“ Middle school for our daughter included a year of online classes, three years of mask mandates, far too much time online, and extended periods of isolation. As a result, we watched our once outgoing, happy-go-lucky, social butterfly become an anxious, reclusive, depressed, and unmotivated adolescent. We encouraged physical activity and opportunities to be around friends, but all her experiences were overshadowed by insecurity.

When she enrolled in our local public high school, we all agreed it was time for a change. She needed to play sports. She hoped joining a team would help her find friends on a big campus. Our daughter is tall, so we encouraged her to go out for the girls’ basketball team. And because she hadn’t played any competitive sports in several years, we helped her work on the skills necessary to make the team by enlisting Coach Beez’s expertise in skill development.

Over the course of six months, we watched as our daughter first made the frosh/soph team, then worked her way up to JV early on in league play. She even played in several Varsity games during the spring season of her freshman year. When she returned to school in August, she was eager to see her teammates and prepare for the next year’s tryouts.

As her parent, I'm most grateful for how developing basketball skills has helped our daughter regain her self-confidence and build friendships with dozens of hardworking student athletes. She has become even more disciplined about her schoolwork and time management, balancing practices and games with a tough academic workload. And she has developed a can-do attitude in all areas of her life. Watching the shy, anxious, reclusive traits fade away to be replaced by a strong, proud individual who knows she can accomplish anything, is priceless. It has made every extra training session worthwhile.

We can’t thank Coach Beez enough for how instrumental his training has been in all these positive developments in our daughter’s high school experience. “