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In the blue corner, Joel Atkinson is an incoming freshman and RedLine Athete that signed a scholarship with OSU to play baseball. His opponent: none other than Lyndsey Simmons, ex-OSU standout and RedLine Athletics founder and trainer.

Let’s get ready to rumble!

All three of these young men realized the gifts and talents they had been given, but they also understood that they need to maximize those talents. Peter Tago has been training at RedLine since the 8th grade, Kevin Chambers began his training the fall of his sophomore year at Capo Valley HS, and Colton Keough started as a junior at Tesoro HS.

As you see, it’s never to early to start nor is it to late to start training with the incredible staff at RedLine. NOW IS THE TIME!!!! There is no time like the present to get your son or daughter in to help give them that edge that college coaches or profession scouts will notice on the field of play.

Colton has been a part of the RedLine Athletics family for over a year, and since Colton has come in, we have been able to help him get both physically and mentally prepared for the baseball at the highest level. We wish Colton well and the best of luck!

Peter has been a part of the RedLine Athletics family for 5 years! When Peter was in 8th grade when Lyndsey began working with him. It has been great to see Peter grow and mature as a baseball player through his high school career. We wish him well and the best of luck!

Here is what BaseballAmerica.com wrote about him…

“Tago epitomizes Southern California cool. Oblivious to outside distractions, he calmly ambles off the team bus decked out in a hooded sweatshirt and wraparound shades with his iPod earphones firmly in place. He also worries little about high school hitters, whom he routinely dominates. His lanky 6-foot-3, 180-pound frame is ideally projectable, and Tago delivers the ball with an easy, relaxed throwing motion that is almost poetic. Tago, who switched his college commitment from UCLA to Cal State Fullerton in May, fires a 91-93 mph fastball, and his arm action and build indicate more velocity in the future. His curve exhibits nice shape and two-plane movement, but Tago will need to tighten the spin on that pitch. He can better incorporate his lower half into his delivery and clean up his arm stroke as well. He’ll also need to develop a third pitch, such as a changeup. An Aflac and Area Codes alumnus, Tago provides a near perfect model of a prep righthander with a huge upside: projectable frame, easy arm action, calm demeanor and electric stuff.”

Marko was a scholarship winner at UC-Sacramento State, where he had a 42 consecutive game starting streak while attending the university. However, Cavka is not only limited to football. While growing up, he played club volleyball as well.

Many of you may not realize, but RedLine’s entire training staff has reached the professional ranks!!! So we know what it takes to get to the desired destination of our athletes. Many training places put a premium on the academia of training; whether it is speed, strength, or skills themselves, however, the ownership of RedLine takes it one step further. We want our staff to be able to speak from professional personal experience as well as know the latest techniques being taught by the pros, at major universities, and also by the fitness field gurus!!!

However, most importantly, there is no way we could have pulled this off without our loyal and dedicated clients!!! We owe each and everyone of you a huge THANK YOU, and we look forward to showing you around the expansion of YOUR training facility.

Thanks again for making RedLine what it is today. See you soon!

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Being able to run an athletic training facility was a dream of Lyndsey Simmons’ since he was a young boy.

With RedLine Athletics in San Juan Capistrano, he is able to live it as the facility’s owner. Simmons, a 27-year-old former Mets and Nationals minor-leaguer, was on the Mets’ spring-training roster as a catcher. Lyndsey Simmons is the owner of RedLine Athletics in San Juan Capistrano.

“Being in baseball and having a wife and two kids was very taxing on my family,” Simmons said. “I would be gone for about 10 out of 12 months. So I decided to retire. I was right on the brink of breaking into the big leagues. I hung it up when my daughter was born.”

Simmons’ passion for baseball has been channeled into his passion for the gym, which opened in 2005 in Laguna Niguel and moved to its current location on Calle Perfecto this year. The business is planning on opening a second facility in January somewhere in south Orange County.

“We’re definitely not comfortable, we’re not complacent,” Simmons said. “Being new, we have a chip on our shoulder. You’re not going to beat our youth or our energy … our kids feel like they belong to a club.”

Cincinnati Bengals starting quarterback Carson Palmer, who starred at Santa Margarita Catholic High School and USC, is a RedLine client, as is his younger brother and Bengals third-string QB Jordan.

RedLine has helped athletes excel in sports like baseball, football, tennis, golf, basketball, softball and volleyball, to name a few.

“I feel way more satisfied owning this gym than I did in all my years playing baseball,” Simmons said. “We’re an all-sport gym. There really hasn’t been a sport we haven’t done.”

It has helped produce results for local area athletes. Consultant Neal Schultz estimates that 80 percent of the members are between the ages of 12 and 22. They include Oregon State linebacker Ben Terry, who played at Saddleback College, and pitcher John Lamb, a fifth-round pick in 2008 of the Kansas City Royals.

Another example is starting pitcher Jeff Kaplan of the St. Lucie Mets, a single-A affiliate of the New York Mets. Kaplan played at Cal-State Fullerton and at Irvine Valley College. Kaplan finished 7-7 with a 2.45 earned-run average this season.

“I needed a place to step up and complete at the next level,” Kaplan said. “RedLine has been the place that’s done that. They have a good relationship with the Mets, they know what I’m doing. They help me do my strength and agility work. It gives me all the aspects I need to be a pro athlete.”

Two more recent examples are Dana Hills’ starting pitcher, Aflac All-American and UCLA verbal commit Peter Tago, projected to be a first- or second-round pick in next year’s Major League Baseball Draft; and left-handed pitcher Zach Johnson, who accepted a full-ride scholarship to play at San Diego State University. There are various clients from lacrosse to even a professional race car driver, Connor De Phillippi.

“I want to make a positive impact on the kids’ lives,” Simmons said. “We’ve helped them land 30 athletic scholarships in three years.”

The training involves a personal trainer at nearly all times. Simmons gives free one-hour evaluations himself and is on the premises nearly every day. The athletes are first put through a series of tests, like vertical jumps, strength and flexibility tests.

“What makes us unique is we work on very specific areas,” Simmons said. “If someone has a tight hamstring, we make sure he’s loose so he doesn’t injure himself later on. We have an arm care device, which strengthens a quarterback’s rotator cuff so he’s used to throwing over and over and doesn’t get hurt.”

Simmons did not necessarily go into too much detail talking about the equipment, which includes a Vertimax machine, which involves resistance plyometrics and a Bungie cord that connects to the person to provide resistance. There is also overspeed training, in which a Bungie cord is tied to the waist and springs the runner forward. There are also free weights and kettle bells.

But he boasts about his staff. They include former Mets strength and conditioning coach Eric Korop, head baseball and softball coach Dan Cumins, who played for five years in the Mets’ organization, and Brad Hinkle, who pitched for the Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates.

“My staff has had the highest amount of training and they’ve played at the highest level,” Simmons said. “That’s my secret weapon is our staff. My first question in some of our job interviews is, ‘What’d you play?’ If they’ve played high school or community college, or they’ve only read about it in a book, we’re not going to hire them.”