Apex Foundry | Football Training & Mentorship in Sarasota & SW Florida
In-Person · Sarasota Remote · Worldwide

Where Talent
Gets Forged.

Heat. Pressure. Proof.

More than a trainer. You get a mentor in your kid's corner and a year-round plan to get them where they're trying to go. Every rep Filmed. Tracked. Verified.
So the growth is real, and you see it.
In person in Sarasota, or fully remote worldwide.

Roster is limited. Accepting a select number of athletes.

Coach P on the field with athletes Apex Foundry
20 athletes to the NFL & CFL Coached under staffs now at Kansas, Northwestern & the Packers Spoke at the AFCA Convention See the record →

Start wherever you are

New here What this actually is Mentorship and a year-round plan, not a camp you pay for twice a summer. Read on → Checking us out Who is doing the coaching 20 athletes to the NFL and CFL. The full record, and the tape to back it. See the record → Ready to talk Book a free consult We look at your athlete's tape and talk through the fit. No cost, no obligation. Start here →
In Their Corner · For Families

More than football.
A life set up to win.

Talent gets a kid noticed. A plan, and someone guiding them, gets them there.
Apex Foundry is a long-term mentorship first: a coach who has walked the path, invested in your athlete as a person, with a year-round plan you can actually see.

Coach P walking an athlete through a correction during practice
The Work

One correction at a time, in the middle of the rep. This is what the coaching actually looks like.

For the Athlete

A man in their corner

A mentor who has coached players to Sundays, and just as many into high-paying careers long after the game. He treats your athlete as a person, not a number on a camp roster. Someone who picks up, holds them accountable, and tells them the truth.

For the Parent

You’re never in the dark

Honest feedback and steady communication with families, the whole way. You see the plan, the grades, and exactly where your athlete stands. No guessing, no hype.

For the Long Run

Built to outlast the game

Confidence, discipline, work ethic, and the mindset to compete at the next level. The traits that outlast football and carry into whatever your kid does after it.

Talk about your athlete A real conversation about where they are and where they’re trying to go, before you commit a dollar.
Proof · Year-Round Athlete

What a full year looks like.

Vahn is the model: not a summer, a system. Offseason build into summer ramp into in-season hold, every block filmed and graded. The record below is the format. We fill it with the athlete's verified trend, never a promise.

AEM Composite Trend

Sample Format · Vahn · Now in College

5.8
6.5
7.1
7.4
Offseason Summer Camp In-Season

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We cannot say enough great things about Apex Foundry and the impact it has had on our son's football career. As a wide receiver, our son trained there for two years, and the results were incredible. Apex Foundry not only develops athletic ability, they build the confidence, discipline, work ethic, and mindset needed to compete at the next level.

What makes Apex Foundry exceptional is how they keep parents informed and involved throughout. Apex Foundry communicates consistently, gives honest feedback, and truly partners with families. Apex Foundry pushed our son to excel and fully prepared him for the demands of Division I football. Any player who gets the opportunity to work with them will be better for it.

Apex Foundry Parent College Bridge → Stetson University
Also in the Forge {{ forgeOffers }} D1 Offers Top RB Prospect · Class of 2029
Coach Now · The Remote Method

The tape is the teacher.

Distance changes nothing. You film any rep, whether it’s practice, a game, or the backyard, and it lands in one place where every frame gets drawn on, slowed down, and stacked side‑by‑side against the pros. Same film, same eye, no matter where the athlete lives.

CoachNow
What is Coach Now?

The highest-rated coaching app in the world, trusted by over a million coaches and athletes. Your athlete gets their own private page where every rep is uploaded, slowed to the frame, annotated, and run through AI skeleton tracking that maps their biomechanics joint by joint. It’s how we coach movement as closely from across the country as we do in person.

Learn more at coachnow.com
Step 01

Film the rep

Upload any clip from anywhere: phone, Hudl, practice tape. No travel, no scheduling around a zip code.

Step 02

Coached on the tape

Telestration, slow-motion, frame by frame. Biomechanics broken down and laid side-by-side against NFL film.

