About Coach Jarrod
Anyone who knows Coach Jarrod knows, he value family, empowering youth and helping to build his community. Growing up in the inner city of Yonkers, NY with a single mom and no real mentors except for his first basketball coach- Coach Dennis. Coach Dennis was extremely instrumental in Coach Jarrod’s journey. Taking the time to teach him the fundamentals of basketball and really pushed him to always give it his all. He had faith in Coach Jarrod, he believed in him and is someone that he will never forget.

Where Coach Jarrod grew up everyone loved basketball. All the kids that he grew up with played tag around the block or basketball. The competition the competitiveness was amazing. That’s when he started to fall in love with basketball! Playing basketball taught him it’s not just about yourself, it’s also about your team. You can only go so far playing basketball alone but when you play with your whole team it’s a completely different game. He learned you can accomplish so much more together as opposed to doing it by yourself. Through sharing his love of basketball with his son (and it soon becoming his son’s love as well), he found himself coaching his son’s 1st recreational basketball team and the rest is history!

As a Coach, he brings an appreciation for the game, a heart for teaching youth and an ultimate goal for every youth to walk away believing in themselves. Coach Jarrod does not take the role of being a Coach lightly. So much so, he does not just a consider himself a coach, not just a trainer, but a mentor. Someone that can set an example on how to show up on and off the court.

“Basketball is fun. The more that we know and work together the more fun you’ll have. I like to have fun with the kids and train. I have a mixture of hard work training and fun. I want to be able to help a kid possibly change their life’s direction if they’re going down the wrong path. I want to be an inspiration to others, someone that they can look up to. Someone that believes in them. I want this to be more than words, but action. I want this to he the person the kids always see.