Jackie Ansley
For two decades, Jackie Ansley has been involved in enriching athletes in all sports of multiple levels, first as a standout basketball player, later as an accomplished prep coach, and most recently as the innovative director of a specialized exercise conditioning program endorsed by some of the leading athletes and coaches around the world.
Since founding her companies, Sports Excel in 1998 and Performance Training, Inc., in 1995, Ansley has been a sought-after clinician and speaker. The premise behind her training programs is to increase and utilize speed, agility and quickness in training and athletic performance. Her dynamic and innovative approach to training has taken her across the country as a guest presenter for such groups as the 1997-2002 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) National Convention and the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) veterans training camps and combine for future WNBA players, 2001 and 2002 AAHPERD Regional Convention, and the 1999 Cramer Conference for Olympic athletes and coaches in Japan among others.
The WNBA has utilized Ansley’s services since the beginning of the league for many of the team’s training camps, as a consultant to their training mission, along with the Veterans Camp each year. Among her women’s professional basketball clients have been superstars Lisa Leslie, Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Weatherspoon, Chamique Holdsclaw, Katie Smith, Tamecka Dixon, Jennifer Azzi, Tamika Catchings, Coco Miller and Michelle Snow. In all, Ansley has tutored over 120 professional women’s basketball players in her training system.
Ansley’s training techniques have also been utilized by some of the top collegiate women’s basketball teams in the nation including six-time national champion University of Tennessee, Cal-Santa Barbara, University of Illinois, Xavier, North Carolina State, Penn State, Purdue, Virginia Tech, Arizona, Duke and Stanford just to mention a few.
In addition to her own companies and personal consultation and training in Knoxville, Tennessee, Ansley has most currently expanded into a new facility in Suwanee, GA called the Suwanee Sports Academy and has been providing training in Orlando, FL for three years. Ansley also is responsible for designing and directing the Sports Excel Program in Knoxville and Pigeon Forge with Fort Sanders Health & Fitness Center for a member base of over 15,000 individuals. Ansley has developed programs and worked with athletes from the middle school age all the way through to the professional ranks of various sports. She has developed programs and training regimens for a variety of athletes including baseball, football, hockey, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, tri-athletes, boxers, and volleyball competitors. Most recently Ansley has had the opportunity to work with the Women’s Heavyweight World Titleholder, Vonda Ward, and design footwork drills for her explosiveness and foot speed while also spending time training the University of Tennessee’s football team, University of Tennessee soccer team and the 2001-2002 IPFL Championship Football Team, the Tennessee Thunder Cats, designing their entire strength and conditioning program to help bring home the "Trophy".
From 1996-2000, Ansley was a Speed, Agility, and Quickness (S.A.Q.) Specialist for Nike, Inc. and from 2000 to the present she is one of two athletes representing Adidas in delivering Speed, Agility, and Quickness presentations throughout the United States for athletes, teams and corporations. Ansley has toured the country and broadened herself to international trips for lectures and hands on training while conducting clinics for Speed, Agility, and Quickness.
Before she entered the world of fitness training, Ansley was an exceptional high school coach. In the coaching arena, she combined her love of teaching and instruction of the game serving as an accomplished high school coach for nine years. She turned Central High School (Knoxville, Tenn.) into a team to be reckoned with and while at Sevier County High School (Sevierville, Tenn.) her teams advanced to the Tennessee State Sports Athletic Association tournament.
While at Sevier County H.S., Ansley’s teams were nationally ranked and among some of the best in the state of Tennessee. Her teams were often found traveling to prestigious high school tournaments across the nation. She led her teams to several district 4AAA, regional 3AAA and tournament championships; attaining "Coach of the Year" accolades for five consecutive years. Seventeen high school student-athletes who were under the tutelage of Ansley received college scholarships with over half going into NCAA Division I programs.
As a collegiate hoopster she was the starting point guard for Virginia Tech (1981-84) where she received a slew of honors including Athlete of the Year. In 1983, she was invited to participate in the United States Pan American Basketball Games team trials and training camp. A top student as well, Ansley was a Dean’s List honoree while earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics Education from Virginia Tech in 1985.
Visit Jackie Ansley's company website at PerformanceTrainingInc.com.
