Ohio High School Hall of Fame football coach Lee Owens is a motivational speaker and team-culture coach. Coach Owens is a leader and a winner. He has built winning teams and won championships everywhere he has coached. In 2023, Lee retired from coaching after winning his sixteenth football championship. During his career, he took over struggling football programs at six different schools and led teach of hem to championship seasons. His football coaching stops included the legendary Massillon Washington High School and Big Ten powerhouse Ohio State University. His résumé is punctuated by coaching NFL Hall of Fame football players Jason Taylor and Orlando Pace. Owens was recognized seventeen times as Coach of the Year and three times as a finalist for the NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year. In addition, he was selected the 1985 Ohio High School Coach of the Year and the 2012 Ohio College Coach of the Year. Beyond the gridiron, Owens became one of college football's truly impressive inspirational speakers.

Larry Phillips is an author, editor, and writer with more than one hundred writing and editing awards at the international, national, and state levels. He has been selected Ohio's Sportswriter of the Year and Sports Columnist of the Year by both the Associated Press and the Ohio Prep Sports Writers Association. Today he is the editor of three online news agencies, Richland Source, Ashland Source, and Knox Pages. Each is a hyperlocal online news agency in North Central Ohio. Larry is a thirty-five-year veteran of the news writing industry who graduated from Ohio University with a journalism degree in 1989. He has worked as a news reporter, sports reporter, city editor, news editor, lifestyles editor, sports editor, and managing editor in the Thomson and Gannett newspaper chains. He has authored two books, Ohio's Autumn Legends, Volume I and Volume II, on a personal passion topic, Ohio high school football. Larry and his wife, Laura, live in Mansfield, Ohio, with their two children, Bryan and Sydney.