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Soccer: Val Margerum comeback from knee surgery has solid frehman season at Oregon State
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Soccer: Val Margerum comeback from knee surgery has solid frehman season at Oregon State

In May of this year defender Val Margerum came to Gamespeed for our help. She was just off of knee surgery and needed to get ready for her freshman season at Oregon State. Team captain of Campolindo High and Lamorinda United 94 she was an accomplished athlete. Now moving up to PAC 12 competition meant another level. She embarked on a specially devised 7 week program by Aaron Thigpen to regain the strength and integrity in her knee but also take her speed, movement and durability to the level of a college player. The result for her freshman season, she’s played in 13 matches, taking three shots, one of which was on goal … Logged 315 minutes of play on the pitch. The Beavers finished 11-6-3. Not a bad start Val.

Soccer: Val Margerum comeback from knee surgery has solid frehman season at Oregon Stateqckstep22016-12-09T00:03:23-08:00

GS: Athlete Updates- Ryan Neil commits to CPSLO & Merritt Men’s basketball ready

Congratulations to Ryan Neil. Formerly of Monte Vista High 2011 and DVC 2012 he has committed to play for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He has great size and moves well for a big guy. He honed those skills while working with Aaron and Mike at Gamespeed. His mom wrote us recently to give us the good news:

Hi Aaron,

Happy Holidays! I just wanted to let you know (I don’t think we have before) that Ryan is leaving in two weeks to start college at Cal Poly, and will be playing football there. He was also offered a spot at another Northern California university, and owes a huge thank you to you and Mike. THANK YOU! Dee

Looking forward to following the Merritt College basketball team. Coached by one of my mentors Maurice Compton they have spent numerous sessions at Gamespeed working on speed and agility skills to take their play to the next level. They particularly liked our combo plyometric and movement circuits, well “liked” might be too strong a word. Good luck […]

GS: Athlete Updates- Ryan Neil commits to CPSLO & Merritt Men’s basketball readyqckstep22016-12-09T00:03:23-08:00

Football: Dublin’s Spencer Hollie commits to SMU

Congrats to Spencer Hollie strong side DE for Dublin High. He recently committed to Southern Methodist University. He will follow in the footsteps of his father former NFL lineman Doug Hollie. Spencer’s a sharp kid with the size and strength to do well at the next level. Training off and on at Gamespeed for the past two years he’s been focusing on speed and footwork. Ok Spence now the hard part begins lets get to work. College Ready!

New SMU Commit Spencer Hollie Talks

Fletcher Whiteley
PonyPride.com Staff Writer

During his weekend visit to SMU picked up a commitment from Dublin (CA) 2013 defensive end Spencer Hollie. Hollie was very excited when he was offered and committed on the spot to SMU.

“I was offered right after SMU did their walkthrough on Saturday,” said Hollie. “After walkthrough coach Hill and coach Jones took me into their office and offered me and I committed to SMU on the spot.”




Hollie committed to SMU this past weekend while on campus.

The 6-foot-6. 285-pound defensive end is happy to be following in his father’s footsteps at […]

Football: Dublin’s Spencer Hollie commits to SMUqckstep22016-12-09T00:03:23-08:00

Cross Country Annie Geasa drops 26 secs. All EBAL Second Team
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Cross Country Annie Geasa drops 26 secs. All EBAL Second Team

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Cross Country Annie Geasa drops 26 secs. All EBAL Second Team

Congrats to Annie (Foothill High) on her recent personal best by dropping a whopping 26 seconds off her time. She was also selected to the EBAL second team. Yep even distance runners need speed. Annie is one of many of Gamespeed’s middle distance runners who for the past two years has done the right speed, explosiveness and strength training to compliment her distance events. She is having an outstanding senior season and we look forward to her exploits on the track. Good look at NCS this weekend.

Cross Country Annie Geasa drops 26 secs. All EBAL Second Teamqckstep22016-12-09T00:03:23-08:00

Football: Gamespeed Alum Mike Carbone Highlighted in his final Collegiate Game
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Football: Gamespeed Alum Mike Carbone Highlighted in his final Collegiate Game

Mike Carbone (Freedom High – Los Medanos CC) is finishing his senior season at Montana State University Northern. He has been a key player for the Lights and has been on fire lately. Great everyday story of a student athlete who kept working on himself and moved up from high school to junior college then onto the collegiate ranks to play football. NFL who knows, I think he’s got the speed, size and athleticism but he’ll graduate with a degree in Business so mission accomplished. Nice story about him in the Harve Daily News:

Game Day Notebook: Senior running backs make memories
MSU-Northern Game Day Notebook
George Ferguson
Monday, November 5th, 2012

Mastering the sack
Senior Day was special for all nine Northern stars playing in their final game at home. But many also made a huge impact on the game itself. One of those was senior defensive tackle Mike Carbone, who’s been on a terror as of late. Carbone racked up six solo tackles, two for loss, while also earning one sack Saturday. It was Carbone’s fourth straight game with a sack, and he now leads the Lights with six on the season. Carbone, a 6-2, 265-pounder from […]

Football: Gamespeed Alum Mike Carbone Highlighted in his final Collegiate Gameqckstep22016-12-09T00:03:24-08:00

Congrats to Brandon Crawford, second GS athlete to win a World Series Chanmpionship!

