EM Academics
Charter school for athletes
“Husband and wife, Ed and Mari Halstead know a thing or two about preparing young athletes to succeed in both sports and life. They founded Socal-based EM Speed & Power back in 2006, which has helped over 50,000 athletes become more explosive, faster, stronger, and more injury-resistant.”
“EM trained ballplayers have gone on to play for all 30 Major League Baseball organizations and nearly every top D1 college program imageable – not to mention training athletes from the NFL, MLS, NHL, and Olympians of numerous sports.”
“EM Academics is a 6th-12th grade program that joins accredited academic curriculums with elite sports performance training as an alternative to traditional schools. Students learn from credentialed educators both in-person and online every day.”
“…a program for and around the unique lives of competitive athletes — whose dynamic needs cannot often be met in traditional schools. Some features, like the program’s performance-optimized meal-prep options, yoga sessions, mental skill workshops, and utilizing local fields and courts for student practices, are rather obvious when talking about a school for serious athletes”
“Besides taking away the ability to spend family time together, such stress-inducing and sleep-depriving homework loads can actually hurt an athlete’s performance and development. And if an athlete is traveling with a club team to a week-long tournament (which happens throughout the year), such assignments can mount until student-athletes feel it’s impossible to catch up.”