The Bridge to the Future Foundation is a non-profit Delaware corporation, under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3).
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Loren Snyder - Executive Director, Bridge to the Future Foundation
Keith Nahlovsky - Volleyball Coach, Edge Volleyball Club
Hawley Woods-Gray - Associate Director, Bridge to the Future Foundation; Director of The Bridge Volleyball Club
Tommy Shavers - Program Director, Bridge to the Future Foundation. College Prep/Life Skills Instructor, At-Risk Coordinator, Student-Athlete Asst. Life Skills Coordinator, college minister, public speaker, and author.
BOARD OF ADVISORS:
Baseball
Alan Jaeger - Jaeger Sports, Arm Care Specialist for MLB, NCAA, teams and players.
Barry Larkin - 12 time MLB All Star; Golden Glove; MLB Network, ESPN and Baseball Tonight analyst
Soccer
Jen Lalor-Nielsen - USA Bronze Medalist, Santa Clara University Hall of Fame, San Diego Football Academy girl's director.
Brian Quinn - USD Boys Asst. coach, ex-MLS coach, Technical Director for Adidas ESP development program.
George Kuntz - UC Irvine men's soccer head coach, nationally recognized as the one of the longest serving United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) - Directors of Coaching for State Associations in the United States.
Basketball
Dee Brown - 12 year NBA player with Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors and Orlando Magic. Coached in the WNBA for Orlando and San Antonio.. Studio Analyst for ESPN.
Dale Parker - ex-Asst. coach for Cornell University Women's basketball. Played and coached professionally in a variety of countries in South America. Head coach of girls basketball at Francis Parker HS in San Diego.
Football
Mack Strong - 15 years in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks, Selected for Pro Bowl 2005, '06, Seattle Seahawks Fullback, Sportscaster for Fox Sports Northwest.
Volleyball
Mary Jo Peppler - Peppler has trained over 50 collegiate All Americans, numerous world champions, and has worked with a variety of colleges as a consultant. Still, she is best known for her innovative coach training programs and is a popular lecturer and author. Mary Jo Peppler's international experience includes playing on the 1964 U.S. Olympic Team, on the 1967 U.S. Gold Medal Pan American Team (named to All Tournament Team), and at the 1970 World Championships where she was named the tournament's 'Most Outstanding Player.' Peppler is a four-time USVA National "Open" Tourney Most Valuable Player. She played on four USVA National Championship Teams (1966, 1972, 1973 and 1981), and earned All-American honors 11 times.
John Speraw - Head men's volleyball coach at UC Irvine. In 2008, he received a Pillar Award, which showcases outstanding achievement in ethical leadership at the12th Annual Ethics in America Awards. Speraw was named an assistant coach with the U.S. National team in January, 2007 and helped Team USA to a not only the gold medal in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, but a World League Championship. Head coach of the USA Junior National Team three times as well as the head coach of the Youth National Team.
Deitre Collins-Parker - Former member of the U.S. national team and a three-time AVCA All-American at the University of Hawaii, 1988 Olympic Team in Seoul, named to the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team in October 2005. Collins-Parker was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame this past fall. She currently serves as a member of the AVCA Board of Directors and the chairperson on the AVCA Minority Coaches Committee.
Golf
Joe Vogel - FIU head women's golf coach. Since 2001, Vogel was the president and founder of the South Florida Junior Golf Foundation (SFJGF) in Plantation, Fla. As a non-profit corporation established to promote golf to juniors, the Foundation ran the SFJGF junior tour, hosted numerous summer golf camps and introduced the game to over 8,500 middle- and elementary-school students at 35 schools around Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. He also served as the Southern Chapter president (1995-97) and on the board for the South Florida Section of the PGA.
Lacrosse
Kylee White - SDSU Women's Lacrosse Coach, 3-time Member of Canadian World Cup team, Captain of Ohio State University lacrosse team.
Track and Field
Wes Williams - CSUSM asst. coach. ex-Olympic Hurdler, ranked 3rd in the world. Williams was the first to take 13 strides between all hurdles after the first one and establish a key breakthrough for the future of world class hurdlers. Ran and coached at SDSU.
