Owners: Lance Miller, director and physical therapist, and M. Shannon O’Kelley.
What: Everett Physical Therapy and Sports Performance Center is the full-meal deal for athletes. Weekend warriors and professional athletes alike come here for injury screening, physical therapy, sports massage, and strength and conditioning. The business serves the Everett Silvertips hockey team and the Everett Hawks indoor football team as well as area college and high school programs. They work with folks who have non-sports related injuries, too.
Quotable: “We see everyone from the 8-year-old figure skater to 80-year-old golfers,” said director Lance Miller.
Notable: Miller, a former U.S. Marine and a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, studied physical therapy on the G.I. Bill. He played football at O’Dea High School in Seattle and later for the Marine Corps.
Location: Everett Physical Therapy is in a 3,600-square-foot office in the Everett Events Center, 2000 Hewitt Ave., Suite 115. A separate Sports Performance Center is down the street at 1502 Hewitt Ave., in an old brick building that used to house a Chinese restaurant. The remodeled 6,500-square-foot space features weights, exercise bikes, medicine balls and the like as well as a space lined with Astroturf large enough to accommodate entire teams.
Employees: Everett Physical Therapy and Sports Performance Center employs 10, including certified strength and conditioning specialists, athletic trainers, personal trainers and two sports massage practitioners.
Coach’s perspective: The Everett Community College men’s baseball team has done its strength and conditioning training at the center for three years. Before, the team bought memberships at a local gym and coaches developed programs. Now the team pays about $15,000 a year, a big cost savings, said John Jackson, assistant coach. “You couldn’t go to Gold’s Gym and get 40 memberships for that price,” he said. And Miller, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, leads the team through exercises designed to enhance strength, agility and speed. Jackson said the center has served as a valuable recruiting tool.
Weekend warriors: Adult athletes not associated with a team can get training at an hour-long Sport Conditioning Class offered Monday and Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. It costs $12 a session.
Tomato man: The business uses the silhouette of a red man as its logo. The staff calls him the “tomato man” because of his color. “Hopefully, he’ll be like the Nike symbol someday,” Miller said.
More information: 425-252-3908, or the company’s Web site.
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