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OrthoArizona's Brewer offering top-notch service BY ZACH ALVIRA Progress Sports Editor
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live Brewer has spent the last 25 years traveling around the globe servicing professional athletes sports conditioning, athlete development, applied sports and rehabbing injuries. He’s helped Olympians, tennis stars at Wimbledon and has worked with numerous professional football and basketball players in the states. But he admits traveling has taken its toll. So, when he was looking for somewhere to settle down and not be on the road as much, he looked no further than OrthoArizona. That is where he has been providing the same level of care to local residents and athletes from the high school level and up since February. “After 25 years in the pros I was looking to base myself somewhere where I wasn’t following the athletes around, I could get them to come to me,” Brewer said. “As I was doing my research, I came across the work OrthoArizona was doing. When I sat with them, I wasn’t looking for a position I was doing it for research. But the more we talked we realized there was a synergy between what OrthoArizona wants to achieve and what I’ve been doing. “It was a perfect match.” Brewer spent �ive years training professional baseball players in the MLB. He also spent time with some of the biggest names in the English Premier League and Major League Soccer. He advised Wimbledon tennis stars for 20 years and did the same for Olympic athletes from 2000-21. Since joining OrthoArizona as the Director of Athletic Performance in February, Brewer has already started working with local athletes out of the North East Scottsdale Therapy & Athletic Performance of�ice located at Bell Road and 101. One of the athletes he has serviced is Pinnacle junior basketball player Jack Treasure, who came
ter on the court, �ield, in the pool or on the track. And he hopes to continue doing that through his of�ice in Scottsdale, other OrthoArizona of�ices or through the training clinics and speed camps he plans to hold at West World in June and July. “It’s a real opportunity for athletes – we are looking at 14 and upwards – to come in and get quicker,” Brewer said. “Sports are about solving problems in time Clive Brewer spent the last 25 years working with professional Brewer has started working with and space. The best way athletes traveling the globe. Now, he has settled down with Otho- local residents and athletes in the to solve that is developArizona out of its North East Scottsdale location where athletes Scottsdale office, helping with pain ing movement. The vollike Pinnacle basketball player Jack Treasure and non-athletes management and becoming stron- leyball is aimed at some alike can come to him for a variety of services, including develop- ger and faster on the court, field or in of the higher-level athment and physical therapy. (Courtesy OrthoArizona) the pool through different speed exercises and movement-based drills. letes, end of high school to Brewer only being able to squat 130 body and how it per- He will also host a speed and train- going into college. pounds. forms has been with ing camp in June and July at West “The hockey program Brewer worked with Treasure on his mo- him since a young age World. (Courtesy OrthoArizona) we’ve called MVP, movebility and technique with a bar on his shoul- growing up in the Unitment, velocity and powders to increase range of motion and pre- ed Kingdom. That is where he became ac- er. Be the MVP on the ice.” vent injury. Within four weeks, Treasure’s credited by the UK Strength and ConditionBrewer’s time with OrthoArizona, while squat increased to 285 pounds. ing Association, the National Strength and short, has been special to him. He enjoys Treasure, in a press release, called Brewer Conditioning Association and the British working for a company that values his expea “magician.” Brewer said simply that’s part Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. rience and is open to any suggestions he has of his role with OrthoArizona and he aims He found a path for himself that allowed to better serve athletes and non-athletes on to provide the same level of service to other him to become recognized around the a daily basis. high school athletes, especially those who world. To this day, even though he plans to He hopes to continue to grow his list of aim to become major recruits to the next settle down in Scottsdale, he still travels on clients that he trains and aims to help high level. contracts for sports leagues, organizations school athletes reach their full athletic po“I look at it like what does it take to build and even the military. tential to move on to the next level. an elite level athlete from the youth level Looking back at the last 25 years, it can “With great people you can do great up,” Brewer said. “So, it isn’t a new process be hard at times for Brewer to fathom all he things,” Brewer said. “That’s the key here. in terms of how I approach them compared has gone through. He’s lived out his dream We’ve got people who can see the bene�it to the pro level. I’ve spent time with the from a young age helping athletes prepare and the opportunity and the company cares NCAA level, and I know what the demands at a high level for their respective seasons. about the people that come through the are at that level so I look at what I have to He’s helped them rehab from injury, both door. do to make sure they are ready for that level minor and severe. He’s helped high school “Everything you do is about making the and ready to go to the next stage.” athletes like Treasure gain strength and athletes better. OrthoArizona has the same Brewer’s fascination with the human con�idence in their body to make them bet- philosophy.”
