Payton Pritchard Basketball Camps: The Training System That Helped Build an NBA Champion
There’s a question I get asked a lot: Why do you run basketball camps? The honest answer is simple — because someone built me up, and now it’s my turn to build others up. I didn’t wake up one day in the NBA. I got here drill by drill, rep by rep, starting long before […]
Why Payton Pritchard Started These Camps and What Makes Them Unlike Any Other
Most camps teach players what to do. This one teaches players how to work. That is a different thing entirely. There are a lot of basketball camps out there. A lot of them carry a professional player’s name on the flyer, offer a full day of drills, and send young players home with a t-shirt […]
The Moment You See It: How Training Built a Leader Nobody Had to Ask For
There was no announcement. No captain’s meeting. No vote. At some point during the Team FAST years, the players around Payton Pritchard simply started doing what he did. That is when Terry knew something real was happening. Picture a gym in Oregon. Early morning. Most kids that age are still asleep. Payton Pritchard is already […]
From Oregon City to the West Coast: How Team FAST Was Born and What It Built
Terry Pritchard did not set out to build a program. He set out to teach young players the right way to work. The program was what happened when people saw what the work produced. The FAST clinics in Oregon City started small. Terry Pritchard teaching basketball fundamentals to young players, one session at a time, […]
Always FAST: The Training Philosophy That Built Payton Pritchard and Powers the Foundation
Every rep is more than a rep. Every drill is more than a drill. The FAST system was built on the belief that mastering the fundamentals of anything creates the foundation for excellence in everything. Long before the Payton Pritchard Family Foundation had a name, it had a philosophy. And that philosophy had an acronym. […]
The Phone Call That Changed Everything: Anthony Mathis and the Pritchard Family
Sometimes the most important moments in life don’t announce themselves. They arrive as a phone call from a coach who saw something in a young boy that was too good to ignore. You now know where the Payton Pritchard Family Foundation comes from. Terry winning a national championship at Oklahoma. Melissa winning championships in gymnastics. […]
The Record Holder and the Belief That Changed Everything
In the Pritchard family, “anything is possible” was never a motivational phrase. It was a standard. And it was backed by people who had already proved it. Last week we talked about Terry and Melissa. A national championship tight end. A Big 8 gymnastics champion. Two people who built a household around the conviction that […]
Born Into It: The Championship Family Behind Payton Pritchard
Every great player has a story before the story. Payton Pritchard’s starts in Norman, Oklahoma, with two champions who decided that excellence was not an achievement. It was a standard. Before the NBA. Before the University of Oregon. Before the West Linn gym and the thousands of hours and the recruits who overlooked him, there […]
Reading the Game: What Payton Pritchard Teaches Us About Knowing Your Role and Owning It
The best players don’t just play their position. They read what the moment needs and deliver it. That’s not a lesser skill. That’s the highest one. There’s a misconception in sports, and in life, that the most important person on the floor is the one who starts. That visibility equals value. That the opening lineup […]