Algonquin, Illinois
Sports performance
training for
Algonquin athletes.
GPS is in Lake in the Hills, directly next door — and we train athletes from across the Fox Valley and McHenry County. Every athlete who trains here is tested, re-tested every two weeks, and reported growth-adjusted — every result read against athletes the same age, so you can see where they stand against the athletes they actually compete against.
The local picture
A short drive,
a long season.
Algonquin sits on the Lake in the Hills border, and its athletes are split across three high schools — Jacobs on the west side and Dundee-Crown covering the east, both in District 300, plus Huntley in District 158, which takes the far western edge of the village. All three compete in the IHSA, and all three run demanding in-season calendars.
Algonquin is where this page points, but it is not the boundary. GPS trains athletes out of every school in the Fox Valley Conference — all ten, spanning five districts — along with Barrington. For most of them the facility is a fifteen-minute drive or less.
That matters because the hardest problem in youth athletic development is not finding work to do. It is deciding what a specific athlete should be doing given everything already on their schedule — practices, games, lifting the school already assigns, and a body that is still growing underneath all of it.
GPS is built to answer that question with data rather than opinion. We assess first, prescribe from the assessment, and then prove whether the prescription worked. See how the programs are structured →
Why parents here ask us first
A thirteen-year-old gets faster
doing nothing.
Any facility can test your athlete in September, test them again in December, and show you a better number. In a growing athlete, some of that improvement was going to happen anyway. A comparison group that is growing over the same window at least shows you whether your athlete moved relative to the athletes they compete against.
Assess before prescribing
Force, sprint, and strength testing produce an archetype and a set of priority qualities — then the plan follows from that, not from a package.
Re-test every two weeks
Same gates, same protocol, same order. A trend line only means something if the measurement never changes underneath it.
Report standing, not just the gain
Your report shows what changed by more than the test's own margin of error, and where that leaves your athlete against our tested reference set for their age — currently male baseball athletes.
Algonquin families ask
Straight answers,
locally.
The questions we get most often from parents on the Algonquin side of the border.
01 How far is GPS from Algonquin?
GPS is at 9210 Trinity Dr in Lake in the Hills — the next town over, sharing a border with Algonquin. For most Algonquin families it is a short drive that fits either side of a school-day schedule, which matters more than it sounds when training runs twice a week for twelve weeks.
02 Do you train athletes from Jacobs, Dundee-Crown, and Huntley?
Yes — and from every other school in the Fox Valley Conference. Algonquin families feed into three high schools: Jacobs and Dundee-Crown in District 300, and Huntley in District 158, which covers the far west side of the village. We also train athletes out of Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South, Prairie Ridge, Cary-Grove, McHenry, Hampshire and Burlington Central, plus Barrington. GPS trains athletes independently of any school program: we build the off-season and in-season plan around the athlete’s actual sport calendar, and we coordinate load rather than compete with what their school coach is asking of them.
03 My athlete already trains with their school team. Is this redundant?
No, and the difference is the measurement. A school program trains a roster to a shared standard on a shared calendar. GPS assesses your athlete individually, prescribes a dose from that assessment, and re-tests every two weeks — so you can see whether what they are doing is actually producing change. Most of our work is deciding what a specific athlete should be doing given everything else already on their plate.
04 What ages do you take from the Algonquin area?
Group training runs in two tracks — Emerging Athlete for ages 8–12 and Athlete Development for 13 and up, through high school and college — plus fully individualized private coaching at any level. The GPS Blueprint assessment determines which track fits.
05 How do we start?
Every athlete starts with the GPS Blueprint: force, sprint, and strength testing that produces their archetype, their priority qualities, and a prescribed plan. It is $199 and credited in full when you enroll. Book a free consult first if you would rather talk it through before testing.
Start here
It always begins
with the GPS Blueprint.
$199 for a full performance assessment — credited in full when you enroll. Test first. Then we build the plan.
Book the GPS Blueprint9210 Trinity Dr · Lake in the Hills, IL 60156 · (224) 435-4224