Jordan Fliegal Founded CoachUp to Help Kids Achieve Their Athletic Dreams
CoachUp CEO Jordan Fliegal played basketball as a kid and while he loved the sport, he wasn’t very good at it—not at first anyway. On the CoachUp website, Fliegal speaks about how he was lucky enough to find a personal coach to help him train in his favorite sport. Through the private coach’s help, Fliegal managed to improve enough that many top colleges tried to recruit him. He even went on to play professional basketball in overseas leagues. Fliegal attributes his success to his private coach, and that’s why he founded tech startup CoachUp. CoachUp is an online service that conveniently connects parents and kids with private trainers and coaches to help them with a sport or activity. Fliegal attributes finding his private coach when he was a kid to pure luck. It seems he wants to take luck out of the equation and make private coaching available to as many young people as possible with CoachUp. This cool person in technology is using the connected world to try to help kids achieve more in their athletic activities. Read more »