Big Shout out to Gamespeed’s own Brandon Crawford. The twenty- five year old shortstop sensation made stellar defensive plays to help the Giants to a World Series win over Detroit. A GS athlete since the age of thirteen and just recently graced our doors this summer. The type of champion we like to see low key, humble, but fiercely motivated. Great job, a great year and to top it off the real win will be the upcoming birth of your baby girl. Enjoy!

Brandon is actually the second athlete in GS history to play in the World Series. The first was Antioch native Aaron Miles who played in the 2006 series at second base for the Championship Cardinals.

Aaron just recently retired after a nine year MLB career. Read the story here: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/13/aaron-miles-opts-for-retirement/.

Congrats to Brandon Crawford, second GS athlete to win a World Series Chanmpionship!qckstep22016-12-09T00:03:24-08:00

Gamespeed trained trio featured in latest issue of SportStars

Nice to see some guys with the GS pedigree getting some ink. Key members of the Monte Vista Football team, Nakita Zamora (QB), Mason Melin (WR/TE) and Zack Chang (RB) have GS ties. Zamora 2008-2010, Melin 2010-current, Chang 2009-current.

Read about them and their outstanding season in the article entitled “Horsepower”at : http://www.sportstarsonline.com/magazine

Nice going guys!

Gamespeed trained trio featured in latest issue of SportStarsqckstep22016-12-09T00:03:24-08:00

GS says good bye to latest group of college athletes
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GS says good bye to latest group of college athletes

Well its back to school for out college athletes and we wanted to send them off and wish them well. Good luck guys:

Sara Griffith UC Davis Track

Chance Moses UC Santa Barbara Track

Noria Mitchell St Mary’s Soccer

Zack Mayeri UC San Diego Track

Mickell Escobar USD Softball

Kiara Garcia Oregon State Softball

Marissa Escalante Cal State Northridge Softball

Nathan Chung UC Davis Track

Craig Jones Stanford Football

Dash Oliver CAL Track

Max Dutto CAL Baseball

Joey Epperson UC Santa Barbara Baseball

Eddie Epperson Santa Barbara CC Baseball

Karra Gardin Boston College Track

Mackenzie Stange Hawaii Track

Victoria Bradshaw Lewis & Clark Softball

Nick Candau Pepperdine Water Polo

Eric Chavez Chabot CC Baseball

Julian Kelly Chabot CC Baseball

GS says good bye to latest group of college athletesqckstep22016-12-09T00:03:24-08:00

Gamespeed’s Andre Ward defends title in Spectacular Fashion!
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Gamespeed’s Andre Ward defends title in Spectacular Fashion!

In a prime time HBO telecast, Gamespeed trained Andre Ward defended his WBA/WBC Super Middleweight World Champion title. I was there ring side just six rows from the ring (courtesy of Andre). This was a turning point fight demonstrating that he is a marquee fighter who possess the talent, skills, and entertainment factor to be a prime time draw. The fight accomplished all of that and more. Andre showed exceptional speed and power with a jab that Dawson couldn’t evade and two crushing blows that sent him to the canvas twice during the fight. Two key facets of his fight game that he and trainer Aaron Thigpen have been developing in conditioning workouts since last year prior to his Super Six win over Carl Froch. I also like the fact that his conditioning looked exceptional during the 10th round he notched a TKO but he had the stamina to go well beyond, his legs looked strong, feet light, and posture solid. It was beautiful to see the work we’ve done together live. Congrats Dre’ were proud of you.

Read about the fight in SJ Mercury:

OAKLAND — Welcome […]

Gamespeed’s Andre Ward defends title in Spectacular Fashion!qckstep22016-12-09T00:03:24-08:00

Gamespeed’s Andre Ward upcoming title fight.

Come support the pride of Oakland and Gamespeed’s own Andre Ward. He will defend his title against Chad Dawson September 8th at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. It will also air on HBO. Andre’s been training privately with GS owner Aaron Thigpen for over a year in which we’ve seen him win the Super 7 Championship. Watch this athlete bring his tenacious and determined work ethic into the ring.

On September 8 live on HBO from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., Andre Ward will defend his super middleweight crown against current top light heavyweight Chad Dawson, in a meeting of top American fighters. Ward discusses the matchup and what he expects from Dawson below.

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What is Dawson’s most dangerous attribute as a fighter? How are you preparing for this fight? Is there any one aspect of Dawson’s game that concerns you most, or that you’ve focused on more than any other during training?

“I cannot identify what Chad’s greatest attribute as a fighter is yet because I have not fought him so that remains to be seen. There is not one thing that’s […]

Gamespeed’s Andre Ward upcoming title fight.qckstep22016-12-09T00:03:24-08:00