🦈 What Makes the Sharks the Grid League’s Most Dominant Team?

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Unbeatable Chemistry – The Sharks’ 2025 United Grid League Dominance

The Southwest Florida Sharks had an outstanding 2025 season, going undefeated in the regular season and winning the championship in a close finish. 

Their success? Each other. 

A roster of 20 athletes with big personalities and limited in-person practices could lead to disaster. But for the Sharks, virtual team check-ins and holding each other accountable have been the key to their success. 

Remind me: The United Grid League is a spectator sport that features CrossFit-style movements, where two co-ed teams compete in a head-to-head race on a grid floor. The goal is to complete the movements as quickly as possible and out-race the other team to the finish line. 

The Sharks have been dominant in recent years, going undefeated in the regular season in 2024 and 2025, and advancing to the championship match both years. The Sharks lost that final match in 2024, but returned with vengeance this season.

• Keep reading to learn how accountability and chemistry fueled the Sharks’ undefeated run.

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How Coach Monroe Miller Helps Everyday CrossFitters Move Better and Train Smarter

Monroe Miller wasn’t supposed to end up here.

In 2009, he was a pack-a-day smoker, a recent college dropout, and worked as a barista at Starbucks. 

Every morning, a crew from a local CrossFit gym would stop in, and something about them caught his attention.

• “They just had this feeling of health exuding from them,” Miller said in an interview with the Morning Chalk Up. “I didn’t really care about working out or getting in shape. I just wanted to be part of what they were doing. I was kind of lost.”

So he walked into Hammer Down CrossFit in Chantilly, VA, got crushed by “Filthy 50” next to a woman more than twice his age, and signed up on the spot – even though the $169 membership ate up a third of his paycheck.

• “My sister told me, ‘You'd better go every day to make that worth it.’ That’s why I was so consistent at first,” he said.

Fifteen years later, Miller is a coach, content creator, and founder of Technique Team, a growing online community dedicated to one mission: helping everyday CrossFitters overcome their sticking points.

• After the jump — the three barriers Miller says keep CrossFitters from progressing in their fitness.