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COVINGTON, KY
Covington players train just across the Licking River.
Alex Grant does not train in Covington. He trains players from Covington at three outdoor courts east of the river, in Bellevue and Newport and at Swope. It is a short drive, and this page is honest about it.
Court
Players from Covington train at Bellevue Beach Park, a Newport court, or Swope
Drive
A short drive east across the Licking River, roughly ten minutes
Surface
Outdoor public court, open air, no gym
Session
$200 per session, one on one or small group
01 / TRAINING IN COVINGTON
Is there basketball training in Covington, KY?
Not in Covington itself. Alex Grant trains at three outdoor courts only, all east across the Licking River in Bellevue and Newport and at Swope. Covington families make a drive of roughly ten minutes. Sessions are $200, one on one or small group, with a plan written per player.
Plenty of trainers will tell you they work wherever you live. Alex will not, because the three courts he uses are the three courts he knows: where the rims sit, where the sun lands in the evening, where there is room to work without waiting for a run to end. Covington is close enough that it costs a family ten minutes of driving to get the coach on a court he can actually run a session on.
What that session covers does not change by town. Repetition and drill work first, because there is no shortcut around it, then decision making at game speed against a defender. Covington has serious basketball history at Holy Cross and Holmes, and players from both are used to a certain standard of competition. The work here is aimed at making a player hard to guard rather than at making them look good in a highlight clip.
03 / AROUND HERE
Covington notes
- 01
Honest about the location
No court in Covington is part of this. Sessions happen at three outdoor courts east of the river, and you will always be told exactly which one.
- 02
9th Region competition
Holy Cross and Holmes players compete in a region where one loss ends the season. Individual skill is what a team leans on when the bracket gets hard.
- 03
Worth the drive or not
If a family cannot make a ten minute drive work regularly, training will not stick. Alex would rather say that up front than sell a package nobody uses.
05 / Questions
What families in Covington ask
Why not train at a court in Covington?
Because Alex works at three courts and knows all three well. Adding courts he has not used means bad rims, crowded runs and wasted time inside an hour a family paid for. The honest version is that Covington players drive about ten minutes east. Most families decide that is fine once they see what the hour contains.
Do you work with players who already have a team coach?
Almost all of them do. Training is not a replacement for a program, and Alex does not undercut what a high school coach is asking of a player. If anything he wants to know what that coach wants, because the fastest way to more minutes is being better at the specific thing your own coach keeps mentioning to you.
What do you do in the first session?
He watches. Handle, footwork, shot, how the player moves when tired, what they do when a defender takes away the first option. By the end of that hour he knows what the plan should be, and you get told plainly, including the parts that are not what a parent hoped to hear. Then the following sessions run against that plan.