Olympia volleyball coach Mitch Sadowsky keeps busy as small business owner, golf trainer

Monday mornings come early for Mitchell Sadowsky.

Sadowsky wakes up between 4:30 and 4:45 a.m. and, by 5:15, he arrives at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, where he is the director of golf fitness.

And that’s just the beginning.

In addition to his work at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, Sadowsky is also the head coach of the Olympia High School girls volleyball team and the owner of Mitch11 Strength & Performance, his own strength-training and performance company. Through his company, he works with a variety of organizations and has become the strength coach for Olympia High’s boys golf team. 

He also coaches and works as a strength and performance trainer for Florida Mojo volleyball, a local club team.

Sadowsky’s work within the game of golf has led to partnering with golf courses around the country. He helped to design golf-performance programs at the Legend at Brandybrook and Milwaukee Athletic Club, two Milwaukee organizations that work with golfers. 

He travels to Milwaukee about once a month.

“I love what I do,” he said. “I can’t say I’ve ever really worked a day in my life. In any facet of my life, I don’t go into an office. I go to a gym, and that keeps me fairly energized.”

Sadowsky added his duties with the Titans by chance — and begrudgingly. During the 2008-2009 club volleyball season, three Olympia boys volleyball players were on Sadowsky’s club team. They told Sadowsky they didn’t have a coach at Olympia and asked him if he would be interested in coaching them.

His response: No, absolutely not.

Still, they continued to ask him, so Sadowsky went to talk to the athletic director. 

“They were just great kids — it was a good program,” he said. “I didn’t really want to see them go through their senior year and not have some coaching.”

When he took over the program, he was asked if he would be interested in coaching the girls volleyball team, as well. 

No, absolutely not, he said again.

Sadowsky worked with the boys in the spring of 2009, and he decided to take over the girls program that fall. He’s coached at Olympia ever since.

At the end of last season, Sadowsky began working with the boys golf team.

Lake Nona Golf & Country Club is a six-minute drive from Sadowsky’s house. But he often makes it eight, because a coffee stop is needed. His schedule varies, but once he arrives, he works with a variety of golfers. He stays at the country club until 2 or 3 p.m., when he grabs some food and heads to Olympia High School. Some days, he works with the golf team. Volleyball practice runs from 4 to 7 p.m. If the team has a game, he typically arrives at 5 p.m. and finishes after 10 p.m.

It begs the question: Does he ever sleep?

“You find sleep when you can,” he said. “I tend to sleep quite a bit on airplanes.”

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