Jackie Ansley
CEO/Owner/Performance Coach
For three 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. (PTI), 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 (SAQ) in training and athletic performance. Her dynamic and innovative approach to training has taken her across the country as a clinician, speaker and presenter for such groups as the 1997-2009 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) National Convention, 2009 NSCAA, the 1998-2000, 1999 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) veterans training camps and combine for future WNBA players, 2001, 2002 AAHPERD Regional Convention, and the 1999 Cramer Conference for Olympic athletes and Polish Basketball Federation June 2009. She is also serving as the Asseco Prokom Basketball Club (Euro teams) Trainer 2009-2010 and is a consultant to Nike.
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, Ivory Latta, Kara Lawson, Monqiue Currie, Chamique Holdsclaw, Sue Bird, Katie Smith, Alexis Hornbuckle, Tamecka Dixon, Candace Parker, Jennifer Azzi, Tamika Catchings, Coco Miller, Lindsay Harding, 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 eight-time national champion University of Tennessee, Cal-Santa Barbara, University of Illinois, Xavier, North Carolina State, Penn State, Purdue, Old Dominion, 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 expanded into a facility in Suwanee, GA called the Suwanee Sports Academy. Ansley and PTI are responsible for training at three locations in Knoxville, Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center, 180 Sports and Fitness and Cherokee Country Club. 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 basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, tri-athletes, boxers, and volleyball competitors. 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 ThunderCats, designing their entire strength and conditioning program to help bring home the "Trophy.”
In 2009, Ansley signed to be a premier provider of Nike’s SPARQ training system and is representing and training throughout the United States for Nike athletes, teams and corporations. Ansley has toured the country and broadened herself to international trips for lectures and hands on training while conducting camps, clinics and individual training in SAQ.
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 among some of the best in the state of Tennessee as well as being nationally ranked . 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 multiple years. Fourteen 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.
CEO/Owner/Performance Coach
For three 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. (PTI), 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 (SAQ) in training and athletic performance. Her dynamic and innovative approach to training has taken her across the country as a clinician, speaker and presenter for such groups as the 1997-2009 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) National Convention, 2009 NSCAA, the 1998-2000, 1999 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) veterans training camps and combine for future WNBA players, 2001, 2002 AAHPERD Regional Convention, and the 1999 Cramer Conference for Olympic athletes and Polish Basketball Federation June 2009. She is also serving as the Asseco Prokom Basketball Club (Euro teams) Trainer 2009-2010 and is a consultant to Nike.
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, Ivory Latta, Kara Lawson, Monqiue Currie, Chamique Holdsclaw, Sue Bird, Katie Smith, Alexis Hornbuckle, Tamecka Dixon, Candace Parker, Jennifer Azzi, Tamika Catchings, Coco Miller, Lindsay Harding, 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 eight-time national champion University of Tennessee, Cal-Santa Barbara, University of Illinois, Xavier, North Carolina State, Penn State, Purdue, Old Dominion, 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 expanded into a facility in Suwanee, GA called the Suwanee Sports Academy. Ansley and PTI are responsible for training at three locations in Knoxville, Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center, 180 Sports and Fitness and Cherokee Country Club. 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 basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, tri-athletes, boxers, and volleyball competitors. 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 ThunderCats, designing their entire strength and conditioning program to help bring home the "Trophy.”
In 2009, Ansley signed to be a premier provider of Nike’s SPARQ training system and is representing and training throughout the United States for Nike athletes, teams and corporations. Ansley has toured the country and broadened herself to international trips for lectures and hands on training while conducting camps, clinics and individual training in SAQ.
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 among some of the best in the state of Tennessee as well as being nationally ranked . 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 multiple years. Fourteen 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.