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CLINIC PRESENTATIONSTOPIC
PRESENTERDESCRIPTION
100/200Casey Gantt
Improving speed, proper posture and form
, optimizing recovery/preparation betw
een events and m
ental excellence
Starts 4x100/4x200
Kris BoeyExplosive starts, baton holds and handoffs, relay strategy, runner placem
ent and building cohesion
400Todd Black
Racing styles, relay selection and racing tactics
800Theresa Brannan
Racing styles and racing tactics
4x400/4x800M
arc SlyvesterBaton holds and handoffs, relay strategy, runner placem
ent and building cohesion
1600Jim
SpiveyRacing styles and racing tactics
3200Kathy Lanese
Racing styles and racing tactics
100H/110HQueen Harrison
Proper form, lead and trail leg drills, m
astering the three step
300HQueen Harrison
Building endurance and finding an even stride pattern
High Jump
Mike Lugar
Fine tuning the last steps of the approach, bar clearance, landing techniques
Long Jump
Casey Gantt Explosion off the board, landing techniques, m
ental adversity in challenging situations
Pole VaultEntry height selection, m
eet strategy, how to integrate other events into your routine
Pole VaultInnovative drills for each phase of the vault
Shot PutSeth M
cGuffinFootw
ork, glide vs. rotational technique, drills and championship technique/strategy
DiscusKunle Law
sonFootw
ork, drills and championship technique/strategy
Injury Prevention
Dr. J.D. ShepardCom
mon athletic injuries: prevention/treatm
ent and off season conditioning
NutritionSam
antha BluskeDiet for peak perform
ance, pre and post workout/race m
eals
College Recruiting
Panel of Collegiate Coaches
College division 1, 2 and 3 coaches compare and contrast standards, m
yths, processes, w
alk-ons and scholarship negotiation to high school junior and senior athletes and parents
Weightlifting
for Jumps
Seth McGuffin
Lifting techniques, specific lifts to improve jum
ping and success in each phase of each event
Weightlifting
for Throws
Seth McGuffin
Styles and techniques of lifting to create optimal distance in the
throws events
Weightlifting
for SprintsKunle Law
sonLifting techniques and exercises to achieve optim
al performance in
sprinting events
How to becom
e an Official
Matt Kendeigh
Application process, position duties/descriptions, training, requirements
and local association mem
bership
Rules Interpretation
Dale GaborM
andatory OHSAA head coaches/officials rules interpretation meeting
will be provided
Coaching Psychology
Kathy LaneseM
ental preparing your athletes to succeed
Off Season Training
Linh Nguyen and the University of Toledo Coaching Staff
Building a base to prepare yourself for the upcoming season
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COACH'S CLINIC RUNNING CONCURRENTLY TO ATHLETE CLINIC
KUNLE LAWSON is a form
er NCAA Division III student-athlete and assistant coach w
ith more
than 15 years of track & field experience at the college level. Law
son was nam
ed Capital University head m
en’s and wom
en’s track & field coach on Septem
ber 7, 2011. He was
promoted to director of cross country/track &
field in July 2012. Since Lawson took over at the helm
of the track & field program
s, the Crusaders have broken 33 school records, including 19 on the w
omen’s side and 14 on the m
en’s. He has m
entored three NCAA Division III Championship qualifiers,
including Joshua Woods (2012 outdoor, long jum
p) for the men
and Emily Sheets (2013 outdoor, discus throw
) and Emm
a M
cCarron (2013 outdoor, 3,000 meter steeplechase) for the
wom
en. McCarron w
as tabbed an All-American in 2013 follow
ing her 7th place finish in the steeple.
MIKE LUGAR w
as the founder and coach of Lake Erie Jum
ps Club, as well as an
assistant coach at Elyria High School and Am
herst High School. Lake Erie Jumps Club
has represented jumpers from
all over Northern Ohio. He currently has tw
enty two
state championship m
edals accredited to his coaching and training. M
ike trained hundreds of athletes throughout the years, including notable nam
es high jumper,
Henry Patterson (7’8”) and United States Olympian, Tianna
Bartoletta (a current mem
ber of the world record 4x1 team
). M
ike has coached all levels of athletes from junior high to the
professional level. The system that M
ike has created for training jum
pers is by far the most effective and productive
approach to the sport.
