06/12/2026
🚨 ☠️ Welcome to the Blackshirt Family - Kennadi Marion
We have a ton of great leaders. Our brand is creating great humans and not just great athletes. We believe everyone can lead no matter how introverted shy or skilled they are at their sport.
But out of 2000+ kids, we only have 20ish Blackshirts.
The blackshirt is our highest leadership award. It’s earned, not given. Athletes must train year round 2+ times/week. They represent all of our core standards of attitude, effort, tempo, and positive energy at training, practice, the grocery store, everywhere.
The type of kid who comes early, always finishes the workout, and helps a new athlete feel at home.
They invest fully into the workout. Understanding the goals, they do the tempos, they stick the landings, they start behind the lines and finish the sprints through them. Relentless detail.
This isn’t a yearly vote. Athletes have to force the conversation by upholding the standard so consistently they force a nomination by a coach to get on a watch list. And then once we are confident they’re ready for the responsibility they get the shirt.
Why all this for a T-shirt? Because it’s not about the T-shirt.
When she started her exit velocity was high 50s & low 60s, and she had never hit a homerun. Now exit velo is low 70s and this past high school season she hit 5!