Thank you for taking interest in my business “QB1 Incorporated”: Maine’s very first ELITE football training, education and consultation service. My name is Ryan Stroud, and I am the Owner/Head Coach of “QB1nc”. Way back in the year of 2009, I was 5’11’’ - a local standout triathlete & quarterback at Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. As a junior quarterback, I started only 6 games filling in for an injured starter and threw for over 1,300 yards and over 15 touchdowns, the QB1 job was mine from then onward. I finished my senior season in 2009, as the #1 QB overall statistically in regard to both yardage and touchdowns. We won the Eastern Maine Class C Championship and had lost in our birth to the state title game, I won 1st team All-Conference/All-State as QB & then was named a top-10 finalist for the Fitzpatrick Trophy otherwise known to us Mainer’s as “Mr. Football”. The honor of my high school career was in 2009, breaking the single season passing yardage and touchdown records as a senior for both my school (Foxcroft Academy) and the “Little Ten Conference” (LTC). I finished that season with 1,685 yards passing and 28 passing touchdowns, in an old-school generation of Maine football & “RUN dominance” - throwing the football 5 times per game was a blessing therefore numbers like these were not heard of in this period of time. This record was etched into both sets of record books for over 12 years until my very first client - Austin Seavey the OG - broke the school record once more in his senior season, the fall of 2021. It was this very same “fall” season in which I launched QB1nc. as my full time career - coaching QB’s and others like “me” in Maine.

I played collegiately at the University of Maine (D1) for 3 years, and then transferred to Husson University (D3) to finish my collegiate playing days and graduate with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. I am very proud to say that I successfully transferred positions from QB to WR - and then earned a starting spot and captain honors at the new role. I rotated in the lineup as a junior and caught 4 touchdowns that season from the slot receiver position. I then played outside receiver as a senior and went on to catch over receptions, had 300+ yards receiving and 4 touchdowns in my teams championship run in 2014. We won the first ECFC conference championship EVER, and hosted a NCAA playoff game vs MIT that season before I graduated. The Husson Football program was literally changed by the athletes that transferred in with my class - we made history.

Having worked in nursing for over a full year, I had coached at the high school level and although coaching was incredible, my playing days were not done. I trained and marketed myself online - was successful in acquiring my first overseas professional 6-month contract in Pforzhiem, Germany. I was the starting QB, offensive coordinator and receivers coach for the Pforzheim Wilddogs American Football Club. We won the very FIRST league championship in the club’s history - and this was essentially the “last honor” for me before deciding to conclude my playing career. I unknowingly walked away from the “contract of my dreams” the following season that I had worked up the ladder for my entire life. A First League or “Liga One” contract - playing ball in the Polish First Division League for a first-class program, that would have provided the amenities, the pay and the opportunities I had only ever DREAMED of…. I had bought into the fact that I wasn’t good enough to really make a living as a PRO and that it was time to be a nurse or more realistically - a “grown up.” This heartbreak ultimately became the catalyst for my passion to coach and attempt to inspire today’s youth not to give up. My purpose on this planet is to train and teach young athletes from my area, to show them that their dreams are justified and help them reach places I simply never thought possible for myself!