2011 MTCCCA Clinic Speaker Notes

MTCCCA NewsOfficersClinic InfoHall of Fame
Track & FieldCross CountryT&F/CC LinksCollage Listings
Home
 

2011 MTCCCA Clinic Speakers

Derrick Peterson  - 400-800 Presentation (click here)

Derrick Peterson enters his 11th year on the Missouri Track and Field staff and will enter his fourth year as a Tiger assistant coach. As a coach, Derrick has coached 43 All-Big 12. Performers, including every relay since joining the staff. These include 3 NCAA Qualifiers and a women's 4x400m relay Greg Bracey, 100/200 Leslie Farmer, and 400 m hurdles Lana Mims - 200m. During his collegiate career at Missouri, Peterson was an eight-time Big 12 Champion at 800 meters, sweeping all possible titles in his time at Mizzou. In 2004, Peterson made the U.S. Olympic Team in the 800-meters. The former NCAA Champion and six-time All-American is still the American collegiate record holder in the indoor 800m.

Ty Sevin, USATF Training Center - http://www.intrasport.net/1736.html click on link to go to his site and get notes.

Ty Sevin is the Throws and Pole Vault National Coach for the US Olympic Training Center for USATF in San Diego, California. Prior to joining USATF he was the Assistant Track Coach at Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Michigan State. He has held the position of Head Track Coach at McNeese State University and USOC/Olympic.  Training Center Track Program. His career highlights include that he is currently coaching 8 Olympic or World Champion performers. He has coached Kara Patterson (women's javelin) and Chris Hill (men jr javelin) to American Records He has coached 5 NCAA 18' Pole Vaulters, the 2007 National Pole Vault Champion, six 19' vaulters, three 6m men's pole vaulters and three 15 foot women's pole vaulters. He has coached 6 US Champions in the past 2 years and has an athlete ranked in top 5 in the world for 2011 in the discus, javelin and pole vault.

David Jackson, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) - PDF files/Coaching clinic_Jumps group_Outline.pdf

Coach Jackson is in his second Year at the University Of Massachusetts (Amherst) as the Multi Event, Horizontal and Vertical jumps coach. Jackson has been coaching track and field for over 12 years at the high school and collegiate levels. He is a USATF Level 1 & 2 coach in both the jumps and throws.  Jackson’s collegiate coach career started at Roberts Wesleyan College (Rochester., NY) where 1 NAIA National qualifier had in the 400m. His career continued at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) where he under the guidance of Antonio Pettigrew and Dennis Craddock worked with sprinters, women's pole vault and multi-event athletes, including three All-Americans and four ACC champions. Jackson made a move back to the north east to the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he has helped student athletes achieve 4 school records; 8 Atlantic 10 Conference titles; 3 New England championship title; 12 IC4A/ECAC qualifying marks, and 2 NCAA East Regional qualifying mark. Coach Jackson also spent time coaching at the high school ranks as a New York State public high school Section V track & field official, coaching sprints with ACS Track Club, Reflex Track Club, Nichols Academy and Churchville-Chili Sr. High. He also holds a BS in Media Studies from the University of Buffalo, and a MS in Communication Theory SUNY Brockport.

Jeff Pig, University of Georgia - Cross Country Training notes & Strength Training for Distance notes

Jeff Pigg began his tenure as Georgia's cross country coach in June 2008 after spending the last six years at the University of Florida and has quickly developed some of the nation's top distance talent at UGA. Pigg has coached more than 30 All-Americans in his 19 years of collegiate coaching.

Jeff Hartwig, MICDS - Pole Vault - PDF files/Jeff Hartwig-Pole Vault Clinic Notes.pdf

Jeff Hartwig is a 2-time Olympic Pole Vaulter (96,08), having earned a spot on his second Olympic team at the age of 40. During Jeff’s career he won 6 National titles indoors and out and set 11 American Records, one of which was becoming the first American to jump over the magical 6m (19’8 ¼‖) barrier. To date, only two other athletes in history have jumped higher indoors. Other highlights include 1998.  Goodwill Games Champion and 1999 Indoor World Championship Silver Medalist.

Jon Drummond, With Purpose, LLC (Olympic Gold Medalist)  - PDF files/Jon Drummond 42 steps.pdf

Jon Drummond, Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist and 3-time World Champion Gold medalist, founder of With Purpose, LLC / Speed Technique Agility Reaction Training™ (START) has transitioned from competition to training and coaching aspiring and professional athletes. Since the inception of the START program, (Las Vegas 2004), Jon has successfully reared athletes to high school state championship titles, elite athletes to World Championship titles and US Olympic teams in track and field, football prospects to NFL/CFL teams and has worked with the US Olympic Speed Skating team as they prepared for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Many young athletes have benefited from the START program by being ranked in the top-ten in the nation in their respective sports, progressing to the professional ranks and receiving full four-year scholarships to major universities and colleges. Jon is the Athlete Advisory Committee Chairman of USA Track and Field and the USA National Team Relay Coach.

