{"id":7671,"date":"2011-06-16T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2011-06-16T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:03:48","slug":"athlete-uses-sports-firm-to-reach-back-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7671","title":{"rendered":"Athlete Uses Sports Firm To Reach Back In The Com- munity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY GWEN HAYES<br \/>\nSentinel Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Martin<\/strong> grew up in Tampa, took the route most professional football players took by starting with youth leagues. He went on to make a name for himself at Jesuit High School, Northwestern University and even had a short stint with the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the times, athletes are expected to give back to their communities and <strong>Chris<\/strong> is no different. Currently, he heads a Sports Management Team in Chicago \u2013 OTG Sports Management \u2013 and says much of his success is attributed to the recruiting success in the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Although a young up and coming sports agency, <strong>Martin<\/strong> says, \u201cmy goal is for our agency to stick our OTG Sports Management Flag deep into the soil in Tampa and become the face of the Sports Management world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy plan is to parlay my background, experience and relationships as I continue to foster strong inroads within the community and ensure that the young men from the area are best represented by a firm who epitomizes core values, character and integrity and whose actions match their words,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Joining <strong>Martin<\/strong>, President, on the team are: <strong>Anthony Johnson<\/strong> (Director of Player Development), Sean Smith (Director of Marketing) and <strong>Tyrone Keys<\/strong> (Life Coach). The team is comprised of former players \u201cwho share the same passion, preparedness, and punch as our clients.\u201d<strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the recent 2011 NFL Draft, <strong>Terrell McClain<\/strong> out of the University of South Florida was selected in the 3rd round (65th pick overall) by the Carolina Panthers (DT). He is a client of OTG Sports Management.<\/p>\n<p>Included among the clients from Tampa are: <strong>Ronnie McCullough<\/strong> (LB), BC Lions (CFL), Hillsborough High and Bethune-Cookman; <strong>Torrey Davis<\/strong> (DT), <strong>Calgary Stampeders<\/strong> (CFL), Armwood High\/Jacksonville State; <strong>Eric Ortiz<\/strong> (LB), Tampa Bay Storm (AFL), Alonso High\/Belhaven University; <strong>Peter Hendrickson<\/strong> (OT) highly rated priority free agent, Tampa Jesuit\/Tulane; <strong>Jarred Fayson<\/strong> (WR) highly rated priority free agent, Hillsborough High\/Illinois; and <strong>Kevin Brown<\/strong> (S), potential free agent, Jefferson High\/Middle Tennessee State.<strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor Chris Martin grew up in Tampa, took the route most professional football players took by starting with youth leagues. He went on to make a name for himself at Jesuit High School, Northwestern University and even had a short stint with the Chicago Bears. Most of the times, athletes are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}