"We’ll CREATE your goal, CULTIVATE your drive, and CONQUER your passion."
OUR MISSION
Our Story
Building more than athletic ability.
IAP is designed to improve physical performance and ability through strength training, explosiveness and power development, plyometrics, speed and agility training, and other sport-specific needs. Led by professional athletes and trainers, IAP provides intensive, individualized plans focused on accomplishing established health, ability and lifestyle goals.
Through our training, athletes will be taught positive character and core principles that lead to confidence building characteristics. We believe by instilling these principals from the beginning, we will develop a sense of awareness in the athlete’s strengths and weaknesses in order to reach their full athletic potential. While doing this we will also exemplify the meaning and true essence of what it’s like to get things done the right way as a Christian athlete, keeping priorities intact.
The IAP staff has played, trained and coached at the highest levels. Now they are bringing their knowledge, expertise and energy to you!
Leadership
The IAP staff has played, trained and coached at the highest levels. Now they are bringing their knowledge, expertise and energy to you!
Ryan started Innovative Athletics Sports Performance back in 2018. Having access to facilities like the Nike (MJP) facility and Exos, he developed a passion and a craft to help athletes reach their highest potential. Over the years Ryan has worked with athletes ranging from the youth to the professional level in a plethora of sports platforms ranging from basketball, football, and softball all the way to fencing. Originally from Texas, that is where he gained his passion for developing athletes on and off their sports platform mentally, physically, and emotionally while seeing their hard work come to fruition. Being a former professional athlete, having the experience of what it takes to play at an elite level. He's dedicated his time to providing these young athletes access to a platform that they can showcase their talents and perform at a high level and helping build Iowa athletes for the state of Iowa.
Coach, Owner of IAP
Ryan Smith
Coach
Tyler Halcomb
Specializing in sports performance, Tyler has been developing Des Moines area athletes for the last 10 years. He grew up in Dallas Center, graduated High School from DCG 2007 and went on to graduated from Central College with an Exercise Science Degree in 2011. He has spent time across the country at top programs learning from the best in the industry starting with IMG Academy to CFSC with Mike Boyle and completing a mentorship programs with Todd Durkin at FQ10.
He uses his passion for strength and conditioning to design customized programs to help his athletes achieve their goals and ensure longevity in their athletic careers. Above all else, he loves to watch his athletes put their training into practice and compete at the highest level. The relationships he fosters with his athletes, their teams and their families is what he loves most about working in this industry and as a part of IAP Sports.
Aspire To Inspire
Creating a Culture of Quality
Here at IAP, we are a group of people with different backgrounds, different struggles, different upbringings, different races, that are becoming a family that loves each other. We work together for one goal, which is to be better. That’s the reason why IAP does what it does which is build a culture that’s bigger than any one person, any one sex, any one race. IAP is about building a quality culture within the community.