07/05/2026
It is with profound sadness that we share the news that one of our most beloved MaxWay members, Brian Ross, died unexpectedly on Monday, June 29th.
To our MaxWay members, and to our Greenland community as a whole, the loss of Brian will be felt forever. I believe this will be something that most people won't have the words to fully articulate how they feel, and this is a testament to how much Brian truly meant to everyone in our community and the positive impact he made on every person he encountered.
If you were to ask a random person on the street to imagine what they think a State Trooper looks like in their heads, and then showed a picture of Brian in uniform, it is almost guaranteed that they'd be like: "Yup! That's who I was picturing!" But Brian can be described in so many other ways: the best friend, the best Dad, the nicest man, a gentle giant, and overall just the "the best". Whether he was in costume walking around on Halloween or in full State Police motorcycle attire, it was always a better time when Brian was around.
Brian and the boys have been members at MaxWay for just over 3 years, and Brian, in that time frame, amassed over 350 training sessions. That's no easy feat in and of itself, but especially when you are training at 5am. Other than the time of morning, there is one other downside side of waking up at 5am to workout, and it's that sometimes your Coach has been up long enough that their caffeine is on full tilt, and now said Coach (PJ) has 4,543 questions on just as many topics... and God love Brian for laughing and nodding and appeasing all of those questions every single time.
One morning that sticks out the most is when a question came up about "Would you rather be tased or pepper sprayed?"... Long story short, it came out that Brian had never deployed his taser (the other joke was that Chaz set the record for PPD), but I was amazed that he had never deployed it, and then just assumed it was because as soon as the criminals saw Brian, they just complied, or it was his calming manner, or maybe just the patience of a Saint.
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