Anya Adams
Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Positive Double-Goal Coach (Former PCA Trainer)
ELDOA Practitioner and SOMA Trainer
CHEK-Trained Practitioner
SOMA Golf Trainer
Over 15 Years Coaching Athletes Age 5 - Intercollegiate
Former Multi-Sport D1 Athlete and Professional Athlete
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Workshops for Youth Sports Coaches and Organizations
Learn how to be a competitive coach who connects with your athletes, helps them reach their true potential, increases their confidence level, and builds a strong team culture that results in players looking forward to each practice and improving their skills.
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Strength, Conditioning, Recovery
Learn proper reinforcement/strength exercises for each area of the body, as well as recovery methods such as ELDOA and myofascial stretching.
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Holistic Lifestyle Coaching
Just starting out on your health journey and want to gain a proper foundation in nutrition and movement, or have you hit a plateau and want to continue to increase your vitality?
Coach Anya was my sports psychologist just as much as she was my hitting instructor. We often paused during lessons for 10+ minutes at a time just to discuss my mental approach, whether it was regarding swing mechanics or drama with one of my teammates, to make sure I played ball with a clear and confident mind. What’s that Yogi Berra quote about the game being 90% mental and the other half being physical? Anya supported me instrumentally in both areas and I always left my hitting lessons confident, focused, and reassured. And this confidence translated into more areas of my life than just softball. There is no doubt that Anya Adams played a pivotal role during my childhood as a coach, mentor, and reliable friend.
Additionally, I think Anya Adams is quite seriously the only hitting coach on the face of this planet who correctly teaches opposite-field hitting!! So many players and coaches fall in love with how far you can pull an inside pitch… but once you get to the college level, you simply will not see that pitching anymore and you must learn to hit it where it’s pitched.
There is no doubt that I was fully prepared for the college level by the time I graduated high school. But I must acknowledge how much of a different person I was at the beginning vs. end of my years of lessons with Anya. I leveraged the confidence and mechanics instilled by Anya to become the leadoff hitter and starting center fielder for a D1 Power-5 college team, and I was awarded with first team all Big-Ten conference and first team all Midwest region multiple times, and even made it onto the College Madness third team all-America roster. Not to mention I had a blast doing it. Accolades were never my specific career goal, but they surely would not have been awarded had it not been for the effect Anya had on me.
Now in my post-grad life and with a fully developed frontal lobe, I truthfully get emotional when reflecting on just how much of a positive impact Anya made on my life’s trajectory.
-Kiana Sherlund, Top 50 USA Collegiate Player of the Year Watchlist; Big-Ten Conference First Team; USA Today First Team High School All-American