Youth Inc. co-founder Greg Olsen grew up in New Jersey watching his father coach football at Wayne Hills and idolized the players who came through the program. Greg and his brothers were ball boys and water boys for their dad’s team and dreamed of one day playing for their father.
It almost didn’t happen.
The Olsens lived outside the Wayne Hills School District and Greg’s parents petitioned the school board to allow the Olsen boys to play for their dad. It was denied. So the Olsens sold their house and bought another in the district to remove the road block.
The rest, as they say, is history. Greg and his brothers got to play for their father and it left an indelible mark. Chris Olsen was harder on his boys than the other kids, but Greg and his brothers wouldn’t have it any other way. Greg calls his father the best coach he’s ever had and says that set the tone for the type of father and coach he is today.
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