Step 03

Yours to keep

Every breakdown lives on the athlete's Coach Now page. It’s a growing, position-specific library to revisit and reapply.

Inside an athlete's page

Read an actual lesson

A real breakdown from an athlete's Coach Now page, published in full: the Bluetooth Series, every catch point, and the technique behind all of it. Written for the athlete, open to parents.

See the full lesson →
Start the remote build Every athlete gets their own Coach Now page from day one.
The Pursuit

Chase the peak. Feed the forge.

The Apex Foundry standard means never stopping the climb: chasing the peak of the craft on the clinic floor, in install calls, and on the AFCA Convention stage. Every rep of learning gets carried back down the mountain and poured into the foundry: the technique, the knowledge, and the work that serve the kids forged here. Watch the climb.

Skills & Drills clinic, AFCA Convention
AFCA Convention · Broadcast
Skills & Drills Clinic
American Football Coaches Association
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Two decades around development that sends players to Sundays, distilled into one repeatable standard you can watch being taught, not just described.

20 to NFL & CFL AFCA Speaker Buffalo · NDSU M.A. Sports Leadership
Apex Foundry
The Coaching Path
Influences, philosophy & the road here
Apex Foundry
Zoom Installs
Live scheme & technique, recorded
Book a Consult See the eye on your athlete's tape before you commit a dollar. More film on YouTube →
The Standard

No microwave.
Slow cook. Course correct.

A player is not built in a weekend camp or a highlight you bought. Traits hold when they are built slowly and corrected every single week. We do not microwave a player. We forge one.

A season is not one setting. In-season is the smartest workload of all, because the games are the work: we protect the body, refine fundamentals, and course-correct off the tape instead of grinding athletes down in extra sessions. Each phase gets its own plan.

Offseason · Dec–Mar

Build

The heavy development window. Strength, mechanics, and top-end speed rebuilt from the ground up. The biggest gains are made here.

Load
Film / IQ

Summer · Apr–Aug

Sharpen

Volume and conditioning to survive camp. Routes get crisp, the body gets game-ready. The College Bridge window for athletes reporting to campus.

Load
Film / IQ
Smarter, Not Harder

In-Season · Aug–Nov

Refine & Hold

The games are the work. We refine fundamentals, manage fatigue, and fix Friday's tape before next Friday. Smarter workloads protect the gains instead of grinding them away.

Load
Film / IQ

Post-Season · Nov–Dec

Evaluate & Reset

Grade the full body of work, build the highlight tape, and set the next cycle. The transfer portal window for athletes on the move.

Load
Film / IQ
6‑Mo
Minimum commitment, long enough for the grade to move
365
Year-round, the work never fully stops
48h
Audit turnaround, filmed reps back with voiceover

The programs below map to the calendar.

The Tracks

Matched to the athlete, not the calendar.

A year-round track for the athlete who lives near the field, a remote lab for the one who doesn't, and focused programs for the moments that decide a career. Every engagement starts with a consult, where the fit and the investment get matched to the athlete. Tap any track for the full breakdown.

01 · Year-Round Development

02 · Specialized Programs

Focused, defined-window blocks for the specific moments that decide a career.

8-Week Intensive
College Bridge Program

HS seniors who are committed

An 8-week pre-college intensive so a freshman arrives ready, not a step behind.

See the breakdown
In Transition
Transfer Portal Package

Portal athletes between programs

Coaching, structure, and film for the athlete in transition.

See the breakdown
Cognitive Block
Injury IR · The Virtual Film Room

Sidelined / injured athletes

Tripled classroom hours that build the game from the neck up while the body heals.

See the breakdown
Foundation
Youth Performance & Tactical IQ

Middle / early-HS (7th grade+)

Build the right movement and football IQ early — before bad habits ever set in.

See the breakdown
The Method

The Apex Evaluation Model

Most training is felt. This is measured. Film is the first word, not the last: production in competition sets the grade, and the measurables confirm, cap, or elevate it. They never replace it.

No guaranteed outcomes. A documented body of work, graded the same way every time, that recruits on its own behalf.

