411 on Coach X

Coach X possesses over 15 years of experience in dance, cheerleading, gymnastics, step, modeling, and ROTC. His love for such began in elementary school during his 6th grade year when a local high school band conducted a performance visit and, in that moment, his was bitten by the “dance bug” and began to take up an array of books, visuals, and anything relative to nurture his thirst on the knowledge and dance.

During his student tenure at Fairmont Heights High School, he was the Drum Major of the Marching Stingers, captain of the technical dance team, as well as a member of the band dance, step, modeling, and ROTC team. Post high school graduation, he knew his connection to dance was not to simply perform, but to educate. In addition to being a full-time teacher for his local school system, he elected to attend Eastern Gateway Community College, Central State University, and Bowie State University all of which to gain his credits and collegiate degrees in Teacher Education, General Arts, Primary Education, and Early childhood/ Special Education, Psychology with minors such as Spanish and Sign Language Communication, graduating with the highest honors.

All of which aided him whilst he cumulatively served as the Co-Coach of both the G. James Gholson Middle School junior varsity and varsity dance & cheer teams, Head Coach of Columbia Park Community Center afterschool dance program, and Head Coach of Kentland Community Center dance class intensives, where would stand in for the absence of fellow coaches that were previous NBA team dancers that provided classes like tap, jazz-funk, and so on. In this time is where he amassed a number of certifications that include, but are not limited to: Athlete Protection, Coaching Athletes with Disabilities, USA Cheer, USASF, NFHS, Alixa Flexibility, PGCPS Safe Schools, Fentanyl Awareness, Concussion, Cardiac Arrest, CPR, AED, First Aid, Stop the Bleed training, and over 2,000+ hours of community service hours.

For long assisting other programs by consulting in the nature of choreography, creative, revenue, finances, nonprofit status, and more, he longed to put his savvy for youth, mentorship, charitable affairs, and business to use, in turn he curated his own program for the community to fill in the gaps that he experience as a youth due to being underserved and gender-biased from accessing dance. Now here we are with the nonprofit community dance program that is 1101 Dance Academy, Inc., set in place since November 1, 2010, to educate underserved youth that have high hopes and seemingly higher negative pillars around them to lift them up and break down those pillars to use them as steppingstones to their goals. He currently still does all things of this nature through the support of the community, students, and his coaching philosophy in the 5 P’s: “Prior preparation prevents poor performance.”