‍ ‍“We are artists and athletes born to dream, imagine, create and move playfully in the sport of life.”

-Coach Murph

In the summer of 2012 at a sports camp in NYC, MurphBall came to fruition. It was a rainy summer. When it rained we had to move from the outside courts and fields into the indoor facility. This was not ideal. I would be assigned a small studio with groups of 20+ kids each hour. By mid summer all my games & tricks of the trade were getting played out. I opened the room’s closet hoping to find something new to use. To my surprise and destiny there was a mysterious looking blue bag. Inside the bag was a small, collapsible tennis net. A wave of creativity washed over me. I set up the net, grabbed some plastic line markers and a murphball from my bag. The murphball is a 6-knobbed reflex ball that produces an unpredictable bounce. This develops cat-like reflexes and improves reaction time. I assembled the lines into a mini tennis court. I called a kid over to the opposite side of the court. I underhand tossed the ball over the net and off one bounce the kid made an epic catch - the kids went wild. A short rally back and forth commenced and my little campers were lit up and locked in. An extraordinary moment in time I will never forget. The name "MurphBall" popped into my head after. I never vocalized it, thinking it was too egoic. When the hour was over the kids ran over to me with excitement and exclaimed, “we have to play MurphBall tomorrow!”

So the dream and journey began…

In The Spirit of Play,

Coach Murph

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.”

-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf