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Coach Mike Fay, the founder and president of TTS Sports, has been teaching young athletes in the Merrimack Valley for most of his adult life. His love of sports and kids is what prompted him to start TTS Sports in 1992 and it is this same love that continues to motivate him a decade later.

Mike takes a “hands on” approach to instruction in every TTS Sports program. He believes that every player should be given the chance to excel as an athlete by receiving positive reinforcement, regardless of skill level.

Mike has enjoyed athletics for almost as long and he can remember. Mike was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and spent his childhood in Salisbury Beach. At Triton High School, he played football, basketball, baseball and hockey. As young man, he was a dedicated Celtics and Bruins fan. Mike's love for playing and following sports fueled his desire to continue on in the world of athletics after attending prep school.

Mike received his first coaching job in 1972 as the assistant goalie coach for the Byfield Youth Hockey League. He then went on to found the Salisbury Minor League (baseball), which is still running today. Other coaching positions that followed were:

• Head Coach for the Bordertown Youth Hockey Team
• Football Coach for Hampton Youth Football
• Freshman Football Coach for Central Catholic High School in Lawrence
• Director of Andover Football Camp at Phillips Academy
• Assistant Football Coach at Governor Dummer Academy
• JV Baseball Coach at Governor Dummer Academy
• Head Baseball Coach at Sanborn High School
• Basketball Coach at Sanborn Middle School
• Head Football Coach for New England Storm of the NWFL (National Women's Football League)
• (Current) Owner and Head Coach of Mass Mutiny also of the NWFL

Mike started his TTS Sports programs at Cedardale in Haverhill. His very first program was a successful baseball clinic, which led to fall basketball clinics, winter basketball leagues, February and April vacation camps and summer sports camps. During the years that followed Mike continued to grow TTS Sports by reproducing his popular Cedardale programs in other towns in the Merrimack Valley. What started as one program in one location, has grown into dozens of programs in 10 locations, serving more then 3,500 children in Merrimack Valley and beyond!

To Mike it's all about passion—passion that he passes on to the kids he coaches.

“I'm passionate about giving kids the chance to experience the fun that sports can bring to their lives,” said Mike. “The fun is rooted in skill development. Helping a player to advance in skills is giving a child something that they will always have. To me, that is very fulfilling.”