Our Story
  Meet our founder, Nicky Caprio

Nicky fell in love with sports at a young age, with hockey quickly becoming his sole passion. He competed at a high level and traveled the world chasing his dream until an injury at 18 abruptly ended his career.

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Overnight, he lost more than the game, he lost who he was as a person. "When I stopped playing, I didn't just lose hockey, I felt like I lost my identity and struggled for years trying to figure out who I was outside of the sport." What followed were some of the toughest years of his life, but also some of the most important years. Nicky pulled himself out of those dark days and has since gone through many of life's adversities both personally and professionally. By coaching his former team, he rediscovered his passion and, in that time, he discovered something bigger: athletes everywhere were struggling with the same challenges of confidence, pressure, identity, and life beyond the game. That is when everything clicked!

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Iron Minds Coaching was built to develop more than athletes, it's built to develop resilient, confident individuals who can handle adversity in sport and in life. We train our athletes to dominate, to compete, and to win at the highest level. But, eventually the game ends no matter who you are, and when adversity hits hard, the ones who are prepared don't fold. They respond, adapt, and they come back stronger.

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Adversity is coming, and those who are prepared don't break, they rise.