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Marathon Coaches 
    Fred Finke
    finkef@gate.net

    Orlando, Florida, United States

    telephone: 407-578-5666 (phone and fax)

    Level II Certified Lead Instructor, Head Coach of Lyman High School Cross Country and Track teams, Head coach of the United States Junior team for the World Cross Country Championships in Morocco in 1998, Coach of the South team at the United States Olympic Festival(1990), Coach of the US team for the Ekiden Championships (Tokyo, 1993), list owner of Coach-net (a list geared towards coaching the 14-20 age group athlete), One of the list moderators for the US based e-mail Track and Field list,Many time speaker at clinics, Served as an expert witness in lawsuits involving athletics, You can check out my other credentials and team successes and failures at: http://www.gate.net/~finkef

    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: Gwyn Potts
    potts@aol.com

    Description: Represented Wales in x-country. Represented British Students in track and x-country. Represented Great Britain at World Veterans Road Championships. Coach to middle/long distance runners.

    Location: Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, England

    Name: Ian Kemp
    vanya@ozemail.com.au

    Description: Level 1 distance running coach - working with a small group of athletes in Kiama & Wollongong. Also active in coaching multi events in Little Athletics.

    Specialise in road & cross country running & motivating the younger athlete.

    Still a keen competitor in 5k up to marathon distance.

    Loaction: Wollongong NSW Australia

    telephone: +61 (0) 2.4237.6189

    Name: Tony Bozarth
    ABoza68174@aol.com

    Description: Head Cross Country and distance coach at Olathe East High School, Olathe KS USA. Cross Country teams have placed 2nd and 4th the last two years in KS State Championships. In addition, team has won the last two State 3200 relay championships, and qualified 10 distance entries into last years state meet. Team has been honored last six years by state for academic achievment.

    Loaction: Olathe/KS/USA
     

    Name: Tom Derderian

    Email: tderderi@ix.netcom.com

    Description: Coach Greater Boston Track Club
    Salem State College

    USA Olympic Trial marathon qualifier '72, '76

    wrote Book on Boston Marathon history: "Boston Marathon,

    the First Century of the World Premier Running Event"

    Published Human Kinetics 1994 & 1996,  won the 1995 Journalistic Excellence award

    RRCA, Will Cloney award 1994.

    regular writer for Runner's World,  Running Times,

    New England Runner and others

    Location: Winthrop, Massachusettes,  USA

    telephone: 617-846-2902
     

    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: John Goodridge

    Email: goodrijr@wfu.edu

    Description:      Long Distance/Middle Distance Coach
    Athletes with pb's from 1:46.74 to 2:12.05

    Location: Winston-Salem,North Carolina USA

    telephone: Fax 336 758 4565
     

    Name: Rob Veer

    Email r.veer@wxs.nl

    Description: middle- and long distance coach (1500m+)
    Marathon coach(Dutch champion man)

    Triathlon coach (Dutch champion (OD)woman)

    Location: Utrecht, Holland

    telephone: +31-30-2581885

     

    Name: Yoram Aharoni

    Email: yaharoni@hotmail.com

    Description: Coaching mainly middle and long distance runners and young athletes in Jisrael Valley,Israel for 21 years

    Location: Beit- Alpha/ Israel

    telephone: phone:(Israel) 06-6533918. Fax:(work) 06-6533582
     

    Name: Marty Sonnenfeldt

    Email: TennRunner@Aol.com

    Description: Director, Youth Athletics - Knoxville Track Club
    Track and Field and Cross Country

    Volunteer Assistant - University of Tennessee Lady Vol. Track and Cross Country Teams

    Board of Directors - Knoxville Track Club

    Former Distance Runner - University of Tennessee

     

    Location: Knoxville, Tennessee  USA

    telephone: 423-690-3310
     

    Name: Bud James

    Email: bjcj2s@aol.com

    Description: Coach and consultant to distance runners. Coach for several nationally ranked runners in USA.  Also consultant to major races , race director for Park Forest Scenic 10 mile - Illinois which is serving as USATF National Championship for women- 1997,98 and 99.  Coached US Team Seoul
     International Road Relay 1992.

    Location: Homewood. Illinois- USA
     

    Name: Clemente Salazar

    Email: Salazar@ntslink.net

    Description: Illinois qualifier in x-country 3 years (Rock Island H.S.), and track 2 years. National qualifier in x-country
    and 10,000m at the JUCO level (Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS). All-Conference at

    Western Illinois University, in the AMCU conference in x-country. Assistant coach for 6 years at the high school

    levels for x-country and track and field with coaching capabilities in all track and field events, with Macomb H.S.,

    Richwoods H.S. and Woodruff H.S. 2 years at Western Illinois University as an assistant for the mens and womens x-country

    and track and field squads. Currently head coach for the Peoria Striders Track Club in Illinois, and an assistant with the

    East Peoria H.S. coaching all track and field events. My strongest coaching qualifications are the middle distance, distance,

    x-country, and the marathon.

    Location: Marquette Heights, IL USA

    telephone: 1(309)382-3509
     

    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: Ciric Dragan

    Email: ciric.sd@eunet.yu

    Description: based in indjija/serbien/yugoslavia
    primary focus is training long&marathon distance runners

    Location: indjija/serbien/yugoslavia

    telephone: +3812251480         fax +3812251480
     

    Name: John M. Devitt

    Email: jdevitt144@aol.com

    Description: H.S.track/cc coach, adult coach,RRCA,USATF

    Location: Billings, Montana, USA

    telephone: 406-245-6966

 

 

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