CEDRIC Walker has been the Head Coach of the
Flower City Track Club in Rochester, NY since 1985. His club athletes have
represented the United States on our Olympic, World Outdoor, World Indoor,
World Cup, Pan-Am Games, Pan-Am Juniors and World Juniors teams and he has
developed 117 All-Americans (NCAA, NJCAA & HS).
Since 1991 Coach Walker has been a member of the
USATF Women’s Sprint Committee. His
national coaching assignments include, Assistant Coach, USATF Team, World
University Games (1993), Head Manager, USATF World Jr. Team, Annecey, France
(1998), Assistant Coach, USATF Jr. World Team, Kingston, Jamaica (2002) and his
most recent appointment as Assistant
Coach, USATF World Team, Paris, France later this year.
He has also served as Assistant Coach Western
Region, Empire State Games, Head Indoor Coach, Benjamin Franklin HS, Rochester,
Assistant Outdoor Coach, Benjamin Franklin HS, Rochester, NY. From 1994-2000 he
served as the Track & Field Chairman, USATF Niagara Association, from
1996-2000 he was also President of the Niagara Association and from 1996-1998
he served on the US Women’s Track Coaches Association Board of Directors. In 2002 Coach Walker was elected to the
Board of the National Scholastic Sports Foundation.
Joy
Kamani has
been a coach in the USATF youth program since 1990 and has worked continuously
toward the development of youth athletes several of whom have become national
champions in the Junior Olympics program and have moved on to compete
successfully at the collegiate and elite levels.
In 1999 she was appointed to the Youth National
Team as Assistant Coach for sprints and relays for the 1999 IAAF World Youth
Championships in Poland where her girls won the only gold by the USA team. In 2001 she served as Assistant Head Manager
for the team as they competed in Hungary.
She returns to the Youth Team as the Head Manager when they compete in
Sherbrooke, Canada later this summer to defend their World Youth title.
Kamani is also active at the organizational
level of USATF. She has served as a
Vice-President for Legal Affairs on the Board of Directors of the USATF Gulf
Association and is presently on its Board of Advisors. She is also a member of the USATF National
Board of Review. Her most active board
functions is as a member of the
National Scholastic Sports Foundation where she is also the national female
recruiter for the Nike Indoor Classic and the other meets hosted by the
Foundation.
ORIN
Richburg
brings with him an incredible coaching resume.
He was the Head Men’s coach for the 2001 World Indoor Championships,
1997 Assistant coach at the World Championships in Athens, as well as a member
of the staff of the 1994 USA/Great Britain dual meet in Birmingham, England and
the 1998 Junior World team. His most
recent appointment is to the 2004 Olympic team staff.
His
current positions include Chair of the USA Track & Field Men’s Development
Committee for the 200 meters, and membership of the USATF High Performance
Committee for national relay team development.
In this latter role, he was instrumental in national team performances
at the 2002 Tri-meet in Glasgow, Scotland between the USA, Great Britain and
Russia, the Under 25 meet in San Antonio, Texas, the World Cup in Madrid, Spain
and, the 2002 Junior Worlds in Jamaica.
It was in Jamaica that the USA team set a new world record of 38.92 in
the 4x100 meter relay!”
Richburg has coached several Olympians including
Aretha Hill and the bronze medallist in the 200 meters, Thomas Jefferson. He retired in June from the University of
Washington where he coached for over 17 years and currently coaches such elite
sprint athletes as Ja’Warren Hooker.
TONY WELLS is
internationally known for his expert development of emerging female
sprinters. His Colorado Flyers hold
virtually every high school record from the 55 yards to the 60 meters! He has been coaching youth, high school and
internationally ranked professional track and field athletes for over 35
quality years in the sprints, hurdles middle and long distance, long and triple
jumps. He is one of fewer than 25 of the
approximately 38,000 track coaches in this country who have earned the Master
Coach certification of USA Track & Field.
Coach Wells
is a perfectionist and a technician! He is also known for his system of getting
his runners into a “neural groove” by training the nervous system with muscular
shock therapy designed to strengthen muscles without adding muscle mass.
