Sponsor Higgins Speed Lab trains athletes in all sports, all levels in quickness, strength, mechanics and more in South Brunswick facility

For Kyle Higgins, the son of longtime Piscataway head coach Dan Higgins, whose father Tom was an early Chiefs’ head coach from 1970 to 1989, playing multiple sports was just the way it was done.

He was at Hopewell Valley High School, playing football and lacrosse, excelling at both. He went on to Castleton University in Vermont, and then into coaching. He’s an assistant working under his dad with the Chiefs, and saw the need for helping student-athletes improve beyond just the Xs and Os.

He worked at various facilities, and then decided to open his own: Higgins Speed Lab in South Brunswick.

It’s a simple facility. No flashy signs. This is where all the work goes in that people don’t see.

Working on things like proper running mechanics, acceleration/deceleration, multi-directional speed, first step quickness, mobility, plyometrics and more.

They get kids from all kinds of sports, not just football or lacrosse. And Kyle can tailor training to that specific sport. Soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball, track, gymnastics, tennis, and yes, even golf!

We got to visit one day back in January – when the off-season work nobody notices until they take the field – as a trio of college football player trainees were going through workouts, getting ready for the NFL’s Pro Day. They included grad student K-Shawn Schulters of Monmouth – a St. Joseph-Metuchen alum who began his college career at Villanova – as well as Tolu Olajide and Jacoby Sherard of New Hampshire, who both went to Lawrenceville High.

Watch the video of their workout above, and click below to hear Kyle Higgins talk about Higgins Speed Lab with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko:

Of course, Higgins Speed Lab is the sponsor of the “Speedster of the Week” segment on Central Jersey Sports Radio, honoring the top rushers each week in the Big Central Conference! Click below to read about Week Five winner Andrew Avent of Rahway, and listen to the top ten Speedsters of the Week!