FEATURE Sports of All Sorts was opened in 2004 by Gene Daniels, a long-time active member of the area’s youth sports community who owned a different family fitness concept facility about 15 minutes away. Wing, a former information technology project manager, operated a non-profit organization called Beach Grove Boosters. That group later became the Northern Kentucky Youth Association which rented space at the previous Daniels’ facility which did not have bowling lanes. Wing served as youth director at Sports of All Sorts from its opening until 2013 when he and two others were
Basketball courts that double for Volleyball.
designated as the court-appointed receivers when Daniels encountered a financial hardship and had to walk away from the business. That lasted until June 2015 when they outright purchased the place. Wing’s partners are Dr. Anil Goel, a cardiologist who lives in the Detroit area, and Dr. Deepak Mittal, a nephrology and internal medicine specialist who lives in nearby Alexandria. The doctors are very hands-off with Goel rarely 50
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visiting and Mittal stopping by some weekends with his children. “Both are very intelligent people who have helped me succeed in what I wanted to do. We all had the same vision for the facility which was kind of scary,” Wink said. “We wanted a place for family and kids all together for the community. It was really a great fit.” Wink had always wanted to own his own sports complex since he was a little boy. He picked that vibe up from his father who wanted it for the community. “Back then it was slim pickings because you just didn’t see that concept. I just took what he envisioned and partnered up with somebody who had that and then from there to now, here we are.”