California Currents Coaches Newsletter

CaliforniaCurrents
Coaches Newsletter - Spring 2013



Please provide newsworthy information to USATF-Pacific coaches chair Dave Shrock at coachshrock@gmail.com for inclusion in the next newsletter due out in the late summer. For current information refer to: www.pausatf.org



Event Specific Level 2 School in Pacific Association:

The Event Specific Level 2 School will be held at CalState East Bay from 7-13 July. This is the first Event Specific Level 2 held in Northern California. The endurance and Sprints/hurdles event groups are already full, so apply ASAP if you are interested.

Refer to: http://www.usatf.org/groups/coaches/education/level2-1.aspx



The Youth Specialization Level 2 School is normally held in conjunction with the national JO's in July. Information forthcoming.



Association Coaching Education Level 1 Schools completed:

This winter at Sacramento CC and Chabot College Association Level 1 schools a record 153 coaches earned Level 1 coaching certification. Next year the Pacific Association will conduct one Level 1 School at Chabot College once again on MLK weekend: Sat-Sun, 18-19 January, 2014.


Summer 2013 Emerging Elite Coaches Camp, 30 June-4 July:

USATF's High Performance Division Summer 2013 Emerging Elite Coaches Camp will be held once again at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, Chula Vista, CA. This camp is for High School, Club, Professional or College Coaches who have had success coaching athletes at the State, National or International level, including U.S. Outdoor National Championships. Areas covered will be Sprints, Hurdles, Relays, Throws, Jumps, and Endurance. If interested and for more information and camp application refer to: http://www.usatf.org/usatf/files/08/081f3d6f-8c44-499b-86d7-4a981da0e80e.pdf?utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatf+05%2F07%2F2013+15%3A37%3A09&utm_term=&mid=905731693&ml=2651186, or contact Camp Director: Mike Holman: mhtrackfield1@yahoo.com. Application deadline is 31 May.



National Master Youth Schedule:

In efforts to coordinate all championship dates, the USATF National Youth Committee has developed this master schedule:
(regional meets in italics)
May 26 - Pacific Assoc. Open T&F Championships - Chabot College, Hayward

May 31-June 1 - CIF Champs - Clovis

June 8-9 - Pacific Assoc. Youth Championships -Whitney HS, Rocklin

June 9 - Golden West Invitational - UC Berkeley

June 14-16 - New Balance Nationals-Greensboro, NC

June 15-16: Youth Region 14 JO Multi Event Champs - Rocklin HS

June 20-23 - USATF Junior Nationals-Des Moines, IA

June 21-23: Youth Pacific Assoc. JO Qualifier- Chabot College, Hayward

June 25-26 - USATF World Youth Trails-Southern Indiana University, Edwardsville, IL

June 25-30 - USATF Youth Athletics Meet-same as above

June 27-30 - West Coast Regional AAU Championships and AAU JO's Qualifier - Reed HS, Reno

July 5-7 - Region 14 National USATF JO's Qualifier - Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill

July 6-7 - ESPN AAU Primary Nationals Orlando, FL

July 6-14 - AAU National Club Championship-Orlando, Fl

July 22-28 - USATF Junior Olympics -Greensboro, NC

July 28-Aug. 3 - AAU Nationals-Detroit, MI

Aug 3 - Hershey National Championship-Hershey, PA

Dec 7 - AAU XC-tbd

Dec 14 - USATF JO XC-San Antonio, TX

For the full 2013 Youth schedule and meet information refer to: http://www.pausatf.org/indexyouth.html





Association Open and Master's T&F Championships:

Sun, 26 May - USATF-Pacific Open T&F Championships
(open to those over 16 years of age of all abilities) http://www.pausatf.org/data/2013/tf2013pachamps.pdf

Sat, 8 June - USATF-Pacific Master's T&F Championships
(including 30-34 & 35-40 and up to 90+ year age groups this year) http://www.pausatf.org/data/2013/mtfpa2013champs.sched.info.pdf


Youth-High School news:

New Youth age division titles:
This past December at the USATF annual meeting all youth divisions were renamed. The new designations are the following with the old designations in brackets:
8-Under Division (Sub-bantam)
9-10 Division (Bantam)
11-12 Division (Midget)
13-14 Division (Youth)
15-16 Division (Intermediate)
17-18 Division (Young Men/Women)


Lee Webb, successful Logan HS and Mission Valley TC coach has been selected as the Head USATF Boys Coach for the Youth Championships team this July in the Ukraine with Clovis West's Martin Palavicini serving as an assistant coach.