Since 1974 Coach Wells has been the
lead instructor in the sprints and hurdles at the USATF Olympic Development
Camp for Junior athletes. His national coaching assignments include
appointments as sprint, hurdles and relays coach for the Senior team versus
England in 1995 and with the Junior team in 1994. He is also a recognized international
speaker with published articles and videos on the sport. Over the years he has turned down numerous offers to coach
major university track teams.
Head Girls Coach – Houston Westbury
High School
ROSE Brimmer is credited with
turning the Westbury High School track and field program from what was formerly
known as “Weakbury” to a powerhouse nationally ranked program. Since 1992 when
her first group of ladies reached the Texas State Finals in the 4x200 relay she
has coached the team to a string of thirteen district and regional
championships and four consecutive State Championships and numerous individual
state champions.
But
Coach Brimmer’s program is also known for its tradition of sending each
of its varsity athletes off to college on scholarship… either athletic or
academic or both. Westbury ladies have been recruited by such schools as the
University of Texas, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, LSU, Alcorn, Texas
A&M, and Texas Tech to name a few.
Several of her athletes have already made National teams and won NCAA
Championships, including Raaison McIntosh (1999 Youth team, 2001 Junior Team),
Ashley Mitchell (1999 Youth team). And Stephanie Durst (1999 Youth team, 2001,
2002 NCAA Champion with LSU).
In
1990 Coach Brimmer was inducted into the Texas A&I Javelina Hall of Fame
where she set eleven school records, and qualified for the NCAA Championships
in the 400 meters and the 4x100 relay. She has also been honored with numerous
coaching awards including Girls Coach of the Year and the Woman of the Year
awards from the Houston Coaches Association, the Who’s Who Among H.I.S.D. Teachers,
H.I.S.D. Coach of the year 6 times, Texas Track Coach of the Year -1998, Texas
All-Star Coach -1997, Texas Executive Women’s Award - 2000; and the USA Track
and Field Service Award in 1999.
Russell Bates currently coaches
cross-county, indoor and outdoor track at Winslow Township High School in New
Jersey. His coaching credentials date
back to 1967 when he accepted his first coaching position at Woodson High School
in Crisfield, Maryland. Since that time
his athletes have earned no less than ten New Jersey Sectional Championships,
and nine State Championships for indoor and outdoor track as well as the number
one ranking in the State for 1983, ’84, ’85 and 2002. He has been responsible for at least thirty high school All
Americans and New Jersey State Champions most notable Olympian Dennis
Mitchell.
Coach
Bates’ personal accolades include South Jersey Coach of the Year, 1978, ’83,
and 2002; Courier Post Coach of the Year, 2002; South Jersey Track Coaches
Award, 1993; Philadelphia Inquirer coach of the Week, 1984; Star Ledger Coach
of the Year, 2002; Courier Post Coach of the Week, 1992, ’93, ’94, and ’95 and the Martin Luther King
Community Award in 1994.
Dr.
Robert Portman
Pacific
Health Laboratories
DR. ROBERT PORTMAN, has served as
President, Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of PacificHealth
Laboratories, Inc. since its inception in 1995. Dr. Portman has a Ph.D. in
Biochemistry and worked as a senior scientist at Schering Laboratories before
co-founding M.E.D. Communications in 1974 which he later mereged with his
consumer agency to form C&M Advertising.
He sold interest in the company in 1996.
PacificHealth Laboratories, Inc. is a science based nutrition
company that focuses on the development of proprietary products for sports
nutrition, weight loss/management and control of Type 2 diabetes. The Company's
research program works on development of nutritional products that stimulate
insulin release and reduce free radical formation. Insulin plays a critical
role in replenishing muscle energy stores during and after exercise and helping
the muscle rebuild protein damaged during exercise. Pacific Labs is the
developer of Accellerade, the first sports drink that shifts the energy dynamic
during exercise to improve performance.
Dr. Portman will speak to Summit participants on, “Getting An Edge: How Recovery and Muscle Restoration Can Improve Track and Field Performance.”