With basketball tryouts coming up this weekend, CEO Tony Korson has offered some valuable tips on what coaches are looking for during tryouts. Here’s a hint: “Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard.” Hello Koa Families! I hope everyone is having a great week. I began this blog to connect with the local…
Good morning Koa Family, and welcome back to the Inner Koa site! Today embodies one of my favorite quotes from a classic sports movie, “sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes…it rains.” Rain is not ideal for outdoor sports–practice is canceled, you miss an opportunity to see your teammates and coach, and you feel…
This week, I respond to three questions in the Whitman HS paper, the Black & White. 1. Why do you believe classic and travel sports leagues have become so successful over the years? When did you see a big spike in participation in Koa? This is a great question, and it has been interesting to watch…
Hello Koa Families! After a bit of a blogging hiatus with summer vacations, the craziness of back to school. Find Your Inner Koa is back!!! Today’s blog entry is a response to an article the Washington Post published back in May entitled “Stealing home: How travel teams are eroding community baseball”. A few parents asked…
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FALL 2014 SEASON CHAMPIONS AND ALL-STARS! Koa BABL All-Stars Koa BABL All-Stars Terps – Koa BABL NL Fall 2014 Champions Splitters – Koa BABL AL Fall 2014 Champions
People ask me all the time, why did you start Koa? What idea inspired you to start Koa? The answer is: a little bit of pain is why I founded Koa. I feel like “a little bit of pain” is why most businesses come about. My pain was two summer seasons of competitive travel baseball…
There is nothing more beautiful to a sports fan than watching a kid dust off his cleats and lace up for the first time in the spring. I mean, that sentence alone sounds like a Normal Rockwell painting, doesn’t it? Last Saturday certainly felt like one. With our sunglasses back on, our gloves on our…
The date March 1st will always hold a special place in my heart – it’s the official start day for high school spring sports in Montgomery County. This year on March 1st, I drove by the baseball field at my alma mater, Whitman HS and took a quick glance at their first practice of the…
As CEO of Koa Sports, my role in the company is the antithesis of Bill Murray’s experience in Groundhog Day – for me every day is different! Good thing, because I like my life hectic and with too much going on. This weekend I spend my Sunday sizing our Travel Baseball players for their spring…
Good afternoon, and happy Monday. The big game everyone in America was watching — oh yes the Super Bowl! Well, this year’s version of the NFL Championship didn’t prove to be too special, (and neither did the commercials), however this was my favorite one. But I digress; the focus of this article is to discuss…
