This is Coach Gabe of Stapleton All Sports.


He's leading the 2 and 3 year olds in some drills on the field. They all adore Coach Gabe. They do their best to follow his instructions. Jumping jacks are particularly hilarious.

So are pushups. I guess any activity requiring coordination is funny when you're 3.



This is how my boy dresses himself to go to class.

Stapleton All Sports is made for kids from age 4 to 10 -- the younger classes just started. They focus on different sports in each season: basketball and wrestling in the winter; baseball and T-ball in the spring; soccer, football, baseball and tennis in the summer. He'll be running summer camps too.

We hijacked Coach Gabe on a walk one morning and interviewed him. I love stories like Coach Gabe's: he started this business after he got laid off from his boring financial desk job and woke up thinking he just couldn't go back to that. So I was ready to write about how he has this coaching background so he can teach your kids correctly, and how his program is designed to give all kids -- not just the ones who are naturally good at sports, or who happen to be the oldest ones in their grade -- the confidence and skills to play any and all sports, but you know, the pictures kind of tell it all.