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Hurdles Coaches 
      Brenda Smith
      castaway@midcoast.com.au

      Taree, NSW, Australia. Tel/Fax +61 065 53 2429

      Currently managing a consortium of Coaches on the Mid-North Coast of NSW,Australia called the "Castaways",involving a Squad of 60+ athletes. Special interest in distance education/training and programming for multi-events. Level 1 Sprints, Hurdles, Relays.

      Loren Seagrave
      SeagraveLo@AOL.com

      3503 Runelle Place SW, Lilburn, GA 30047 USA

      Tel: (1) 770-972-5755 Fax: (1) 770-972-5645

      Co-Founder of Speed Dynamics. Sport consultant to a variety of sports for the development of speed and quickness. High performance consultant to numerous professional teams and federations.

      Bryan Lambert
      Kingston, Ontario, Canada

      phone - 1-613-545-6286 fax 1-613-545-6478

      remote-printer.Arlington_Hewes/Room_403@16135456478.iddd.tpc.int

      Description: I am currently the sprints/relays and hurdles coach at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Canada. I am also involved in the Ontario Track & Field Association and I coach High School Cross Country and Track & Field.

      Name: Patrick McHugh
      pmchugh@nscds.pvt.k12.il.us

      Winnetka, IL, USA

      Has run 2:26:40 for the marathon. Coaches at high school and college level.

      Name: ALLEN GILMAN, CSCS
      GILDER1966@AOL.COM

      Description: I have been involved in Athletics since 1963 in high school and college track and cross country and road racing (2:29.25 marathon PR) and for the past 17 years as a coach of girls track and cross country.  I have coached at my current high school for ten years and won 3 consecutive State Championships (89 to 91) and coached one girl who won the National Junior Olympics and National Junior Championships in the Heptathlon.  As the head coach I am heavily involved in every event which now includes the pole vault.  The girls I coach are from 12 to 18 years old.  I am also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.  I  look forward to hearing from other coaches from around the world.

      Location: Byron, Minnesota
       

      Name: Leanne Kennedy

      Email: l.kennedy@iname.com

      Description: Coach for distance running at Athletics Essendon (Victoria, Australia)
      Previously a distance coach at Uni of Melbourne

      Selected on National Junior team 1983 - 400mH - for a tour of USA

      then turned to distance running at uni.

      career ended by a car accident

      Location: Essendon, Victoria, Australia
       

      Name: SCOTT CHRISTENSEN

      Email: ChristensenS@Stillwater.K12.mn.us

      Description: 18 year High School coach in track and crosscountry
      1997 US National High School CC Champions

      8 State Titles

      USATF Level II Instructor

      Location: Stillwater, Minnesota, USA

      telephone: 612-351-8230 (office), 612-351-8049 (fax)
       

      Name: Adrian Faccioni

      Email: faccioni@science.canberra.edu.au

      Description: Coaching Track and Field for 11 years.
      Main interest in the development of maximal running velocity in sprint athletes. (Completed my masters on this topic)

      Currently undergoing my Level 3 in Sprints and Relays

      I Run a couple of businesses:

      Faccioni Speed & Conditioning Consultant

      Specific Sports Testing (work in ACT and NSW)

      Faccioni's Foundation Fitness (speed, agility, coordination of young athletes).

      Have spent time with Charlie Francis (Coach of Ben Johnson), John Smith (Drummond, Bolden, Green, Mitchell, Perec) and Bob Kersee (FloJo, Devers, Joyner-kersee)

      Distributor of Charlie Francis' Training for Speed in Australia and New Zealand

      Location: Canberra  ACT   Australia

      telephone: 612 62012936 (phone + Fax)
       
       

      Name: Ed Crawford

      Email: tcrawfor@nmsu.edu

      Description: Head Women's Track & Cross Country Coach
      New Mexico State University

      Location: Las Cruces,  New Mexico, USA

      telephone: (505) 646-1538
       

      Name: MICHAEL D. BOURDEAU

      Email: BOURDEAU.M@NISK.K12.NY.US

      Description: HEAD COACH HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS X COUNTRY, INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD TEAMS.
      USATF CERTIFIED LEVEL 2 COACH - ENDURANCE, WORKING ON LEVEL 3 ENDURANCE.

      ATHLETES OF NOTE: ANDY BLOOM; NYS HIGH SCHOOL RECORD HOLDER DISCUS 202'9"

                        4TH AT THE '96 OLYMPIC TRIALS

                        PAUL LUPI; RUNNING FOR SANTA MONICA TRACK CLUB - 800M AND 1500M.

                        NYS HIGH SCHOOL 800M CHAMPION.

      STATE CHAMPIONS IN POLE VAULT, SHOT PUT, 200M DASH.

      Location: NISKAYUNA, N. Y. -  U. S. A.

      telephone: 1 - 518 - 382 -2511 EXT. 362
       

      Name: Chad DuVall

      Email: cduvall@seidata.com

      Description: Head Coach- Southwestern Girls Track & Field

      Location: Hanover/Indiana/United States
       

      Name: William M. Welch

      Email: william.welch@rose-hulman.edu

      Description: college coach, former high school coach, 30 years, 16 years at college level. have coached in middle east for '64 olympic games. now at div. III engineering school in terre ahut, indiana.
       

