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Middle Distance Coaches
    Steve Bennett
    webmaster@oztrack.com

    Blue Mountains, NSW , Australia

    Mobile
    0415 641083

    Level 2 (Level 3 Pending) Based in the Blue Mountains National Park with a squad of National level athletes called the Flyers. Particular interests are the training of 400/800 athletes eg sub2min 800m . The squad trains on Mondo at Blacktown Olympic Centre. Webmaster of the Sydney Athletics Website and List Administrator of Oztrack - The Australasian Track & Field Mailing List.

    Shane Lakins
    lakins@adan.kingston.net

    Based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Head coach of men's and women's cross country and distance track for Queen's University XC & T&F Also Head Coach of the Kingston \ Napanee Legion T.C. Primary focus is training middle - long distance runners; also coach several young sprinters.

    Dr. Ron Gerughty
    esybron@aol.com

    Retired former fitness director and head coach of track, cross country, and marathon teams for the USMC/USN with particular interest in developing young pre-collegiate runners and older post-collegiate and master's athletes. Very interested in new, experimental, and alternative methods of training. Have produced numerous all-marine and world military xc runners.

    Philip Pinkowsky
    leah@execpc.com

    Track and Cross Country Coach at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, a NCAA division III college in Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA. Coaches an NCAA All-American at 800 meters in her first season of Track ever at the age of 21. Look foreward to sharing and learining non-American style coaching philosophies.

    Laurie Cavallaro
    lauriec@gil.com.au

    Level 1 middle distance/distance coach in Australia. Coaches a sprint & middle distance squad (400/800) at QE11, Brisbane and prepares distance programs (heart rate based) for distance runners and triathletes. Also a Level 1 Triathlon coach and Level 1 Sports Trainer. Competes in triathlons himself up to Ironman distance. Phone +61 7 33492602 or 0419 021273

    Roland Loser
    loser@iam.unibe.ch

    Langenthal/Bern/Switzerland

    Former middle distance runner with PB's of 49.91 (400m) 1:50.7 (800m) 3:52.3 (1500m) as a Junior. Coach of a young middle/long-distance group of girls and boys. Three of them are Swiss U18 or U16 national Champions in disciplines from 800m to 3000m and XC. One of them is a 15 year old girl with PB's of 2:19.8 (800m) 2:56.5 (1000m) 4:41.0 (1500m) 9:57.2 (3000m). I put my main foccus on her because she is very seriously training and she is looking forward to compete a the WJC in 1998 or at the EJC 1999.

    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: Posonidis Chaalampos
    mpampis6@compulink.gr

    Description: I train young athlets at a Greek city, Agrinio.My best athlets,two 16years old girls run 4.40 for 1500m. and one 16 yearsold boy 9.10 for 3000m.In my team group train other ten hopefull young childreen.I am 31 years old and i compete also.My season best are 15min. for 5K and 3.58 for 1500m.

    Location: Agrinio-Greece

    telephone: 064126413
     

    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: Graham Tattersall

    Email: gtatts@globe.co.nz

    Description: Middle / Distance Coach
    NZ Team Coach - 1997 World Track Champs

    Current athletes include 1996 Olympian and NZ reps.

    Location: Wellington, New Zealand

    telephone: 0064 4 4780 278

    Name: Mike Antoniades
    mike@nickelodeon-cs.com

    Description: Speed & Conditioning Coach Soccer Coach

    Currently working with Professional Soccer, Clubs and running Speed Workshops in the UK and Europe.

    Location: London , UK

    telephone: Tel: +44 181 245 0949 fax +44 181 492 0321

    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: Patrice A. Wilson
    zexus@pipeline

    Description: Coach Hinsdale Central High School (sprints, hurdles, and jumps). Head coach CASA track club. Level II certified coach.

    Location: Chicago, IL USA

    telephone: 630-887-9638

    Name: Dave Van Sickle
    Pic4Run@aol.com

    Description: 16 years coaching experience in United States. Club, High School, Jr. College, Elite. My main focus now is on High School Cross Country and middle distance. I'm the Head Coach at Xavier Prep in Phoenix. (Arizona Girl's State 5A Champions in Cross Country '95, '96, '97 Runner-up '94.) My personal running experience includes P.R.'s of 48.0 - 400m, 1:50.7 - 800m, 3:51.1 - 1500, 30:55 - 10K. I've also raced up to 30 miles.

    Location: (602) 650 1061 (602) 279-1346 fax

    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: 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.

