Why We Came Together

Coach Malcolm built J2N — Just 2 Nice — around a simple idea: young athletes get better fastest when they're surrounded by people who are good to them. Good coaching, good teammates, good habits. No ego, no shortcuts.

Coach Rayyaan founded E.P.I.C Labs — Elevating Performance, Innovating Change — to bring real performance science to athletes who normally never see it: speed, power and agility testing, clean data, and training built on what the numbers actually say.

The two kept running into each other at the same tracks, coaching the same kinds of kids, chasing the same goal from two different directions. J2N had the culture and the community. E.P.I.C had the testing and the program design. Neither one was complete without the other.

So in 2026 they merged into a single club: J2N x E.P.I.C Track Club. Athletes train the J2N way — together, accountable, just 2 nice — and are developed the E.P.I.C way, with baseline testing, event-specific programming and real numbers to show for it. Both coaches lead as Co-Founders and Head Coaches, year-round, from Pasadena, CA.