Garry Washington

I played football for close to 20 years - from a nationally ranked powerhouse High School team to college and through towards the professional ranks. My Football experience includes time at Kent State University, The University of Oregon, and St. Cloud State University (MN). Following my collegiate playing career I attended tryouts and camps with several NFL teams as a punter and was given opportunities to sign with many of them. While I can coach any position, I served as a special teams coach with Abilene Christian University (TX) and Lake Erie College (OH) specializing with working with kickers, punters, long snappers, and return specialists. I have also been a kicking and punting consultant and specialist for many high schools, semi-pro, and individual athletes.

I have an extensive background in coaching and athletic experience! I participated with football, soccer, basketball, lacrosse, and track & field during my time at St. Ignatius High School (Cleveland, OH) Following high school, I played and participated in football, basketball, club volleyball and rugby at Kent State University. After transferring and attending the University of Oregon and St. Cloud State, I focused on football, Track & Field, and several other sports. I finished my collegiate career at Abilene Christian University, where I participated in Track & Field prior to beginning a collegiate coaching career. During my time at Abilene Christian University I coached several NFL prospects as well as current Houston Texans DB and return specialist Daniel Manning, who was the first pick of the Chicago Bears in the 2006 draft. I was also involved with recruiting several other athletes who have gone on to play in the NFL, AFL, and semi-pro teams. Other coaching achievements include coaching many conference and national championship track & field athletes as well as an Olympian! Additionally, I have also consulted and coached at the elementary,middle, and high school levels, sharing from my extensive athletic playing and coaching experiences!

My training philosophy is to take an athlete from where their abilities are and work to build and escalate them to beyond where they think they can go! I like to initially evaluate the athlete by getting a sense of where they are mentally with their sport, goals, and self. If available, I like to hear what their achievements are and what their next goal is. Seeing how the athlete handles the ball, moves in general, approaches each phase, and follows systematic benchmarks, are evaluated in order to move forward with conditioning and training them across a specified period of time in order to assist them to achieve, and even go beyond, their goals!!! I am available for my athletes at any time to discuss training and/or mental challenges that arise to help them overcome those barriers to success!