On the field
- Position skill development — football and basketball
- Route running, hands, blocking and release work
- Speed, change of direction and explosiveness
- Camp and combine testing preparation
- Film review tied directly to the week’s session plan
Performance Training
The part of this business that is still just work.
None of the rest of it matters if the athlete cannot play. Training is where Dollar Performance started, and it is still the room everything else is built on top of.
Who runs it
Coached by someone who had to earn it the same way.
Training is led by Cameron Dollar — a four-year Division I receiver at Charlotte who ranks seventh all-time in career receiving yards in program history, and who still holds the National Federation of State High School Associations record for touchdown receptions in a half. He now works as a football trainer and nutrition coach.
That matters for a specific reason. The athletes here are not being coached by someone reading a program off a clipboard. They are being coached by a player who went through the recruiting process, played four years of Division I football, and learned exactly which parts of a teenager’s training actually transfer to Saturdays — and which parts are just noise sold to families.
Cameron still trains alongside Chazz Surratt, the Seattle Seahawks linebacker and Super Bowl LX champion who was his quarterback and teammate at East Lincoln High School. The standard the athletes here are held to is the one he is still holding himself to.
Where the work happens today. Training is based at Rise Up Sports Performance in Denver, North Carolina — 3395 Denver Dr., a full speed, strength and skills facility twenty-five minutes north of Charlotte. Sessions run around the school and camp calendar, not against them.
What the training covers
Two halves of the same program.
Skill work without the physical base underneath it is a highlight reel. The base without the skill work is a good-looking athlete who cannot play a position. We run both.
Off the field
- Strength programming periodized to the season
- Nutrition and body-composition coaching for an athlete who is still growing
- Recovery, sleep and load management
- Multi-sport athletes: managing two seasons without breaking down
- Honest conversations about where the athlete actually stands
Cameron’s playing record per his Charlotte 49ers roster bio; his national high school record per the NCHSAA. His current training role per the East Lincoln Optimist Club. Rise Up Sports Performance is an independently owned facility; details per riseupsp.com. Chazz Surratt and Cameron Dollar were teammates at East Lincoln High School, where Surratt was the quarterback and Cameron a receiver (On3); Surratt is a linebacker on the Seattle Seahawks roster and won Super Bowl LX. Their continued offseason training together is reported by Dollar Performance. Chazz Surratt, the Seattle Seahawks and the National Football League are not affiliated with, and do not sponsor or endorse, Dollar Performance.
How a season actually runs
Built around the calendar the athlete already has.
Build the base
Heaviest strength and speed block of the year. Body composition addressed while there is time to address it. Skill work rebuilt from the ground up rather than maintained.
Peak and test
Testing numbers sharpened for camps and combines, because those numbers travel to coaching staffs. Volume pulled back so the athlete arrives fresh instead of cooked.
Maintain and protect
Enough to hold the gains, not enough to add fatigue to a Friday night. Load management, recovery and film. For two-sport athletes, the handoff between seasons is planned in advance.
In development
A home of our own.
Dollar Performance is planning a purpose-built training facility with an outdoor turf field in the Denver, North Carolina area. It is in development — not open, not under construction, and not yet finalized.
Turf, rig and recovery under one roof
The intent is a single indoor space that handles skill work, strength and recovery without moving an athlete between three locations in an afternoon.
A full turf field
A dedicated outdoor turf field so route running, position work and testing happen on the surface athletes actually compete on, year round.
Rooms for the other half of the job
Space for film, for the brand and content work, and for the conversations families need to have somewhere other than a folding table in a gym lobby.
Where this actually stands. The facility is in the planning stage. No site, timeline, dimensions, cost or opening date has been finalized, and nothing on this page should be read as a commitment or an offer. Published specifications and renderings will replace this concept section once they exist. In the meantime, all training runs at Rise Up Sports Performance.
Training
Start with an honest evaluation.
We will tell you where the athlete actually is, what the next twelve months should look like, and whether we are the right people to run it.