Today we’d like to introduce you to Shae & Barry Sims and Heather Walker. Them and their team share their story with us below:
West Jordan, UT: Athletic Republic West Jordan is thrilled to announce the new ownership, Barry and Shae Sims. The Sims’ have spent the last 20+ years living in the Bay Area, CA supporting the exciting and longstanding 12-year NFL Career, Raiders, and 49ers, of Barry Sims. Barry Sims, a local Utah native, grew up in the Wasatch Mountains skiing and playing multiple high school sports. Barry, Shae, and family have moved back to Utah to raise their family along with opening Athletic Republic Training centers in Park City and now West Jordan!
Shae Sims, a smart and savvy female business owner of Athletic Republic Park City and now West Jordan has previously worked in the Acceleration Sports Training industry when she worked at The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital, and their early adoption of the Acceleration training program now known as Athletic Republic. This is the story of where two friends met and have blossomed over the last 25 years. Shae met her now best friend and business general manager of Athletic Republic Park City and West Jordan Heather Walker at TOSH in 1998. The two friends studied the same undergraduate degree of Exercise Physiology from the University of Utah and then both went on to pursue Master’s of Business Administration degrees.
The two friends have a wealth of business experience and sports training knowledge and have brought their two different but similar backgrounds together to build a powerhouse team of female leadership. Shae, while managing her husband’s professional athletic career with contracts, endorsements, and public appearances, also ran multiple businesses such as her storage and construction businesses, participated with multiple nonprofit foundations, and sat on many executive boards of organizations.
Heather has ample business and healthcare experience as a former Director of Rehabilitation managing over 50 locations of long-term care facilities in the western region of the US. Her athletic background was a D1 NCAA scholarship athlete and ski raced for the prestigious University of Utah ski team program, which has 15 NCAA championships. She also played on the semi-professional soccer team for the inaugural Utah Spiders. She was an alpine ski racing coach for 20+ years and coached girls high school soccer for Olympus High School.
Shae and Heather are a dynamic duo that work like Yin and Yang. They both possess strengths that enable them to cover all areas of running a successful business. Shae and Heather have proven that with the ongoing success of their Athletic Republic Park City location. Within this past year the Athletic Republic Park City location was awarded the “Game Changer” award amongst all of their other 85 Athletic Republic locations nationwide and worldwide.
Athletic Republic West Jordan, under Shae and Heather’s management, will look to become a “Game Changer” for the area and its athletes it is serving. It will change lives for the better by offering our Acceleration and Sports Performance Training for athletes as we provide opportunities for them to become Great athletes in their sport. Our adult fitness AR FIT program will change and improve the health, well-being, and fitness levels of all adults. Come on by and meet the owners, Barry and Shae Sims and definitely stop by to meet two extraordinary women in business who are a dynamic duo, Shae and Heather.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
There are always problems or challenges that come up in business; it is knowing best how to problem solve on your feet and continue to navigate the path. In our line of work, nothing Good or Great comes easy and you have to be disciplined to the process to put in the work to get better every day; we apply those same principals in our daily and business life.
It is great to have a business partner that gets you; when one of us is having an off day, we can sense and fill in where we need to fill in and get the important things done. It’s nice to be able to take a half ski day or go spend time with our kids at their school or athletic functions. In big corporate world those small value adds of doing life are harder to take. We work well with each other in making sure the important things in life, such as kids and fun ski day are put as a priority.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Athletic Republic West Jordan?
Athletic Republic West Jordan is a Sports Performance Training facility for athletes of all levels, and we also provide adult fitness programs of all abilities.
Athletes: Athletic Republic West Jordan delivers on-field success through science-based performance training protocols while tailoring their conditioning in the best possible manner for their sport. The training tools and programs are designed to take the athlete beyond ground-based training limitations, teaching the brain to send stronger, more precise signals to the muscles. This is the essence of what many experts call “neuromuscular training,” and we have pioneered its development through three decades of research and commitment to sports science principles. Our performance improvements are documented and proven.
Adults: Athletic Republic’s training for adults is based on the same evidence-based protocols and knowledge that we’ve used for over 30 years to train over one million competitive athletes. We’ve taken that same knowledge that we apply to building strength, speed, agility, stamina, and power in these athletes and tailored it to meet the needs of adults with a variety of goals—from getting in shape, losing weight, being better prepared for activities such as skiing, tennis, biking and the like—to those who simply want to feel stronger and healthier to meet life’s everyday challenges.
Our underlying mission is to tip the scales of sport in your favor. Whether it’s adding four inches of height on your vertical jump or subtracting 0.4 seconds from your 40-yard dash, if there is an advantage to be had, we’re the ones to find it. We’ve tested, studied, and perfected our training programs so you can improve your play and gain the confidence to win. Every individualized program is based on fundamental test data that identifies your strengths and targets your weaknesses. Our proven methods safely push you past your limits – increasing the competitive skills required to be a champion.
Most Proud moment of the Athletic Republic Brand: The entire Athletic Republic family is proud to share that brand athlete and USC quarterback Caleb Williams has been awarded The 88th Heisman Memorial Trophy. College Football’s most prestigious honors given out annually to the most outstanding college football player, Williams racked up 4,075 passing yards and a 66.1 completion percentage while leading the Trojans to an 11-2 record and the #10 National Seed. The Washington, D.C. native rushed for 372 yards this season, setting the single season record for most rushing yards by a USC quarterback, and securing the PAC12 Offensive Player of the Year, Walter Camp Player of the Year, All-American Team and the winner of the Maxwell Award, given to the best all-around player in college football, just to name a few. Details of the final Heisman voting results from Deloitte reveal Caleb Williams received 544 1st Place Votes ahead of #2 Max Duggan’s 188 votes, totaling an astounding 2,031 votes resulting in the 8th Heisman win for USC which breaks the record.
We want your readers to know we provide the best sports performance training, and it has been proven with our 30+ years of science, research, and ongoing success of athletes such as Caleb Williams winning the Heisman Trophy. We can provide that type of training at our Athletic Republic West Jordan location and those youth athletes can know when they train with us, they too can dream of winning a Heisman Trophy!
What matters most to you?
What matters most to Athletic Republic West Jordan is providing opportunities to youth athletes and adults to continue to better themselves every day. We will teach youth athletes and adults goal setting, staying committed to the daily grind of the process of getting better. We know in our industry it is NOT a magic pill, it is not instant gratification, and we teach those willing to stay the course how to grind it out, put in the work daily, and stay the path. As to why that matters, when you teach those skills, you teach lifelong skills of what it takes to be successful in life in anything you do. Those skill sets are applied to applying for their dream career or when things get rough in life it allows them to navigate the hard knowing it will get better.
Pricing:
- First Workout is FREE
- First Training Session is FREE
Contact Info:
- Website: https://westjordan.athleticrepublic.com/
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