Brett Halter

Brett Halter is the head Track and Field coach at the University of Missouri. Beginning his 17th season at MU he has established himself as one of the most successful and respected throws coaches in the country. In total under Halter's tutelage, Tiger throwers have garnered 36 All-American awards, won 16 conference championships, had eight U.S. Olympic Trials qualifiers and have had five gain membership on seven U.S National teams. He is also the coach of world champion shot putter and Olympic Silver Medalist, Christian Cantwell, who has been dominating the sport under Hatler's tutelage.

Aaron Moser - PDF files/Warmup routine.pdf

Aaron Moser is with M-F Athletic Company a long-time supporter of the MTCCCA Clinic. He is a graduate of North County High School in Bonne Terre, Missouri and the University of Miami where he was an All American in 2000 in the Decathlon, as well as the Special Teams Player of the Year in 1999 and 2000. He currently travels throughout the USA and internationally speaking on training with a focus on Dynamic Warm-ups, Kettlebells and Functional Training. The focus of Aaron's talk will be centered around Building from the Ground up a Better Athlete using Body weight training, and some various tools that may be new to the Athletes. This is a Learn by Doing Session.

Dan Lefever -

Dan Lefever enters his ninth year as a Tiger assistant coach and is responsible for Mizzou's jumpers and combined-event athletes. During his eight seasons, Lefever has played a paramount role in sustaining the success of the Tigers' combined events program and 2010 was one of the best examples of his dedication to the combined events. He enters his first year as the associate head coach for the men's track and field team. His career highlights include coaching 17 All-Americans, 11 Conference Champions, 1 Pan American Silver Medalists, 1 NACAC U23 Silver Medalist, 1 USATF Junior Decathlon Champion and 26 All-Big 12 Honorees.

Kareem Streete-Thompson

Kareem Streete-Thompson is the assistant coach at the University of Missouri. Streete-Thompson will serve as the Tigers' jumps and short sprints coach and he brings to Mizzou a very impressive résumé as both a coach and athlete. Streete-Thompson spent the last three years at Florida State, serving as a volunteer assistant coach, helping the Seminole women to a fifth-place finish in the Terry Crawford's Program of the Year Award competition. Since 2009, he has coached nine All-Americans at FSU, including the women's 4x100m relay team that finished as the NCAA National Runner-Up at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships. In that year, the Seminole women won the ACC triple crown, and finished fourth in the team race at the NCAA Championships. Last year, the Seminole women took ninth at the NCAA Indoor Championships and 20th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships Prior to joining the Seminoles, Streete-Thompson began his coaching experience as a volunteer assistant at the University of Florida for two years, working with the multi-events and jumpers.

Michael Dierkes - PDF files/Michael Dierks - How to train high school distance athlete.pdf

Coach Dierks completed his 15th year as head coach in cross country and will begin his 8th year as head track & field coach for Rockhurst. During his tenure, the program has grown in size to an average of over 80 boys in cross country and 115 in track & field. He has led 6 teams to the state championships in cross country, including the school’s first individual state champion. On the track, he has coached 5 athletes under 11 seconds in the 100m dash to 5 teams under 8 minutes in the 4X800 as he works with sprinters through distance runners. As a middle distance runner, Coach Dierks competed for his alma mater, Rockhurst, before going on to racing for the University of Notre Dame. He served as president of the Greater Kansas City Cross Country Coaches Association for 3 years.

New Sessions this Year!

Masters Coaches Panel

The Masters Coaches Panel is a chance for high school coaches to sit in and glean information about coaching athletes, that can be, but is not directly related to specific events. These Hall of Fame coaches will be sharing philosophies, pitfalls, victories and set backs throughout their careers. They will be discussing topics such as practice set ups, team rules, hiring of assistants, dealing with administration and parents, facilities, sharing athletes, life lessons learned and what the panel feels makes a Hall of Fame career. There is a vast wealth of knowledge base that will be on the panel as well as in the seats. Hopefully everyone will walk out with at least one nugget that they can take back to their program or event area.

Track Officials Session

In an effort to provide consistent enforcement of the rules of track and field throughout the state, MTCCCA will provide three sessions for registered track officials. The sessions will all be held on Friday with the first session lead by state meet referee, Ron Whitaker of Mexico, and is titled ―Right on TRACK for 2012.‖ He will be assisted by state meet clerk of the course, Dave Carlson of Columbia, state field event referee, Charley Welker of Monroe City and coordinator of starters for the state meet, Gerald Jones of Jackson. A second session to follow will be lead by Charlie Welker on field event rules and procedures and a third session will be lead by Gerald Jones on starter techniques when using one starter, two starters or three starters. Contact Dean Hays at deanghays@yahoo.com for further info.

2011 Panel Participants
David Jackson, University of Massachusetts
Jeff Pigg, University of Georgia
Jeff Hartwig, MICDS
Lyndall Dodson, Kearney High School
Michael Dierks, Rockhurst
Robert Marquart, Liberty High School
Kris Solsberg, Lee’s Summit North High School
Matt Abele, Blue Springs South
Dan Davies, Liberty High School
Kareem Streete-Thompson, University of Missouri
Nick Buckvar, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
Phil Lite, Staley High School
Ted Graves, William Jewell / Liberty North High School
Brett Halter, University of Missouri