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

-Coach Murph

In the summer of 2012 at a sports camp in New York City - MurphBall came to fruition. It was a rainy summer. When it rained we had to move from the outside courts & fields into the indoor facility. I would be assigned a small studio space with groups of 20+ kids each hour. Near the end of the summer all my games & tricks of the trade were getting old. I decided to open the room’s closet I’ve been eyeing. To my surprise and destiny there was a bag with a mini collapsible tennis net inside. All of a sudden - ZAP - a surge of creativity hit me. I set up the net, grabbed some plastic line markers and created the first MurphBall court on the fly. I could feel something extraordinary happening. This fun, new sport is certainly not complete without the reflex ball aka a murphball (a 6-knobbed ball). The ball has an unpredictable bounce which helps develop cat-like reflexes. I grabbed the ball and 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 makes an epic catch - the crowd goes wild. A short rally back and forth commenced and my little campers were lit up and locked in. I knew something extra special had just happened in that studio. I will never forget that moment and feeling. When the sport came to fruition that rainy day the name "MurphBall" popped into my head. I never vocalized it. I thought my name on it was too much. I called it mini-tennis with a reflex ball. When the hour was over the kids ran over to me with joy and excitement and asked me, “may we play MurphBall tomorrow?!”

So the dream and journey begins..

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