You’re On Athletic Development

Specialties

Specializes in improving speed and agility for all sports working with football, basketball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse. Track & field technique for ALL running and field events. Long jump, hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot put, discus, javelin, hammer, pole vault. Whatever your sport, we will help you get faster, quicker and if you are a track & field athlete, we can make you the very best you can possible be AND do it much faster than most coaches are able to do it.

History

Established in 2009.

Gary Bastien has 10 years NCAA Division I coaching experience having developed Division I qualifiers in the the throwing events and the decathlon. As an athlete, Gary was U.S. and world ranked, with the third highest score in the United States in 1983, and was an 11 time NCAA Division I, USOC, AAU national qualifier and U.S. team member. This included being a member of the the 1983 Pan American Games team and qualifying for the 1984 U.S. Olympic trials. From this background, Gary learned his craft as a coach and started You’re On Athletic Development to give high school and advanced junior athletes access to elite level coaching. So, in 2009, Gary’s College team mate, Mark Gardner, who has several years working with youth athletics as both an official and coach, started You’re On Athletic Development to give kids more personal coaching to both supplement their school team training and to simply provide training for athletes lacking sufficiently staffed track & field teams.

Meet the Business Owner

Mark G.

Business Owner

Mark Gardner ran at Eastern Michigan University andw as on championship sprint relays while captain of the team in 1981. Upon retirement from running, he returned to his home town of Dearborn, Michigan. Over the next 30 years Mark volunteered and worked with youth sports on the club, junior high and high school levels for basketball, football and track & field as both an official and as a coach. Over the years, Mark was approached by parents wanting specialized, one-​on-​one training. You’re On Athletic Development was born to meet this need when partnered with Gary Bastien. Bastien is known for his simple, positive coaching style that emphasizes distilling several movements down to 4 – 5 KEY concepts. Together Mark & Gary have also been able to use many of the track & field training concepts to improve speed & agility of athletes in all sports be it football, basketball, baseball, soccer lacrosse or hockey.