Apex Evaluation Model

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Projection · D1 Scholarship Floor
Magnitude · Placement7 / 10
Mastery · Reliability.4 / .9
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The Pipeline

Film
Production
Controlled Work
Capability
Measurables
The Body
Translation
Carryover
Grade
The Number
MagnitudeThe Whole Number
1–10

Placement. Where the athlete would line up on a college roster today. Film sets it; the body confirms, caps, or elevates.

MasteryThe Decimal
.1–.9

Reliability. How much of that level the athlete actually commands: technique, hands, awareness, and consistency, rep to rep.

Together they produce one grade and a projection. Magnitude is where they play right now. Mastery is how reliably they win there. Every grade is anchored to the trait holding the athlete back, and explains exactly why they are not higher.

To the League

Quiet work.
Pro results.

// a coaching background, not a guarantee of any athlete's outcome

Grey Zabel
Seahawks OL / G · 2025 Draft · Rd 1 (#18)
Cody Mauch
Buccaneers OL / G · 2023 Draft · Rd 2 (#48)
Charlie Jones
Bengals WR · 2023 Draft · Rd 4 (#131)
Bryce Lance
Saints WR · 2025 Draft · Rd 4 (#136)
Cole Payton
Eagles QB · 2026 Draft · Rd 5 (#178)
KJ Osborn
Vikings · Patriots WR · 2020 Draft · Rd 5 (#176)
Cam Miller
Raiders · Dolphins QB · 2025 Draft · Rd 6 (#215)
Mike Washington
Steelers WR / RB · UDFA · 2009
Tyree Jackson
Eagles · Giants · Vikings TE / QB · UDFA · 2019
Anthony Johnson
Buccaneers · Chargers WR · UDFA · 2019
Cam Lewis
Bills · Bears DB / CB · UDFA · 2019
Jimmy O'Hagan
Bills OL · UDFA · 2019
Tyler Mabry
Seahawks TE · UDFA · 2020
Jaret Patterson
Commanders · Chargers RB · UDFA · 2021
Antonio Nunn
Bills WR · UDFA · 2021
Kevin Marks
Chargers RB · UDFA · 2022
Hunter Luepke
Cowboys FB · UDFA · 2023
Jalen Sundell
Seahawks OL / C · UDFA · 2024
Shaun Dolac
Rams LB · UDFA · 2025
Zach Mathis
Edmonton Elks · CFL WR

Mentored By

The coaches behind Apex Foundry came up in these rooms, the staffs that shaped the method. Their current roles:

LL
Lance Leipold
Head Coach · Kansas
DB
David Braun
Head Coach · Northwestern
ME
Matt Entz
Head Coach · Fresno State
AK
Andy Kotelnicki
Assoc. Head Coach · Kansas
TR
Tyler Roehl
Offensive Coordinator · Iowa State
NP
Noah Pauley
Wide Receivers Coach · Green Bay Packers
JC
Jim Catanzaro
Head Coach · Lake Forest College

Coaching Stops

Buffalo NDSU Brockport Concordia Chicago

Education

M.A. Sports Leadership M.A. Education
How It Runs

From first consult to verified record.

01

Consult

A working session over Microsoft Teams. Tape reviewed, goals set, tier matched to the athlete.

02

Baseline

The Apex Evaluation Model establishes the starting grade. The number that everything after is measured against.

03

Forge

Filmed field sessions, 48-hour audits, weekly grading. The body of work compounds rep by rep.

04

Prove

A sortable, season-long highlight library and a documented grade trend. Proof a coach can act on.

Coach P and an athlete talking things through between reps

Most of it happens between the reps.

Quiet Work. Loud Results.

Build the record.

Roster is intentionally limited so every athlete is filmed, tracked, and verified to standard. Every request is reviewed personally.

Request received.

Every request is personally reviewed, and we'll be in touch within 48 hours.

Filmed. Tracked. Verified.

A short intake so we understand the athlete before we talk. It takes a few minutes, and every submission is reviewed personally.

Athlete Basic Information
Football Background
Athletic Profile
Training Goals
Not serious All in
Training Format & Availability
Social Media & Film
Parent / Guardian Information
Final Questions & Confirmation
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No public pricing. The right tier and investment are matched to the athlete in your consult.