As an athlete, Mike w
as a high school all American in the
decathlon and an all-state pole vaulter. He is currently a masters
pole vaulter, high jumper and long jum
per, gaining all-American
status in all three. In 2008 Mike w
as the Police and Fire World
Champion in the long jum
p. In 2013 he jumped 6’5” in the high
jump to w
in the Masters Indoor National title.
SETH MCGUFFIN is in his fifth season as
assistant track & field coach at Ohio W
esleyan University. McGuffin w
orks with
the Bishop throwers and serves as the
team’s strength and conditioning coach.
McGuffin is a 1996 graduate of Lynchburg
College. During his undergraduate career, he w
as a 5-time All-Am
erican in the shot put and the discus, finishing as national runner-up in the shot put at the 1994 NCAA Division III outdoor cham
pionship meet.
LINH NGUYEN is in his first year as the head coach of the cross country and track & field program
s at the University of Toledo. Nguyen com
es to Toledo after coaching for the past 12 seasons at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the past seven as the head coach of the m
en’s and wom
en’s outdoor track & field team
s. Under the leadership of Nguyen, the Spartans becam
e a perennial contender in the Southern Conference, culm
inating in one of the best years in program
history in 2011-12. Nguyen was nam
ed Southern Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2011 after leading both the m
en’s and wom
en’s teams to conference titles. Junior Paul
Chelimo earned All-Am
erican honors under Nguyen’s guidance, the first runner in school history to earn that distinction.
DALE GABOR is the OHSAA’s administrator for cross
country and track & field and serves as the head rules interpreter in both sports. He is an instructor in the OHSAA’s Fundam
entals of Coaching program. He retired
after 25 years as the athletic director at Cleveland St. Ignatius High School. Dale w
as a 2010 inductee into the Northeast District Athletic Adm
inistrators Hall of Fame.
CASEY GANTT is in his fifth season as the assistant coach for m
en’s and wom
en’s cross country and track & field. He helped coach Josh Colbert to the national title in the long jum
p at the 2014 NCAA III Outdoor Championships. Gantt
started at ONU in early 2011 as the recruiting assistant before taking over the assistant role. He brings coaching experience as a volunteer coach at Carthage College and
from Grayslake Central High School (Ill.).
Additionally, Gantt has a bachelor’s degree from Illinois State, w
here he was a
four-year varsity and multiple tim
e All-Conference athlete. He was also nam
ed an scholar athlete and w
as inducted into the Lake County (Ill.) Athletics Hall of Fame
in 2010. Gantt earned his master’s degree in sport m
anagement from
the United States Sports Academ
y. Gantt has also earned his USATF Level 1 certification
QUEEN HARRISON Queen Quedith Harrison grew up w
ith a father w
ho had her rise with her siblings before school to
do jumping jacks, pushups, sit-ups and run. Harrison has
said of her name, “w
hen your dad names you Queen, you’re
kind of expected to be great in whatever you put your m
ind to.” Harrison w
as indeed great as she qualified for the 2008 Olym
pics as the youngest mem
ber of the team at only
19-years-old. Harrison finished seventh in the semifinal of the Olym
pic Games
and became the first athlete from
the Virginia Tech track and field program to
compete in the Olym
pics. Harrison also won the 2010 NCAA Outdoor 100m
and 400m
hurdles to become the first w
oman to w
in both NCAA titles in the same
year. After her standout year that also included winning the NCAA Indoor 60m
hurdles as w
ell, Harrison was nam
ed the recipient of the Bowerm
an award,
which is given annually to the top collegiate track and field athlete.
