SportsEdTV produces training videos for young athletes
INNOVATION
Good Sports
Former University of Miami tennis player John Eagleton and marketer Robert Mazzucchelli have teamed up to create SportsEdTV, a digital media venture that produces training videos for young athletes.
The videos, available free on the company’s website, feature coaches and athletes giving instruction on some aspect of their sport, including a lesson from former NBA star Tim Hardaway on the crossover dribble and former professional tennis player Jeff Salzenstein on hitting a kick serve.
Eagleton, who played tennis at UM in the mid-1970s, initially approached Mazzucchelli about writing an instructional book on tennis. Mazzucchelli suggested they make videos instead. “We saw the success of sites like Khan Academy in the academic world, and it just reinforced our belief that learning in all areas is going online with free video,” Mazzucchelli says.
They launched SportsEdTV in 2018 with videos on tennis and golf and have since expanded to basketball, soccer, weightlifting and esports. The company plans to make money from advertising and sponsorships.
Eagleton oversees the website’s tennis content, and Mazzucchelli is chairman and chief marketing officer. In April, they announced that SportsEdTV had raised $3 million from private investors.
AQUACULTURE
- The first phase of what could be the world’s largest indoor salmon farm is to be completed later this year. Salmon will be hatched, grown and processed at the 390,000-sq.-ft. climate-controlled facility. Denmark-based Atlantic Sapphire is developing the salmon farm in four phases on former tomato fields in Homestead. Earlier this year, Miami-Dade County agreed to give Atlantic Sapphire $5 million over 10 years from its Targeted Jobs Incentive Fund for the project’s second phase. In return, the company pledged to create at least 237 jobs with an average annual salary of at least $60,000.
EDUCATION
- Theresa Axford, executive director of teaching and learning for the Monroe County School District, will replace Mark Porter as superintendent at the start of the new school year. Porter, who has led the district for eight years, plans to move to Charlotte, N.C. Fran Herrin, a longtime elementary school principal in Key West, will replace Axford as the district’s teaching and learning director.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- Dade County Federal Credit Union is renovating and expanding its Sweetwater headquarters. When the project is completed next year, the credit union will have a three-story, 40,000-sq.-ft. building attached to its original offices and a 154-space garage.
REAL ESTATE
- An affiliate of Montvale, N.J.- based Ivy Realty paid $30.5 million for 234,738 square feet of refrigerated warehouse space leased to Southeast Frozen Foods in north Miami-Dade.
- Publix Super Markets paid $23 million for a 1.5-acre site near the University of Miami in Coral Gables, where it plans to demolish an office and retail complex and develop a grocery store.
PHILANTHROPY
- The Miami Foundation hired Rebecca Fishman Lipsey as president and CEO. She succeeds Javier Alberto Soto, who led the organization for 10 years before leaving last fall to head the Denver Foundation. Lipsey, 39, previously was founding CEO of Radical Partners, which helps activists in South Florida tackle major social issues like sea-level rise and housing affordability. Lipsey graduated as valedictorian from the University of Pennsylvania and has a master’s degree from Bank Street College of Education in New York City. After beginning her career as a teacher in Harlem, she became the youngest person ever to serve on the Florida Board of Education in 2014 and is a former executive director of Teach for America Miami-Dade.
COVID-19 UPDATE
- Miami-Dade County commissioners unanimously approved a $64.8-million coronavirus relief package for airlines, duty-free stores and other businesses at Miami International Airport, deferring or waiving rents and fees for three months. The airport also received $206.9 million in federal aid under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a team of doctors at the University of Miami to launch a stem cell trial for coronavirus patients with severe lung inflammation. The study involves using an intravenous infusion of stem cells from umbilical cords to help reduce “cytokine storms,” a potentially fatal complication of the virus.
- Federal regulators gave emergency approval to Baptist Health South Florida to use a COVID-19 test it developed for patients and health care providers. The test can process up to 80 samples a day and return results in 24 hours or less.
- Miami-based CMX Cinemas, which owns Cobb Theatres, filed for bankruptcy protection, citing “a total suspension of our business” because of the coronavirus shutdown.
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers converted the Miami Beach Convention Center into a 450-bed temporary hospital.
- Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises laid off or furloughed nearly 1,300 of its more than 5,000 employees in the U.S.
- Domio, an apartment-hotel short-term rental company that manages several properties in Miami-Dade, including the new 175-unit Domio Wynwood, offered more than 1,000 room nights at no charge to local hospital workers.
Read more in Florida Trend's July issue.
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