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I never planned on inventing a training tool. In fact, the idea started taking shape decades before I ever realized it—back when I was a Division I pitcher at Temple University and later at the University of Delaware from 1984 to 1988.

Back then, sports training wasn’t packed with technology or flashy programs. There were no analytics dashboards or high-speed cameras. What we had were coaches who were determined to find any edge they could. For pitchers, that edge came in the form of three simple baseballs: one light, one normal, and one heavy.

A regulation baseball weighs about 5 ounces. Our coaches handed us a 4‑ounce ball and a 6‑ounce ball and told us to throw. That was it. No complex instructions—just trust the process. And it worked. Those one‑ounce differences may seem tiny, but after 30 or 40 throws, they felt massive. I watched my velocity jump by 8 mph at a point in my career when big gains were supposed to be behind me.

I didn’t know it then, but that small training method would come back into my life years later in a completely different sport.

Fast‑forward: I’m sitting on the couch with my daughters, watching a college lacrosse game. We’re relaxed, just enjoying the moment, when a question slips out of my mouth almost without thinking: What could help lacrosse athletes improve their ball skills the way weighted training helped me as a pitcher?

That question stuck with me.

Lacrosse had products on the market, sure—but many were crude, boring, overly specific, or just flat‑out ineffective. Some were expensive without offering real improvement. It felt like the sport was waiting for something better, something innovative—something that could genuinely push players to the next level.

And suddenly, I remembered those weighted baseballs.

I wondered: if that system helped me and countless pitchers over the years—and if other sports now rely on similar resistance‑based training—why couldn’t lacrosse benefit from the same concept?

But I didn’t want to make something that just added weight. I wanted to create balls that felt exactly like a real lacrosse ball—same grip, same bounce, same behavior. No hacky‑sack softness. No sandpaper roughness. No brick‑hard shells. Just authentic feel with purposeful weight variation.

That spark became the Accelerator.

What started decades ago as a simple pitching drill turned into the foundation for a new kind of lacrosse training tool. One designed to help athletes build strength, precision, and confidence—while still being fun to use.

The Accelerator wasn’t born in a lab. It was born watching a game with my daughters, built on years of experience, curiosity, and a belief that athletes deserve tools that truly make them better.