Gray WolfPerformance

West Lenexa, KS · Power & Presence

Power.
Presence.

An old story says two wolves live in all of us — one calm, one fierce. Most places train one. We built Gray Wolf Performance to feed both: the grit and tenacity to chase something hard, balanced with the recovery and mindfulness it takes to sustain it.

Youth DevelopmentAdult TrainingRecoverySpecialty Programs

Why Gray Wolf

Most gyms pick a side. We feed both.

The fierce wolf

Power

The part everyone pictures — strength, speed, sport, conditioning. The work that leaves you tired and leaves you better. Real programming, written by coaches who actually coach you through it, not a screen bolted to the wall.

The calm wolf

Presence

The part most gyms skip — breathwork, mobility, recovery, the mental side. It's quieter and it's harder to sell, but it's the half that makes the strength last. It's why people leave here steadier than they walked in.

What we do

For kids, for adults, for the long haul.

One floor, four things we're serious about. Most members start in one and end up in two or three.

Youth Development

Four coached levels — elementary through college-ready. Assigned coaches, real testing four times a year, and progress reported home.

Adult Training

Coached classes (STRONG, Olympic lifting, BURN), small-group training, and 1:1 personal training. Programmed by us, run by people who know what they're doing.

Recovery

Normatec, infrared sauna, performance mobility, monthly InBody — open to every member, never sold as an upsell.

Specialty Programs

Gray Wolf Golf with Joe Kinney, and Gray Wolf Neuro — golf performance and the mental side of competing, two specialty lines under the same roof.

The facility

5,000 square feet in west Lenexa — racks, turf, sleds, and a full recovery floor.

Young athletes

Four levels. A real progression.

For kids, it's not a class schedule — it's a path they move through, year over year. A coach who knows them, real things to work toward, and a next level they earn by getting better, not just by getting older.

01

Athletic Foundations

Elementary athletes

Movement literacy, coordination, work capacity, and learning how to train.

02

Athletic Development

Middle school athletes

Strength patterns, speed mechanics, accountability, training as a habit.

03

Advanced Performance

High school athletes

Sport-relevant strength, power, speed, recovery, and performing under pressure.

04

Elite Performance

Competitive HS & collegiate

Individualized programming, advanced assessment through our clinical partnership, sport-specific blocks.

Testing

Tested four times a year — youth and adults, side by side. Reserve your slot and see progress you can measure, not just feel.

Adults

You train here too.

Plenty of our members are adults — some come for the training, many stay for the people. Classes, small group, or one-on-one. All coached, all programmed, no guesswork.

Classes

STRONG · Olympic · BURN

Coached strength, Olympic weightlifting, and conditioning — programmed in cycles, run by a coach in front of the class. You show up; we handle the plan.

Small group

Train with a few

Semi-private training in small groups — real coaching attention at a better rate than 1:1, with a few people who push you.

Personal training

1:1, built around you

One coach, your goals, a real plan. Layer it on top of classes, or make it your whole program.

Recovery

Built into how we train.

Open to every member — not sold as an upsell. It's part of how athletes train and how adults stay in it.

Normatec compression
Infrared sauna
Performance mobility classes
Monthly InBody scans
PowerDot & Vielight
Breath & meditation

Specialty

Golf, and the mental game.

Beyond the training floor, two specialties that stand on their own — golf performance with Joe Kinney, and Gray Wolf Neuro for the mental side of competing. Same roof, same standard.

Gray Wolf Golf

Body, mind, swing

Golf-specific performance with Joe Kinney — playing since age three, collegiate at Kansas State, professional, winner of the 2013 Illinois Open — on a Foresight simulator, next to a full training floor.

Gray Wolf Neuro

Mental performance

Neurofeedback, qEEG brain mapping, mental-performance coaching, talk therapy, and team mental training. The inner game — measured and coached — and a full service line of its own.

The Pack

Homebase is Lenexa. The pack runs everywhere.

The coaching that knows you, now reaching past the four walls — programming, the mental game, fuel, and recruiting, connected in one place, always with a real coach behind it. It's where Gray Wolf is going, and it stays rooted in people.

The people

The people who'll know your name.

Graham Parish
Co-Founder · Head Coach

Fifteen years coaching baseball and pitching at every level — Graham pitched collegiately and professionally before turning to developing athletes full time. He holds a psychology degree from the University of Kansas, and it shows in how he coaches: the mental game gets trained right alongside the physical one. He runs the training floor, builds the development progressions every youth athlete moves through, and co-designed our mental-performance curriculum. If your kid trains at Gray Wolf, Graham has thought about their next step before they've taken this one.

Corey Wacknov
Co-Founder · Head of Operations

Corey's path runs through basketball — University of Kansas Men's Basketball, then the Orlando Magic — and into the business of sport, with a Master's from Northwestern and years as Director of Strategy at ShotTracker. At Gray Wolf he runs strategy, operations, and finance: the systems that let coaches coach. He's the reason your testing, programming, and progress actually get measured and tracked — and the other half of the two-wolves vision.

Monte Pascal
Personal Trainer · Youth Athletic Coach

Fitness has been the cornerstone of Monte's life for as long as he can remember, and it shows in how he coaches. A NASM-certified personal trainer, he works across strength, posture, mobility, and injury recovery — meeting every client where they actually are, then moving them forward. On the floor he coaches our middle-school development level and the adult STRONG and Olympic lifting classes, which means he spends his days doing the two things he does best: building young athletes and making adults strong. Patient, precise, and relentlessly consistent — the trainer people stay with for years.

Jordan Bratt
Director of Neuro

Jordan is a neurotherapist and sports-performance therapist with a baseball background — he speaks athlete first, clinician second. He leads our neurofeedback and qEEG brain mapping: a BrainMaster system builds a 3D model of how your brain actually fires, and we train it toward focus, composure, and faster recovery. He's the clinical engine behind Gray Wolf Neuro, working with athletes, adults, and whole teams on the part of performance nobody else measures.

Carlie Wilferth
Personal Training · Mobility · Marketing

Carlie grew up in and around fitness — basketball, soccer, then CrossFit — and turned it into a coaching life. A personal trainer and 200-hour PowerLife-certified yoga instructor, she coaches Athletic Foundations and leads the mobility work that keeps our athletes moving as well as they lift. She believes the mind-body connection isn't a slogan, it's a skill — and she teaches it. She's also the creative force behind Gray Wolf's marketing, content, and movement library, so if you've seen us online, you've seen her work.

Joe Kinney
Golf Instruction

Joe has been playing golf since he was three years old. He played collegiately at Kansas State, played professionally, and won the 2013 Illinois Open. As an instructor he pairs modern data and technology — ball-flight numbers on our Foresight simulator — with the feel, artistry, and decision-making that actually lower scores. And because lessons run next to a full training floor, your swing and the body that powers it get built in the same building.

The Gray Wolf founders

Come as you are

What to expect.

01Come as you are. Total beginner or lifelong athlete, we'll meet you exactly where you're starting.
02You'll get real coaching from people who learn your name — never a screen bolted to the wall.
03No hype and no hard sell. We'll tell you what we actually do and let the work make the case.
04We're one gym in west Lenexa, not a franchise — and we genuinely like it that way.
05It works best when you show up — and we'll take care of the rest.
06We'll always be straight with you about progress, and we're in your corner the whole way.

Come see us

Let's talk.

Tell us about your athlete — or yourself. No pressure, no hard sell. Reach out and we'll put a real coach in front of you.