Rahn Sheffield - Sheffield earned three major coaching awards in 2003. He was named both MWC and the Cal-Nevada Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons and followed that with USTCA West District Coach-of-the-Year honors. He has been named one of the top hurdle/sprint coaches five times by the United States Olympic Development Committee. Sheffield's unique hurdling technique, the "rotation", has changed the outlook on hurdling. Using two of his athletes, the Olympic Development Committee compared this technique to the ultimate 400-meter hurdle model. Sheffield's athletes' performances were proven to be superior to that of the ultimate model. Sheffield has been sought out by athletes across the nation and as far away as Canada and Holland
Mental Training / Sports Psychology:
Keith Power - Keith Power joined UC Berkeley in July of 2009 as the first High Performance Director for intercollegiate athletics, a role in which he focuses on the development of the High Performance Initiative into a vital resource for student-athletes, coaches and staff. An accredited sport psychologist with the British Association of Sport and Exercises Sciences (BASES), Power has worked as a consultant for a wide range of elite teams and individuals from many sports, including soccer, rugby, track and field, golf, swimming and tennis. Clients in the corporate world have turned to him for guidance in human performance enhancement with coaching, human change systems and processes, creating and sustaining elite teams and cultural performance analysis and culture change programs.
Alan Jaeger - Jaeger Sports; author of Getting Focused, Staying Focused.
Media Production / Video:
Jeff Proctor - Co-Founder and President of ProAngle Media, LLC. He left KCBS/KCAL where he was the Vice President of Sports for the Duopoly and in that position he oversaw all of the stations' sports programming. Prior to his accession to that position, Proctor was an Emmy winning producer at KCAL where he produced Anaheim Angels and Los Angeles Clippers telecasts. Before coming to KCAL, he was the Executive Producer at Fox Sports West and West 2.
Performing Arts / Music:
Kukazi LLC - Conceptualized, Negotiated, Executive Produced and Produced licensing deals and/or the content for, a myriad of distinctive and noteworthy products including: Jimi Hendrix, American Idol, Vivendi, Eminem/D12, Beyoncé, Virgin, and others.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Loren Snyder - Executive Director, Bridge to the Future Foundation
Keith Nahlovsky - Volleyball Coach, Edge Volleyball Club
Hawley Woods-Gray - Associate Director, Bridge to the Future Foundation; Director of The Bridge Volleyball Club
Tommy Shavers - Program Director, Bridge to the Future Foundation. College Prep/Life Skills Instructor, At-Risk Coordinator, Student-Athlete Asst. Life Skills Coordinator, college minister, public speaker, and author.
BOARD OF ADVISORS:
Baseball
Alan Jaeger - Jaeger Sports, Arm Care Specialist for MLB, NCAA, teams and players.
Barry Larkin - 12 time MLB All Star; Golden Glove; MLB Network, ESPN and Baseball Tonight analyst
Soccer
Jen Lalor-Nielsen - USA Bronze Medalist, Santa Clara University Hall of Fame, San Diego Football Academy girl's director.
Brian Quinn - USD Boys Asst. coach, ex-MLS coach, Technical Director for Adidas ESP development program.
George Kuntz - UC Irvine men's soccer head coach, nationally recognized as the one of the longest serving United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) - Directors of Coaching for State Associations in the United States.
Basketball
Dee Brown - 12 year NBA player with Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors and Orlando Magic. Coached in the WNBA for Orlando and San Antonio.. Studio Analyst for ESPN.
Dale Parker - ex-Asst. coach for Cornell University Women's basketball. Played and coached professionally in a variety of countries in South America. Head coach of girls basketball at Francis Parker HS in San Diego.
Football
Mack Strong - 15 years in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks, Selected for Pro Bowl 2005, '06, Seattle Seahawks Fullback, Sportscaster for Fox Sports Northwest.
