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He currently serves as the Director of Communication for the Project and is the Editor of the Good Athlete Podcast. Alongside this, he is also an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach and Boy’s Volleyball Coach at New Trier High School as well as the Lead Coach of the Boy’s Volleyball program at Illinois Juniors Volleyball Club. He is very passionate about developing youth athletes from all different areas and continues to work in this capacity. In his free time, you can catch him playing volleyball, lifting weights, or simply enjoying time with close friends & family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b355d7185ede164bed77244/1588612655057-E9OB72VLHZBWJHVYSXDD/IMG_2367.jpg About Us - Alex Nadolna Alex Nadolna serves as the Director of Communications for The Good Athlete Project in addition to his role as Director of Strength and Conditioning at Saint Viator High School in Arlington Heights, IL. Alex has been with The Good Athlete Project since 2016. He is also the official “podcast guy” for The Good Athlete Podcast and Assistant Director of the Illinois High School Powerlifting Association. Alex graduated from Knox College in 2014 and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association. In his free time, Alex enjoys lifting weights, longboarding, and cooking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b355d7185ede164bed77244/1592868083523-CTMFEECDX3R53H1RJMC7/Dimitri%252BBio%252BPic%252B%2525232.jpg About Us - Dimitri Clarke Dimitri Clarke is a Strategic Pricing Associate with Uber Freight who also works as a youth and high school wrestling official for the greater Chicagoland area. Dimitri is passionate about his work at The Good Athlete Project because “it has given me an opportunity to give back through athletic engagement and encouragement. Teaching athletes life lessons through something they enjoy is how I hope to continue giving back to my community here in Illinois and back home as well.” He’s originally from Springfield, MA where was a 3-sport athlete in High School. He attended Northeastern University in Boston, MA where he majored in Economics with a minor in Business Administration. He also participated in and coached for the club wrestling program for 4 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b355d7185ede164bed77244/1588612721506-1NE7TSXLPSCNTRU4VBWZ/Pacman.jpg About Us - Rijad Pekmez Rijad Pekmez is a full-time athletics assistant at New Trier Township High School. He also an assistant strength & conditioning coach, a football coach, and a co-sponsor for the Powerlifting Club. He’s been a member of the Good Athlete Project since 2017, helping run events and clinics all over the Midwest. He has also been instrumental in running events for the Illinois High School Powerlifiting Association (the governing body for team-based, coed, powerlifting in the state of Illinois). Coach Pekmez is also an avid car enthusiast and enjoys cooking and grilling for friends and family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b355d7185ede164bed77244/1598374115792-EXF9RNOIRD6P9AL4IROQ/IMG_3697.jpg About Us - Tom Farmer Tom Farmer is the Finance/Excel person for the Good Athlete Project in charge of tracking the debits (thank you!) and credits (money well spent) on behalf of the project. Outside of the Good Athlete Project, Tom is the Director of Global Compensation at The Northern Trust Company. In this role, he is responsible for managing the design and analysis of the organization’s global reward programs to ensure their efficiency and ability to attract and retain top talent. Tom earned an M.B.A from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. from Miami University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b355d7185ede164bed77244/1598036814883-BP826KOCMXG5SE86G47N/20200821_112648.jpg About Us - Maurice McDavid Maurice McDavid attended and played college football at Knox college where he earned his bachelor's degree in elementary education with minors in history and Spanish. He began his teaching career as an 8th grade social studies teacher after one year as an instructional assistant in a special education classroom and also coached football and basketball. He began work as a dean at DeKalb High School in the fall of 2016. After 3 years there, he made the move to become an elementary AP teacher at a bilingual elementary school. In the fall of 2020 he took over as principal at another dual language K-5 building. 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