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Running fast and jumping high aren't just about how much strength you have in your legs. New research has shown that your ability to fully contract your core muscles and then rapidly relax them is just as important.

Velocity Sports Performance-Willowbrook and Hinsdale School District 181 Foundation have teamed up to provide a Sports Performance and Fitness Expo.  Whether you are interested in becoming faster or looking to be more physically fit, this expo is perfect for students of all ages!  Read more for details on the fitness and sports performance expo...

Are you looking to become faster, stronger, more agile?  Are you trying to prepare for the upcoming season?  Train with Velocity in the months of November and December at a discounted price!

Are you considering sports performance training but wondering if it is right for you and/or your athlete? 

The finest basketball skills instruction in Chicago will be taking place at Velocity Willowbrook this fall.  Don't miss your chance to improve!

The school year is winding down and summer is coming...  Which means football season is right around the corner!!!

Velocity Sports Performance - Willowbrook will now be offering introductory speed and agility sessions for $10/session.  We had such a great turnout in February that we decided to continue for the month of March!

With non-contact periods coming and two-a-days right around the corner, stay in shape from summer workouts and prepare for the season with Nike SPARQ Performance training at Velocity Sports Performance!

Velocity Sports Performance-Willowbrook will be holding a two week Volleyball Skills camp.  Click "read more" for details."

Women are more prone than their male counterparts to specific injuries — namely knee injuries like tears of the ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament. A prevention program at the University of Cincinnati is aiming to curb these injuries in women.

Justin Tuck, defensive end for the reigning super bowl champ New York giants, discusses his training at the Mahwah, NJ Velocity Sports Performance.

The Va. Beach native who caught that incredible, game winning Super Bowl pass, was in Va. Beach Monday to help his mentor, Cadillac Harris, teach kids on the football field at the Velocity Sports Performance camp. 

Derrin Horton takes an in-depth look a the intense preparation NFL prospects go through to prepare for the combine.  These NFL prospects prepare in Velocity Sports Performance centers throughout the country with over 70 prospects training for the 2008 combine. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Michigan QB Chad Henne performs at the 2008 combine featuring an impressive effort in the passing drills. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Michigan QB Chad Henne stops by to chat with Scott Hanson about his NFL combine experience. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Notre Dame DT Trevor Laws demonstrates his strength and agility at the 2008 combine. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Notre Dame DT Trevor Laws discusses his performance at the 2008 combine. 

For the aspiring NFL player the ultimate job interview is coming up on February 20, 2008. They will be weighed, measured, tested, interviewed, filmed and challenged mentally. It’s the annual NFL Scouting Combine at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis. 

In today’s world of sport participation, the question isn’t should an athlete engage in  physical training but instead how much time is appropriate to devote towards improving one’s speed, strength and agility?  At Velocity Sports Performance, we believe a year round approach is best when providing athletes with the greatest opportunity for success.  

Standout offense lineman to continue career in Big Ten Conference. York senior offensive lineman Neal Deiters got himself a nifty two-for-one deal recently.  Deiters, York’s standout left tackle, verbally committed to attend and play for Northwestern University in Evanston next season.  The 6-foot-8 inch Deiters narrowed his list of finalists down to Northwestern and Penn State.

    When head coach Eileen Asmussen searches for sr. leadership in 2007, there’s the potential for Fenwick’s Clare Liston and Colleen Quaid to fall into that category on a consistent basis.

    The hardest job Nazareth Academy’s girls volleyball coach Wayne Saunders has had in the past three years has been figuring out how to play Hilary Kluczynski.     That’s because Kluczynski, who transferred to Nazareth following Immaculate Heart of Mary’s closing, ahs been the team’s most consistent setter and outside hitter the past two years.  During both of those years, Kluczynski has improved steadily and is now the team leader on a squad looking to do big things now that the IHSA has expanded to four classes.

    Over the past three seasons, Lyons Township’s girls volleyball team has been a staple in IHSA supersectional play.     Unfortunately, LT’s season has ended all three years in the supersectional.  Through those three years, it’s also lost some solid volleyball players.

    Benet Academy ’s volleyball team has a new coach and a new outlook this year – one that includes aspirations of a state championship thanks to the newly reconfigured class system in the IHSA.     No longer will schools like Benet have to compete with schools two, three or even four times its size now that the IHSA has gone to four classes.

    A year ago, Hinsdale South put together a storybook run through the playoffs that ended with a spot in the Class AA Elite Eight.     Now the question is, can the Hornets recapture that magic in 2007?

    Downers Grove South’s Christine Bowe already has made an impact at the state level, placing fourth in the high jump in the Class AA track finals four months ago.     Now Bowe wants to help elevate the Mustangs’ volleyball team in its bid to make it downstate after a rare (by Downers South standards) two-year drought.

    As Nazareth Academy’s boys soccer team has grown the past couple of years, one of the main contributors to that turnaround has been Packy Conlon.     For four years, Conlon has solidified the Roadrunners’ back end and he helped them to a five-win campaign in 2006 – the team’s largest amount of wins in a very long time. 

    Santulli sisters will play now for Northwestern, Schneider onto Vandy.  Three players from the Hinsdale Central's 2007 Illinois High School Women's Lacrosse Association state championship team were selected as U.S. Lacrosse All-Americans.

As the popularity of sports performance training continues to explode, it is important to understand what separates Velocity Sports Performance from other options.  Is it our state of the art training facilities which rival even the biggest college and professional complexes?  Or maybe it is our programs which are scientifically designed to improve speed, power, and agility – the three pillars of athleticism.   

ACL injuries are one of the most prevalent - and devastating - injuries in basketball.  Lean how to avoid this serious injury through proper mechanics