Dave Boon

Coach at Fort Collins Youth Athletics

In 2022, Dave was awarded the

Keli McGregor Servant Leadership Award

Sport(s):

Tennis

Dave Boon is a force! His passion and purpose are to serve others and get teenagers excited about making good choices and carve out happy and productive lives. Dave has coached too many kids to count and has helped shaped youth tennis in Fort Collins through assisting several different coaches, expanding the NJTL services in Northern Colorado and bringing tennis to the Boys and Girls Club of Larimer County.

Dave’s innovative ideas and successful programs have been featured in The New Yorker and Shape magazines and highlighted by award winning Wall Street Journal reporters Bob Davis and David Wessel, in Prosperity: The Coming 20 Year Boom and What It Means to You.

The extraordinary story about Dave, his wife June and a 13 year old teen, Gary Martinez, being buried alive by an avalanche on January 6, 2007, received worldwide coverage. His miracle survival story was featured on Oprah, CNN, MSNBC, The Today Show and in USA Today. Dave is convinced that he survived for a reason. Today his life work is focused on teaching goals, good choices, and value-based decisions in order to place everyone, but especially our youth, on the road to hope and happiness.