Why is the USA so successful throughout the world of sport?
CJ: The United States is a country that has a passion and desire for sport. If you look at any list, anywhere around the world, you’ll always see someone from the USA at the very highest level. They invest a lot of time and effort in producing great sports stars. They have a great collegiate system, where a lot of the stars begin their career, and they move on into the international circuit. There are so many facilities that budding stars are really encouraged to achieve their goals. RYG: How do you know if an athlete has what it takes to go all the way? CJ: That’s a hard question. With my athletes the first test I did was to see if they had any passion for their sport – to find out how much they really wanted to achieve. Did they just talk about achievement as something that was easy to come by or were they willing to work hard at it? I started with some really general questions about time and effort, their lifestyle, their dedication to achieving their goal, their expectations of the