MATT KENDEIGH is an OHSAA Official. M
att has been involved w
ith officiating for 11 years working Track and Field,
Cross-Country, Basketball, Football and Volleyball. In his 11 years M
att has worked the OHSAA State Track and Field
Meet and State Football Cham
pionships. As the secretary of the Lorain County Track Officials Association, M
att has offered a class for potential Track and Field Officials.
KATHY LANESE is in her 14th season at Case Western
Reserve University as the Head Cross Country coach as w
ell 7th as an assistant Track and Field Coach. Lanese has coached a total of 12 NCAA All-Am
ericans in cross country and track. She guided Esther Erb, 2008 NCAA Cham
pion in the wom
en’s 10,000-meter run, and has
led multiple distance runners and relay team
s to school record-breaking perform
ances.
During her career, Lanese has earned a multitude of coach of the year aw
ards. She has been tabbed Ohio Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Coach of the Year seven tim
es (most recently in 2013), USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region
Coach of the Year once (2006) and head of the UAA Wom
en’s Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year tw
ice (2006 and 2008). Lanese’s teams have also
represented CWRU at every NCAA Cross Country Cham
pionship since 2006.
Lanese was a scholarship athlete w
ho competed in m
iddle-distance and distance events. She w
as a mem
ber of a Bobcat track team that w
on two
consecutive Mid-Am
erican Conference Championships (1983-84) and the
All-Ohio Cross Country Championship in 1982
TODD BLACK had a successful tenure at BGSU earning several All-M
AC honors in both track and cross-country including a 1500-m
eter MAC
champion title in 1993. He w
as also a NCAA qualifier in the 800 and also tw
o time qualifier for
the Olympic Trials in 1992 and 1996. In 1996 he
advanced to the finals with a tim
e of 1:46.16. Black is currently in his 12th season as Head Cross Country Coach and Assistant Track Coach at Toledo St. John’s Jesuit. Coach Black has 7 conference cham
pionship titles and has taking either a team or a
runner to the OSHAA Cross Country championships 10 out the 12
seasons. He has had the privilege of coaching several All-Ohio student athletes in both cross country and track and recently had a 2nd place finish at the Ohio State Cross Country Cham
pionships in Columbus.
SAMANTHA BLUSKE is an assistant track and
cross country coach for the University of Toledo. She helped lead the Rockets to the NCAA Cross Cham
pionship birth in 2014. Prior to coming to
Toledo, she was a volunteer assistant at the
Iowa State University
Bluske’s athletic career was com
prised with tim
e at Illinois State and Iow
a State. She enjoyed a much heralded
collegiate career at both Iowa State and Illinois State. As a freshm
an and sophom
ore at Illinois State, Bluske earned track and field All-M
issouri Valley Conference Honors and qualified for the NCAA W
est Regional in the 10,000-meter.
After transferring to Iowa State for her junior year, Bluske m
ade a huge im
pact on the program and w
as named the team
captain her senior year. The Chaseburg, W
I native was the Big 12 indoor 5,000-m
eter cham
pion and helped lead the Cyclones to three consecutive Big 12 team
championships and M
idwest Regional Cham
pionships.
KRIS BOEY is the head men’s and w
omen’s track
coach at Ohio Wesleyan University w
here he led the Battling Bishops to the top of the North Coast Athletic Conference. During Boey’s tenure at Ohio W
esleyan, the Bishops produced 131 NCAA qualifiers, 30 All-Am
ericans, 28 NCAC Athlete of the Year selections, 311 NCAC cham
pions, 813 All-NCAC honorees, and broke 117 school records. The w
omen’s cross
country and track & field program w
on the University’s Bob Strimer
Director of Athletics Cup for academic achievem
ent in eight of the last 11 academ
ic years.