Excellent high school meet organizational primer from the NFHS for the championship phase of the season:

http://www.usatf.org/groups/officials/files/newsletters/nfhs-pre-meet-notes/NFHS-Pre-Meet-Notes-2013.pdf



USA Paralympics needs your help identifying Youth athletes: Cathy Sellers of USA Paralympics needs your help identifying potential national team athletes. For more information view the Para webpage at: http://www2.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics/Sports/Track-and-Field.aspx

or email: Cathy.Sellers@usoc.org.


Jennifer Oliver's Sportshopes Foundation has been raising money to help high school and community college student-athletes move forward to four-year colleges. Services are provided to student-athletes free of charge. Ms. Oliver would particularly like to hear from coaches! For info, to learn how to support Sportshopes and for a copy of a Jennifer's newsletter visit:

http://www.sportshopes.org.


The Golden West HS Invitational will move to UC Berkeley's Edward's Stadium from Folsom, and will be held on Sunday 9 June this season.

For info: http://www.goldenwestinvitational.org/



Collegiate Coaching Changes:
Stanford Has A New Coaching Staff: Chris Miltenberg
has been named Stanford's Director of Track & Field and head cross-country coach. Miltenberg comes from Georgetown where he was the associate head coach for track and field and the head women's cross-country coach. Michelle Eisenreich: Starts her first season on the Farm as an associate head coach of throws. Eisenreich came from Brown University where she was the Director of Track and Field/Cross Country for the Bears.
Michael Eskind: Eskind comes to Stanford to coach the jumps, pole vault, and multi-events. Joining the Cardinal from the University of Virginia, he served in the same role for four seasons as a Cavalier coach. Jody Stewart: Coming from Georgetown, Stewart coached a pair of sprinters to the U.S. Olympic Trials and was responsible for a resurgence in Hoya sprinting. John Oliver: Oliver joins the Cardinal as a track and field assistant, working primarily with the men's distance runners. Besides coaching, Oliver assists with other aspects of the program, such as recruiting and equipment needs. Oliver came from Syracuse, where he was an assistant for three seasons.


Jenni Ashcroft has joined the Cal Poly-SLO staff. A former vaulter for the University of Nevada, Ashcroft, 32, was an assistant cross-country coach the past two seasons at Oregon, where she also mentored middle distance runners on the track. Ashcroft worked closely with Jordan Hasay a Pac-12 cross country champion and multi-time indoor national track champion. Ashcroft will coach pole vaulters, high jumpers and multi events at Cal Poly, replacing former assistant Jack Hoyt, who left this summer to become associate head coach at UCLA.



Long time Chico State track and field and cross country Coach Kirk Freitas retired from the university at the end of November. Freitas had coached the Wildcats for 33 years to one of California's top NCAA DII programs. Kirk will be succeeded as Men's coach by current Women's coach Oliver Hanf on an interim basis. The school should announce Freitas's replacement in June.



Ann Detmer, assistant distance coach at the University of California for the past three years, has left the Cal program for the University of Kentucky where she will pursue an MBA program. Replacing Ann on the Berkeley staff will be Shayla Houlihan. Houlihan competed in the USA Olympic Trials at Eugene as a steeplechaser.



Hartnell College in Salinas is in the process of hiring a full-time Cross and track coach after 6 years of part-time coach Chris Zepeda ably guiding the program.



CSU Stanislaus T&F coach Geoff Bradshaw resigned at the beginning of the season with Cross Country coach Diljeet Taylor assuming both head coaching roles on an interim basis until a new T&F Coach can be hired.



Additional Information:

Websites for additional information and resources: National: www.usatf.org; Northern California and Nevada-Pacific Association: www.pausatf.org; California Central Valley Association, from Merced county south: www.central-california.usatf.org; Southern California:www.scausatf.org; and San Diego-Imperial, refer to: www.sdusatf.org.












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