Our story
Two wolves.
There's an old parable about two wolves — one calm, one fierce. Most people pick a side. We built Gray Wolf for the people who'd rather feed both.
The parable
It starts with an old story about two wolves. One is calm — kindness, patience, empathy. The other is fierce — grit, drive, the will to push through hard things. Most people pick a side. They feed the calm wolf and call it peace, or they feed the fierce one and call it discipline. We think the strongest people feed both.
That's the gray wolf — not one or the other, but both at once. It's where our name comes from, and it's why the mark is half light and half dark, with the eyes looking straight ahead.
So we built a place that trains both sides. The fierce side — strength, speed, sport, the work that makes you tired and makes you better. And the calm side — yoga, breathwork, mobility, recovery, neurofeedback, the mental work most gyms leave out entirely. Power and presence, under one roof, with coaches who know your name.
Feed both wolves.
The people
The people who'll know your name.
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'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.
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 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 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 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.
Travis has spent years training volleyball players from all of the area's major clubs. His specialty is the athletic side of the sport — vertical jump mechanics, landing quality, explosive power, and the core and shoulder strength that keep hitters healthy through a long season. He coaches in small-group settings where every rep gets watched, and runs our weekday vertical program for athletes chasing inches. If your game is played above the net, Travis builds the engine that gets you there.
Ashley is a NASM-certified personal trainer completing her nutrition-coaching certification — so the training plan and the fuel plan come from the same brain. She grew up a competitive soccer player, then spent a decade across CrossFit, endurance, and competitive kettlebell sport, which means she's lived almost every kind of training her clients bring her. She builds customized plans around each person's strengths, goals, and real life. Strong, sustainable, and yours — that's the plan she writes.
Josh came up through football, wrestling, and track, and he coaches like the multi-sport athlete he was — speed, strength, and the all-around athleticism that transfers to any game. As a personal trainer and youth athletic coach, he works with young athletes on the fundamentals that compound: sprint mechanics, strength done right, and the confidence that comes from measurable progress. High energy, high standards, and a favorite on the youth floor.
Lori is a sports-performance therapist and neurotherapist — talk therapy, mental-performance coaching, and breathwork under one roof. She works with athletes on confidence, focus, pressure, and identity: the conversations that change what happens between the ears when it actually counts. She also leads Unshakeable, our team mental-performance program, bringing the mental game to whole rosters, not just individuals.
Jack holds a Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Kansas Medical Center and a kinesiology degree from Kansas State. A former basketball player and Brazilian jiu-jitsu athlete, he knows both sides of the equation — pushing a body hard, and putting one back together. He coaches on our youth training floor, where movement quality and prevention start, and practices physical therapy at his own clinic. When one of our athletes needs real rehab, Jack is our trusted referral — a PT who already knows how we train and what we're building toward.
Bria is a certified exercise physiologist and licensed occupational therapist — a health and exercise science degree from The College of New Jersey, a Master's from Columbia, and a PhD in progress at KU Medical Center. Her clinical range runs from stroke and Parkinson's recovery to diabetes and cancer rehabilitation, alongside athletic populations. She's the bridge between training and medicine: when a client carries real clinical history, Bria is how we train them safely and still make progress.
Come see us
Come meet us.
The best way to understand Gray Wolf is to be here while a class runs. Reach out and we'll set it up.