Learning Through Sports is one of the fastest growing publishers of K-12 educational solutions delivered exclusively over the Internet.  

We successfully deliver state aligned Math, Reading and Character Education through the most engaging sports video games available today. This patent pending solution has yielded unprecedented results in improving Math and Reading state test scores as well as correcting behavioral issues in the classroom. Furthermore, we are the leading provider of Sportsmanship Education to America’s schools and routinely see a 50% reduction in sports ejections after implementing our programs.

The company publishes Kid's College®, a Math & Literacy intervention program; STAR Sportsmanship™, the first interactive program to teach Sportsmanship & Character Education; and MySportsmanship.com™, the first moderated social networking website to feature student-athletes’ personal video testimonials of positive sportsmanship. Additionally, Learning Through Sports’ STAR Mentors program offers professional athlete mentoring focused on impacting disengaged and at-risk students: improving their behavior and making them better students.

The new Educational Athletics Program is a unique “all-inclusive” solution that combines engaging Kid’s College and STAR Sportsmanship virtual curriculum with on campus pro athlete mentoring to help students build 21st Century Skills like leadership, teamwork, critical thinking, mathematics and reading.

Learning Through Sports’ web-based solutions employ the unique approach of combining athletics and digital games with academics to heighten motivation in today's students, who demand an engaging learning experience. Scientific research affirms that our digital game-based learning content delivery methodology works.

Through product development, Learning Through Sports has assembled a wealth of intellectual property (patents pending), including:

Amechele Toups
Utilization Specialist and Coaching Liaison

Our Team

He has over 20 years experience in senior executive roles managing Legal, Human Resources, Technology Infrastructure, and Administration. He has enjoyed a diversified career having worked with Merrill Lynch in the launch of Oklahoma Venture Partners, serving as COO of a Los Angeles advertising agency, and having operated for a decade as an Executive Officer, Secretary, and General Counsel for a publicly-traded software company with more than 2,000 employees and a market capitalization over $1 billion. He is a Managing Director at Georgetown Advisors, a healthcare investment firm.

Risenhoover received his Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University, Master of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma, and Bachelor of Science in Management from Pepperdine University. He has been married for 20 years and has four daughters.

Prior to consulting, Bobby served as a Controller for SunGard Employee Benefit Systems, the largest provider of defined contribution software in the United States, eventually earning the position of Vice President/Controller with responsibility for all budgeting and accounting of four domestic and international companies. Bobby played high school and college baseball (at the University of Montevallo) and has coached for the Alabaster Dixie Youth Baseball Program and the American Legion.

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Amechele Toups, Utilization Specialist and Coaching Liaison | TOP

Benj played in the major leagues with the Minnesota Twins as pitcher, and also in the minor leagues with the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies. Following his baseball career, he attended the University of Texas at Arlington as a Finance Major. 

Benj is also a pivotal figure in Learning Through Sports’ STAR Mentors program. His professional sports background and numerous hours spent tutoring young athletes in the U.S. and abroad render him well-prepared to serve as a positive sportsmanship spokesperson and role model.

Benj has been married for 8 years and has 2 children. His hobbies include coaching, golfing, and spending time with the family hiking, traveling, or exercising their chocolate Lab.

Tony Banks says that his experience as a former professional football and baseball player inspired natural leadership in him and helped foster invaluable social skills that he exercises today as a STAR Mentor for youth athletes.

Reflecting on his own childhood in a neighborhood of southeast San Diego riddled with gang activity,

Tony set a goal as a member of Learning Through Sports to inspire kids (especially inner city youth) to embrace learning both in the classroom and on the sports field, and in doing so avoid succumbing to a dangerous lifestyle.

Tony is a sportsmanship spokesperson for the company, drawing on years of success first playing baseball for the Minnesota farm system straight out of high school, then playing football over a 20-year span for San Diego Mesa Junior College, Michigan State University, the St. Louis Rams, Baltimore Ravens (winning a Super Bowl in 2000), Washington Redskins, and the Houston Texans.

As National Accounts Consultant, Tony is responsible for matching Learning Through Sports with corporate sponsors who believe in the same mission for today’s youth. Tony has been married for 8 years and has one son.

Brooks spent one and a half years as assistant volleyball coach at UAB (helping lead them to their first-ever Conference-USA Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament).

Brooks joined Learning Through Sports in 2009 with more than three years of prior inside sales experience.  Brooks looks forward to building relationships with educators to better meet the needs of their students.  He enjoys seeing students of all backgrounds come alive in the classroom using the tools created by Learning Through Sports.  Brooks earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Speech Communication from Georgia Southern University in 2004. He and his wife have three young children.

