Versus
Turning expert interviews into online courses. Edited for Six Foot Five.

The problem

Versus builds online courses taught by professional athletes, technical skills, mistakes, the mental side of the game, straight from people at the top of their sport. But an athlete talking for six hours isn't a course. It's six hours of raw interview that has to become a curriculum someone can actually learn from.

Turning long-form expert interviews into structured lessons is its own skill, and it's a big part of the education and e-learning work we do. The challenge on Versus was taking each athlete's interview and shaping it into clear, self-contained lessons that followed a defined outline, without losing what made the athlete worth listening to in the first place.

What we did

Six Foot Five brought me in as the editor. For each athlete, I took six-plus hours of interview and built it into eleven to eighteen standalone lessons, matched to the outlines the course was designed around.

The work was mostly listening. Interviews don't come out in order, so every usable quote had to be pulled, sorted, and rebuilt into lessons that flowed and actually taught something, not a highlight reel of a famous athlete talking. Each lesson moved through multiple drafts and feedback rounds with the directors until it was clear, tight, and true to what the athlete meant.

The series featured Kelly O'Hara, Adam Wainwright, Amanda Lorenz, and David Copeland-Smith, across baseball, soccer, and softball.

The result

A full library of digestible lessons that turned hours of raw athlete interviews into something people can actually learn from, structured, on-outline, and still in the athlete's own voice. It's a clear example of the kind of course and e-learning work we take on.