Rodolfo Rodriguez-Chomat

Director/Co-Founder

Rodolfo Rodriguez-Chomat is the Founder and President of In the Zone Sports, Inc., and www.inthezonemag.com. He started the website and company with the idea of promoting high school student-athletes in a magazine to highlight their accomplishments as the local papers could only do so much.

Later on, Rodriguez-Chomat formed the website that would become the main tool in promoting high school student-athletes in South Florida.

A native of Miami, Florida, Rodriguez-Chomat played football, basketball and track and field while attending Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School. He also is an avid follower of tennis, volleyball and baseball.

Having played so many sports, Rodriguez-Chomat found it necessary to promote high school athletics.

With Coach Mario Lot's help, Rodriguez-Chomat and he founded Team In the Zone in April 2002 in the span on one week.

The first Team In the Zone roster that competed at the Coast to Coast tournament in Coral Springs consisted of current FIU point guard Antonio Jones, former Key West stars Eric Brown, Humberto Palacio, Keith McLeod and Tony Roberts, Northwest Christian's ultra fast back court in Eon Rivera and Derrick Parker, Palmer Trinity's gunner Chris Sanz, South Dade's Rafael Feliz and Isaac Myers, and North Miami Beach's Gerrysen Monestime and Pierre Simbert.

Rodriguez-Chomat is a paralegal and realtor by day, freelance high school prep writer for the Miami Herald, and freelance writer for CanesTime Magazine and CanesTime.com while also being the promoter of the Annual Zoned Out Shootout which is heading into it's fourth year at Miami Norland High School December 20-23, 2006.

Mario Lot

Coach/Co-Founder

Mario Lot is the Co-Founder of Team In the Zone and assistant coach for the 2006 team.

Coach Lot has been an assistant coach at Key West High School for the past four years. He has helped lead the Conchs to the regional playoffs over the past five seasons.

Coach Lot brings a wealth of knowledge of the game and is a great friend to the players on the team as he can relate to kids the way most coaches can't.

He treats his players as if they were his own kids and is an intergral part of the staff.

In 2002, Coach Lot brought the idea of having a travel team to Rodolfo Rodriguez-Chomat. He had four players from Key West High School who were not being given an opportunity to play AAU ball.

That alone kick started the program and for that we are quite grateful to Coach Lot as should all the kids who have gone through Team In the Zone's program.

Lawton Williams III

Special Assistant

Lawton Williams III has been a member of the In the Zone family since its inception.

As a Special Assistant, he runs the team practices and graciously donates the use of the Miami Norland High School gym where he has been head coach for the past four years.

After taking over at Norland following a number of years as assistant coach at North Miami Beach and head coach of the Junior Varsity program, Williams III took a group of young sophomores in Zachery Peacock, Albert Abrahams, Nicholas Taylor and Denzel Rankin and made them champions.

After a 10-11 season his first year, which included a win over eventual Class 1A state champion, Williams III led the Vikings to a 24-5 record and a berth in the Regional Finals as well a win over the state's top ranked Boyd Anderson Cobras.

Just short of a state championship, Williams III led the Vikings to the school's first basketball state championship with a 28-6 record. The Vikings won at Krop to advance to Lakeland before knocking off Palm Beach Lakes in the state semifinals and Winter Park to capture the state title.

Following the graduation of Peacock, Abrahams, Taylor and Rankin, Williams III took a group of very young players, featuring 9 underclassmen, most of whom never sniffed the court in the state title run and led them to a 22-5 record.

Williams III work ethic and tireless attention to detail make him a very well needed addition to the staff.