THERESA BRANNEN is a two tim
e State Champion
in the 800 m and a 2010 Lorain County Hall of Fam
e Inductee for Am
herst Steele High School. Theresa attended the University of M
ichigan where she w
ent on to have a very accom
plished Career. Theresa w
as a mem
ber of 12 Big Ten Championship Team
s from
2002 – 2006, 800m Big Ten Indoor Cham
pion and DM
R Big Ten and NCAA National Champion. Theresa also excelled
in the class room and achieved tw
o Academic All Am
erican Honors, w
as a three time Big Ten Academ
ic Award recipient, five tim
e Michigan
Scholar Athlete Award recipient and three tim
e Leaders and Best Academ
ic Team Aw
ard recipient. Currently lives in Avon Lake with her
two tim
e Olympian husband, Nate Brannen, w
ho represented Canada in the 1500m
at the 2008 and 2012 Summ
er Games, as w
ell as their two
children, Gianna 3 years and Grayson 7 months old. Theresa still runs
every day logging about 25-35 miles a w
eek and does an occasional w
orkout to break up the monotony of a road run!
Theresa has personal bests for 57.2 for 400m; 2:07.28 for 800m
; 4:45.78 for 1 M
ile; 17:21 for 5k (cross country).
SPEAKERSALAN ROARK has been a pole vault coach for 32 years and is the director of the “Drill of the M
onth” articles for ww
w.pvei.com.
Alan attended “Emerging Elite Coaches Cam
p” at the Olympic
Training Center in Chula Vista, California in 2007 and taught a clinic at Pole Vault Sum
mit in 2007. He taught OHSAA pole vault
safety clinics for three years. Alan is the founder of The Pole Vault Factory vault club at Oberlin College. At least one of Alan’s
athletes have vaulted 12' each year he has coached. He has coached one 16' high school m
ale vaulter, (state champ and state record holder), one 13' high school
female vaulter, (state cham
p and state record holder) and one 13'7" college fem
ale vaulter. Alan also had 1st and 2nd place vaulters at the state meet tw
ice.
JIM SPIVEY w
as a mem
ber of the 1984, 1992 and 1996 USA Olym
pic Teams, placing 5th in the 1500 m
eter run in Los Angeles in 1984. He w
as also a mem
ber of five World
Championship team
s, winning the Bronze M
edal in Rome
(1987) for the 1500 meter run. He currently holds the
American Record for 2000 m
eters and the 6th fastest tim
e by an American in the m
ile at 3:49.80. He also won
the Silver Medal in the 1987 Pan Am
erican Games 1500 m
eter run. In 1997, he becam
e the head men’s and w
omen’s track and cross country coach at
the University of Chicago. While at the U of C, Jim
coached 13 All-Americans
and four NCAA champions. He w
ent on to become the head w
omen’s cross
country and assistant track coach at Vanderbilt University. Jim currently
works for ASICS Am
erica Corporation as the Team Sales Supervisor.
J.D. SHEPPARD II, PT, DPT is a graduate of Firelands High School w
here he was a state
champion and state runner-up in the 800 m
eter run. He then continued his runner career as a NCAA division 1 athlete at Youngstow
n State University. After his collegiate career J.D. continued his education at Ohio University
where he earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree in 2012.
Currently, J.D. works at the M
ercy Health and Recreation Center in Am
erherst, Ohio. His career background includes the developm
ent of a running analysis program at M
ercy as well as
experience in working w
ith athletes at the high school collegiate and professional levels.
MARC SYLVESTER grew
up in the Shaker Square neighborhood of Cleveland. He entered into track and field at an early age running in the CYO system
. He then attended Saint Ignatius High school w
here he turned his focus to football and
sprinting. The team needed to find a fourth m
ember of
the 4x8 and Marc tried out. He quickly found a new
calling in track and field.
After a successful high school career that culm
inated with a state cham
pionship and an individual national cham
pionship, he went on to
attend the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. There he w
ent on to be a three time All-Am
erican and w
as part of the 2002 indoor national cham
pionship team. M
arc then had a brief stint w
ith the Nike Farm Team
and the Oregon Track Club elite running under the legendary Frank Gagliano. M
ost recently Marc coached in
2010-11 for Case Western. He also had stints
as a speed and endurance coach for Crossfit San M
ateo and Courage Performance W
est.
PRs include 47.41 (400m), 1:47.41 (800m
i), 1:46.21 (800m
)
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