10/23/2026
Martin Coe, this week's Active Life podcast guest, has been an athlete since he can remember. At the age of four, his father introduced him to sports in the backyard with a wiffle ball and bat. What began with baseball, football, and basketball evolved into a lifelong passion for competition, learning, and improvement.
A standout tennis player for more than 46 years, Martin competed at many levels and was the #1 ranked player in CO for consecutive years. In a spur-of-the-moment decision, he auditioned to play tennis at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he played #1 singles & doubles for three years, culminating in his 2011 induction into the MSU Athletic Hall of Fame. Nowadays, he has shifted many of his skills to the pickleball court.
Martin has also built a remarkable career as a Systems Engineering expert, helping design and manufacture medical technologies including pulse oximeters, ventilators, hemodialysis machines and a robotic gene-sequencing system that made the Human Genome Project possible. Whether solving engineering challenges or studying an opponent's game on the court, Martin believes success comes from the same closed-loop process: observe, understand, learn, apply, adapt, and keep improving.
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Martin Coe has been an athlete since he can remember. At the age of four, his father introduced him to sports in the backyard with a wiffle ball and bat. What began with baseball, football, and basketball evolved into a lifelong passion for compet...