Volleyball
Mary Jo Peppler - Peppler has trained over 50 collegiate All Americans, numerous world champions, and has worked with a variety of colleges as a consultant. Still, she is best known for her innovative coach training programs and is a popular lecturer and author. Mary Jo Peppler's international experience includes playing on the 1964 U.S. Olympic Team, on the 1967 U.S. Gold Medal Pan American Team (named to All Tournament Team), and at the 1970 World Championships where she was named the tournament's 'Most Outstanding Player.' Peppler is a four-time USVA National "Open" Tourney Most Valuable Player. She played on four USVA National Championship Teams (1966, 1972, 1973 and 1981), and earned All-American honors 11 times.
John Speraw - Head men's volleyball coach at UC Irvine. In 2008, he received a Pillar Award, which showcases outstanding achievement in ethical leadership at the12th Annual Ethics in America Awards. Speraw was named an assistant coach with the U.S. National team in January, 2007 and helped Team USA to a not only the gold medal in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, but a World League Championship. Head coach of the USA Junior National Team three times as well as the head coach of the Youth National Team.
Deitre Collins-Parker - Former member of the U.S. national team and a three-time AVCA All-American at the University of Hawaii, 1988 Olympic Team in Seoul, named to the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team in October 2005. Collins-Parker was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame this past fall. She currently serves as a member of the AVCA Board of Directors and the chairperson on the AVCA Minority Coaches Committee.
Golf
Joe Vogel - FIU head women's golf coach. Since 2001, Vogel was the president and founder of the South Florida Junior Golf Foundation (SFJGF) in Plantation, Fla. As a non-profit corporation established to promote golf to juniors, the Foundation ran the SFJGF junior tour, hosted numerous summer golf camps and introduced the game to over 8,500 middle- and elementary-school students at 35 schools around Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. He also served as the Southern Chapter president (1995-97) and on the board for the South Florida Section of the PGA.
Lacrosse
Kylee White - SDSU Women's Lacrosse Coach, 3-time Member of Canadian World Cup team, Captain of Ohio State University lacrosse team.
Track and Field
Wes Williams - CSUSM asst. coach. ex-Olympic Hurdler, ranked 3rd in the world. Williams was the first to take 13 strides between all hurdles after the first one and establish a key breakthrough for the future of world class hurdlers. Ran and coached at SDSU.
Rahn Sheffield - Sheffield earned three major coaching awards in 2003. He was named both MWC and the Cal-Nevada Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons and followed that with USTCA West District Coach-of-the-Year honors. He has been named one of the top hurdle/sprint coaches five times by the United States Olympic Development Committee. Sheffield's unique hurdling technique, the "rotation", has changed the outlook on hurdling. Using two of his athletes, the Olympic Development Committee compared this technique to the ultimate 400-meter hurdle model. Sheffield's athletes' performances were proven to be superior to that of the ultimate model. Sheffield has been sought out by athletes across the nation and as far away as Canada and Holland
Mental Training / Sports Psychology:
Keith Power - Keith Power joined UC Berkeley in July of 2009 as the first High Performance Director for intercollegiate athletics, a role in which he focuses on the development of the High Performance Initiative into a vital resource for student-athletes, coaches and staff. An accredited sport psychologist with the British Association of Sport and Exercises Sciences (BASES), Power has worked as a consultant for a wide range of elite teams and individuals from many sports, including soccer, rugby, track and field, golf, swimming and tennis. Clients in the corporate world have turned to him for guidance in human performance enhancement with coaching, human change systems and processes, creating and sustaining elite teams and cultural performance analysis and culture change programs.
Alan Jaeger - Jaeger Sports; author of Getting Focused, Staying Focused.
Media Production / Video:
Jeff Proctor - Co-Founder and President of ProAngle Media, LLC. He left KCBS/KCAL where he was the Vice President of Sports for the Duopoly and in that position he oversaw all of the stations' sports programming. Prior to his accession to that position, Proctor was an Emmy winning producer at KCAL where he produced Anaheim Angels and Los Angeles Clippers telecasts. Before coming to KCAL, he was the Executive Producer at Fox Sports West and West 2.
Performing Arts / Music:
Kukazi LLC - Conceptualized, Negotiated, Executive Produced and Produced licensing deals and/or the content for, a myriad of distinctive and noteworthy products including: Jimi Hendrix, American Idol, Vivendi, Eminem/D12, Beyoncé, Virgin, and others.
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