Working with Special Education students and Gifted and Talented students in the Baltimore school system, Danielle became skilled at differentiating curriculum to meet the needs of all types of learners. Today, she writes differentiated curriculum (both remedial and accelerated curriculum) for the diverse learners in Kid's College. Danielle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Towson University and a Master of Science degree in Curriculum, Design and Instruction from Walden University. Danielle resides in Maryland with her husband and daughter.

David founded Kinney & Associates in 1994 as an educational company that delivers testing, consulting and web-based products with an emphasis on data-driven results. Kid's College is one of the company's most popular and successful programs. David's prior experience as a test consultant for CTB/McGraw-Hill and a Special Education teacher and director has equipped him to partner with districts across Illinois in the school improvement planning process.

As Vice President of Kinney & Associates (an Illinois-based provider of Learning Through Sports programs - www.kinneyandassociates.com), Catherine supervises site-based and field-based staff and designs/implements professional development sessions linking curriculum, standards-based assessments and student achievement. She received her B.A. in Elementary Education from Loras College and her M.A. in Educational Administration from Governors State University. Her first major publication by Corwin Press was Data! Dialogue! Decisions! The Data Difference.

David is a partner of Vincent & Rees, LC, a legal and business advisory firm located in Salt Lake City, Utah and also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of a financial consulting and marketing firm in Salt Lake City. David has many years of experience working with companies in various capacities, including arranging and structuring financing, operations, sales/marketing, cross-border transactions and legal advisory services.

Dr. McDaniels is an expert in services for at-risk children, youth and adults. He was Chief of Evaluation and Research for the U.S. Department of Education's Title I Program. Dr. McDaniels also served as the Director of Research, Evaluation and Demonstration programs for the then Bureau for the Education of the Handicapped at the Department of Education. In 1982, he served as the Director of Federal Special Education Programs.

McDaniels and his colleagues created SkillsBank and Cornerstone, which became two of the best-selling supplemental computer products for U.S. schools. In 2000, McDaniels and his associates founded a new company that brought these popular disk products to the web under the name of SkillsTutor.

McDaniels is currently President of the non-profit Orion Research Group focused on evaluation of basic education programs for children and adolescents with disabilities, and low skilled adults. He is the author of over 100 professional papers, 50 magazine columns on education research and data, and a frequent speaker on education topics. The University of Michigan, where McDaniels received his PhD, honored him for his work with the Distinguished Alumni Award, in 1995.

Currently, Jubenville serves as the Director for CSPR, the Publisher of JSAS, and the Assistant Chair of the Department. Prior to being named the Assistant Chair, he served as the Coordinator of the doctoral program from 2007-2009. During his tenure, he chaired four dissertations that were closely tied to the mission of CSPR.

Jubenville has published articles in Sport Marketing Quarterly, the International Journal of Sport Management, the Journal of Marketing in Higher Education, the Journal of Sport Administration and Supervision, the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, The Journal of Venue and Event Management as well as many trade articles within the sport industry. Specifically, Jubenville has many articles featured with International Association of Assembly Managers, Inc., in Facility Manager Magazine (www.IAAM.org).

In 2009, Jubenville was selected by Learning Through Sports to work with Mr. Wright Waters, Commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference (SBC) (www.sunbeltsports.org), along with LTS to development, implement, and measure the effectiveness of an interactive sportsmanship platform that moves past posters and PSA's focused on providing tools for better understanding and implementing values related to sportsmanship for coaches and student-athletes in the conference. This platform continues to be refined and was proven both valid and reliable in year one.

As the CEO of Trylonix Corporation, Barton has over 25 years of experience in software development and is the developer of Knowledge Adventure’s best-selling JumpStart series of children's edutainment software. As the very first grade-based edutainment software, JumpStart literally created an entirely new category of educational software. Fernando Echovera who was formerly with Knowledge Adventure, brings a wealth of experience in database programming to Trylonix’s outstanding team.

Whether as a producer, executive producer or designer, Barton has personally been involved in the creation of more than 15 edutainment titles, as well as the development of an innovative online tutoring service and home learning software for robots. Captivating gameplay and engrossing characters, combined with solid learning and progress tracking, has been the hallmark of his award-winning company. Learning Through Sports is proud to employ the services of this development firm specializing in edutainment and game software, education technology and children’s products.