of Lab University a prep school in Charlotte, NC. I am also one of the head trainers at LabCity gym located in charlotte, NC. I typically work with middle school, high school, NBA/ professional athletes. I sat out a year in college and since the coaches knew I wanted to one day become a coach they made made sure that I was doing a lot of stuff that coaches do. I learned a lot from that year and it’s different seeing the game from a different perspective on the sidelines. I appreciate Coach Dre the owner at Lab City for allowing me to train kids and help improve my training skills and at the same time help impact kids lives. Coach dre was my coach years ago for the dragons and I learned so much from him that helps me with how I train today.

I am a former division 1 basketball player, I played basketball at Western Kentucky University, Eastern Michigan University, and Prairie View A&M University. I have lots of experience at this level and know what it takes to play at this level. I played with and against A lot of guys that are NBA players and or professional athletes. It’s always a great feeling when one of my former teammates or people that I’ve played against call me and ask if I can train them. One of my greatest accomplishments in my basketball career was my senior year in high school. My senior year wasn’t a typical senior year for most people, I attended a prep school that played a national schedule to help me get more scholarship offers from schools. So I would play teams in different states and have to travel to them, I also lived in a team house with my team. I had 0 offers coming into my senior year, and we played Oak hill, one of the greatest high school programs in the country. I ended up scoring 40 points, and after that game several colleges had offered me a full scholarship.

In my sessions we work on a variety of things. It all depends on your strength and weaknesses. I want my clients to be open with me and let me know if there is anything he/she feels like they’re struggling with and want to get better at. It’s important that my client know results don’t happen overnight, it may take months or even years to see results but if you stay focus, keep grinding, and trust in the work that we put in, everything will work its self out. I push my clients to be the best that they can be, but most importantly we will have fun! Basketball is not only about the skills/drills, I also offer strength and conditioning training depending on how dedicated my client is. I am only 23 years old so I can relate to most kids and can actually play and show kids how to do the drills that I’m teaching them.