      Location: terre haute, indiana

      Name: Dan Jystad

      Email: djystad@hotmail.com

      Description: HS-1985 #48 in USA 300m IH(39.0 FAT)
      12th year as a HS Track Coach--Specialize in

      Hurdles and Sprint Mechanics--Student of LSU's

      SPEED DYNAMICS

      Searching to become more knowledgeable(sp?) in the

      middle distances

      Location: Monroe, NC

      telephone: 704-283-5903
       

      Name: Randy Huntington

      Email: hunt895wr@aol.com

      Description: Univ of Oregon,  Univ of Ca /Berkeley.  Coached Mike Powell to world record in long jump.  Coached Willie Banks to 18.20w.  Kathy Rounds.  Others - Joe Greene, Gwen Loud, Leo Williams, Darren Plab, Sheila Hudson, Al Joyner, Gordon Laine, Sharon Couch.

      Location: USA

      telephone: 510-888-2210
       

      Name: ehenlon
      ehenlon@ccm.howardcc.edu

      Description: -coached sprinters and hurdlers at high and junior college level.-coached female high schooler to 14.12 100m hurdles.-coached 800mr/1600mrelay to state champion.

      Loaction: columbia maryland usa

      Sprints and Relays: on

      Hurdles: on

      Name: Eric Suender

      funkman@calcon.net

      Description: 3rd in Illinois High Schoo State Cross-Country Meet (1986), State Qualifier (Class AA, Track & Field) 1-mile run and 2-mile run (1985 & 1986) Full Scholarship Athlete at Bradley University, Peoria , IL. Division I All-American - Cross-Country & Track/Field (Steeplechase) Head Boys Cross-Country and Track/Field Coach - Mundelein High School, Mundelein, Illinois, USA (5 years)

      Location: Mundelein, IL, USA

      telephone: (847) 526-0869, Fax# (847) 949-0599

      Name: Dick Moss
      pedigest@cyberbeach.net

      Description: Level 3 Middle Distance/Distance Coach with Track North Athletic Club, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Also coaches some sprinters/hurdlers/heptathletes. Publishes Physical Education Digest magazine.

      Loaction: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

      telephone: Tel:705/675-7055 Fax: 705-675-5539
       

      Name: Ron Johnson

      Email: Rljtrack@tenet.edu

      Description: 23 Coaching experience at High school - College & Club
      NCAA Qualifier in College

      Location: Houston Texas USA

      telephone: 713-9841461 phone & fax
       

      Name: Jason Lindsay

      Email: jwlindsa@acs.ucalgary.ca

      Description: I coach with Calgary Track West - a club in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
      I am a full level 3 coach in distance and level 2 in all the other diciplines of athletics.

      I have coached a number of athletes to the National age group championships in Canada.

      I am a former team Alberta coach.

      I ran with Track West from age 11-22.  I was a decent provincial level distance runner, but whose interests were in the intermediate hurdles and steeple chase.

      I also act on a number of provincial T&F committees.

       

      Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

      telephone: ph: (403) 680-2232   fax:  (403) 282-2729
       

      Name: Ray Reinertsen

      Email: RREINERT@staff.uwsuper.edu

      Description: Head track and Cross Country coach at the University
      of Wisconsin at Superior. Teaching coaching courses and

      looking to expand our program internationally. Any ideas?

      Location: Superior, Wisconsin, USA

      telephone: 715-394-8409phone  FAX 715 394 8110
       

      Name: Duncan J McHugh

      Email: djmchugh@tuscola.k12.il.us

      Description: Head Girls Track and Assistant Boys Track at Tuscola Community High School.
       

      Location: Tuscola, Illinois, USA
       

      Name: David Ponas

      Email: DPonas@aol.com

      Description: High School Coach: Oakland High School, Oakland, California, USA.
      USAT&F Coaching Education Level I lead instructor.

      California Coaches Assn. member

      Location: Oakland, California    USA

      telephone: USA code     area code (510)  530-4544
       

      Name: Bill Rowan

      Email: Name: Bill Rowan

      Email: rowanbms@cdsnet.net

      Description: Have coached track and field for 20 years at every level through high school.  Am currently the head coach of a growing program involving 100 athletes at South Medford High School, the same school where Dick Fosbury and Bill Bowerman got their start many years ago.  I am interested in ideas on how to better promote the sport and sharing new and inovative ideas in training and team organization.

      Location: Medford, Oregon   USA
       

      Name: Marty Ogden

      Email: DHSTFCOACH@aol.com

      Description: Danbury High has won 4 indoor and 3 outdoor FCIAC titles in the past 5 years.  Coached New England record holder in the 300m (Jason Newton 34.8) and Class LL runner up in indoor and outdoor 1996.  Level 1 certified, co-meet director for the FCIAC championships and O'Grady Relays

      Location: Danbury, CT USA

      telephone: (203)431-1244

 

 

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Training for Speed by Charlie Francis

A recommended book on Sprinting. Contains plenty of great sprint training ideas. Written by the coach of Ben Johnson who ran 9.79 for 100m in the Seoul Olympics. 

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Stronger Abs & Back by Brittenham & Brittenham.
 

The above book is now available from the Oztrack Athletic bookstore.


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