    Location: Olathe/KS/USA

    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: Bruce Blizard
    BlizardB@aol.com

    Description: Running Event Coordinator,Richland High School Top teenaged athletes I have Have coached: Female 100 meter runner, 11.86;Male Mid Dist - 1:52.4/4:12, 48.8/1:53.7; Female relays 48.7, 1:43.8, 3:56.7; Particular intertest in strength training for runners: weights, plyometrics, biomechanics, etc

    Location: Richland, Washington, USA

    Name: John R. Kastner CPA
    xccoachk@msn.com

    Description: Coach XC & Track @ Daniel Webster High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma USA

    telephone: 918-272-4276
     

    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: 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: Mark McCabe

    Email: m-mccabe@district86.k12.il.us

    Description: Head boys and asst. girls track and asst. boys cross country coach at Hinsdale Central High School.  Work with 800, 1600 and 3200 runners.  Level 1 certification.  Avid distance runner.

    Location: Hinsdale, IL  USA
     

    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: 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: Ray D. Kuhles

    Email: rkuhles@olivet.edu

    Description: College Coach,
    Second Vice President, NAIA Cross Country Coaches Association

    President, NCCAA Track Coaches Association

     

    Location: Kankakee  IL  60901

    telephone: ph:  815/939-5165          fax:  815/939-7933
     

    Name: Edward Helgeby

    Email: helgeby@onaustralia.com.au

    Description: 30 years coaching at all levels; accredited level III coach; state coach for middle distance

    Location: Canberra ACT Australia

    telephone: 61 2 62815897
     

    Name: Bruce and Lesley Lehane

    Email: lehane@bu.edu

    Description: We work as track & field coaches at Boston
    University, in the United States.  Lesely has won

    several U.S. championships, as well as finishing

    fifth in the World Cross Country Championships.

    Bruce has been coaching middle and long distance

    for 25 years.

    Location: Boston, MA., United States

    telephone: fax 617-353-5286
     

    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: Ben Paolillo

    Email: bjpaolillo@athletics.purdue.edu

    Description: Head Women's Track and Cross Country Coach Purdue Univ. (USA)
    Coached NCAA National Champion in Heptathlon in 1996 (Corissa Yasen).

    Yasen and Jamie McNeair were my athletes and finished 8th and 5th at 1996 US Oly Trials.

    Have had 3 collegiate athletes score over 5900 points. (McNeair 6016, Cathey Tyree 5922, Yasen 5912)

    Have had 4 athletes over 6'0" in HJ.  Yasen 6'3-1/2", Tia Hensler 6'1-1/4", Beth Reid 6'0", Yvonne Netterville 6'0".

    Former athlete at Univ. of Wyoming (grad '82).

    Ran 8:51 for 3000m steeplechase, 3:51 for 1500m.

    Location: W. Lafayette, IN  USA

    telephone: 1-765-494-9126, fax-1-765-496-3400
     
     

    Name: Eric Cross

    Email: coach@satellite.co.nz

    Description: New Zealand Level 3 middle distance coach.
    Coaching a squad of athletes 15yrs to 25yrs Also coach 2 400m athletes and 3 race walkers. Chairman of Auckland City Athletic Club

    Location: Auckland, New Zealand
     

    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
     

    Name: larry eder

    Email: stanederjr@aol.com

    Description: former junior coach, 1977-1982, san jose, ca
    former community college coach, los altos, ca, 1990-1995

    club coach, 1990-1995

    div 1 college, santa clara univ, 1981-1982

    publisher, american track & field, atf athlete and

    cal track & running news

    Location: madison, wisconsin, USA

    telephone: 608.827.0806/608.827.0811 fax
     
     

    Name: Gwyn Potts

    Email: gpotts@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: 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: 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: 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: Dr. Cheyne Sherman

    Email: sherm1@dekin.edu.au

    Description: Australian Track and Field Coaches Association
    National Event Coach (Education) Middle Distance

    Endurance Coach for Australian Junior Team to Portugal

    1994.

    Coached many successful junior and senior athletes

    Location: Melbourne, Australia

    telephone: o3 9244-6474
     

    Name: Marc Beaudoin

    Email: beaudoin@nbnet.nb.ca

    Description: University middle and lond distance coach specializing in the steeple.
    I am a level 4/5 coach in Canada. I have worked with athletes who have been

    on 14 national teams including World cross country, Comonwealth games an Atlanta Olympics.

    Location: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

    telephone: 1-506-857-0088
     

    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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