
Speaker for athletic programs
Build athletes who own their next move.
Austin Schnizler speaks to athletic programs, coaches, and student-athletes about owning mistakes, responding to adversity, and making the next choice on purpose.
20
Coached athletes to 20 national championships
D-I
Football scholarship athlete
Founder
Entrepreneur and operator
Stage IV
Hodgkin lymphoma survivor
Some adversity finds you.
Some of it follows a choice you made.
Austin knows both.
Who it's for
Built for athletic programs first.
High school and college teams, captains, coaches, and athletic directors. Also schools and youth sports organizations that want a real story, not a lecture.
- Athletic programs
- Coaches and staff
- High school teams
- College athletics
- Schools
- Youth sports
Three talks
Three ways to bring Austin in.
Keynote, about 30 minutes
Own the Next Move
For high school and college teams, captains, and athletic programs.
A talk that helps athletes stop explaining and start owning their next choice.
What athletes walk away withOne specific action to take this week.
Team session
Four Laps
For a single team, a position group, or a whole program.
Austin tells the four laps, eight laps, twelve laps story from the hospital floor, then hands your coaches a seven-day challenge to run with the team.
What athletes walk away withA seven-day challenge your coaches can run.
Coaches and staff session
Build People Who Refuse to Quit
For head coaches, assistants, and athletic directors.
A working session from a coach who has been the athlete who got cut, on building character and accountability that holds up when the season goes badly.
What athletes walk away withOne team standard and one honest conversation to have this month.

In his words
“The goal isn’t just to build champions in the ring or on the field, it’s to build people who refuse to quit.”
4 laps.8 laps.12 laps.
During a month-long hospital stay, Austin became weak enough to need a walker. Recovery started with four laps around the ICU.
Read Austin's story
- G
Growth Through Adversity
- R
Responsibility
- I
Intention
- T
Tenacity
G.R.I.T. is the framework behind Austin's talks, built from his own life and years of coaching young athletes.
Explore G.R.I.T.
