Spire Academy — Local services in Saybrook

Spire Academy Director / Head Coach Bobby Bossman has developed Spire's Basketball into a recruiting hotspot for college coaches all cross to the country. In a recent article by Kevin Kleps, Coach Bossman says "last year alone 150 College Coaches visited Spire Institute to recruit players from our program". Some of the more notable prospects included Jordan Blount (UIC Commit), Marcus Ottey (UIC Commit), Marcela Haskett (LMU Commit), Yalim Olcay (Western Carolina Commit), and Tyrell Gumbs Frater holds offers from Florida State, Texas Christian University, Eastern Kentucky, Kansas State, and ACC Powerhouse North Carolina State University.

The High School and Post-Graduate Basketball Academy compete on one of the longest and most intense National Preparatory Basketball Schedules in the country. This includes The New England Preparatory Tour, DMV Prep Tour, National Preparatory Showcase, West Coast Prep Tour,

The intense and rigorous training at Spire Performance is led by John Wallace who uses training techniques from Micheal Johnson Performance Training. In addition to Athletic Performance Training, athletes also receive Mental Training conducted by Sam Maniar PhD who has worked with some of the best athletes in the world.

The facilities are some of the most impressive in the world. Spire Basketball Academy is one of the only prep schools in the nation housed inside a United States Olympic Training Center. Housing options include Post-Graduate Housing at Quail Hollow Resort in Concord, OH.

Spire Institute has helped place student athletes from both the United States and Internationally in college programs all across the United States, and it will only continue to grow as the...

I had heard such big things about SPIRE, but was pretty disappointed when I got here. The review is mainly for the aquatic center, but extends to the grounds as well.

First, the exterior for something that cost as much as this is rumored to cost is pretty blah to look at. We were here for a swim meet and had to park in a huge dusty rock gravel parking lot. Further down the lot, part of the building is boarded up with weeds growing out of it, and dry rot...looks unfinished. The whole place looks like a ‘what could have been’ story.

The entrance to the pool for something that is supposed to be a premier location for athletic events is so plain, if it didn’t have stickers on the windows, I would miss it. The interior was very nice, which is the saving grace of the whole facility. But then you get frustrated again once inside because the construction causes the COMPLETE loss of cell signal, and their Free WiFi is woefully incapable of handling the bandwidth required for even the smallest crowd. Tough to use swimming’s online meet reporting tool with no signal, and this is across all swim events sponsored by USA Swimming. It doesn’t surprise you that the place is struggling when taking all these factors into account....

Add into that the bad business sense....they had a pretty substantial crowd here, and they have a full cafeteria right where everyone comes in that wasn’t open ...that could have been thousands of dollars of revenue.

It’s not the hundred dollar bills, it’s the nickels and dimes wasted that doom projects...

We originally posted back in January about the issues at this facility. We did receve a message apologizing and saying they would corect the issues. We have been back twice since and not much has changed. In fact it has gotten worse. We were there on the 14th of February. The parking lot was still a mess an very icey. There was still no announcing of events which made it nearly impossible to not miss an event. They also did not post the event list anywhere (as they said they would) and the the staff at the facility directed us to a QR code to scan at the facility. The QR code that was at the facility directed us to a list of events for the next day (15th) not for the day we were there. Even worse, during the long distance running event the lap keeper could not keep up with who was were. With some of the fast kids lapping the other kids, he directed the fast kids to keep running when they were done and thought the slower kids were done when they had a lap to go. It ended being two thirds of the racers didn't do the race correctly. Honestly, the track is probably too small for long distances running or they need a better way to do it. It truly is a beautiful facility, but completely mismanaged, which is unfortunate. This is, by far, the worst track and field event I have ever been too and it...