Advanced Coaching Symposiums

presented by TARTAN

Advanced Coaching Symposiums and Technical Seminars both offer technical discussions of track and field events and training from top coaches in different event areas.

Advanced Coaching Symposiums (ACS) are longer in length, enabling ACS speakers to develop more in-depth discussion of a particular event or aspect of training.

Technical Seminars offer training insights from top coaches in an event area but are shorter in length and smaller in scope than ACS sessions.

The Advanced Coaching Symposiums will take place on Monday, December 15th, 2008.

There will be two separate ACS sessions:

3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

  • Duncan Atwood - Javelin
  • Vince Anderson - 400-meters
  • Boo Schexnayder - Horizontal Jumps
  • Peter Tegen - 3000/5000-meter Training

7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

  • Brian Bedard - Discus
  • Amy Deem - 100-meter Hurdles
  • Robert Gary - Steeplechase
  • Boo Schexnayder - Horizontal Jumps

Horizontal Jumps

Boo SchexnayderBoo Schexnayder - 2008 U.S. Men’s Olympic Team Jumps/Combined Events Coach

Boo Schexnayder is widely regarded as one of the best field event coaches in the world. Schexnayder is a USATF Master Coach and Chair of the Jumps Program in USATF Coaching Education. He coached 19 individual NCAA champions during a collegiate career that included stints at University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Blinn Junior College, and Louisiana State University. He has coached eight Olympians thus far in his career and was selected as the 2008 U.S. Men ’s Olympic Team Jumps and Combined Events Coach.

400 Meters

Vince AndersonVince Anderson - Texas A&M University (Assistant Coach)

In over 20 years of Division I coaching, Vince Anderson has produced consistent winners in the sprints, hurdles, and relay events. Anderson began his coaching career at Tennessee as a women’s assistant and then a men’s assistant before accepting a position at A&M coaching women’s sprints, men’s and women’s hurdles, and co-coordinating relays with head coach Pat Henry. He has coached a Division I All-American in every sprint, hurdle, and relay event and in the long jump.

100-Meter Hurdles

Amy DeemAmy Deem - University of Miami (Director of Track and Field/Cross Country)

In her 18th year at the University of Miami, Amy Deem has led the Hurricanes from modest achievements to national success. Before Deem arrived, Miami had never had a women record an NCAA qualifying mark. The Hurricanes now boast 133 women’s All-Americans and 11 national champions. Deem has also served as head coach of the U.S. World Championships Team (2007) and as Event Coordinator for Sprints and Hurdles for USATF’s Coaching Education Program.

3000/5000 Training

Peter TegenPeter Tegen - University of Wisconsin/Stanford University (retired)

Peter Tegen is one of the most highly regarded middle distance and distance coaches in the United States. Tegen’s Badger athletes recorded an astounding 43 individual NCAA champions and over 250 All-American honors in his 30-year coaching tenure. Tegen coached the Stanford Cardinal men’s and women’s cross country teams from 2005 until his retirement in the spring of 2008, with the women’s team winning all three NCAA Division I cross country team titles contested during his tenure.

Steeplechase

Robert GaryRobert Gary – The Ohio State University (Head Coach Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country)

Robert Gary is a two-time Olympian in the 3000-meter steeplechase. In his third year as Ohio State’s head men’s coach (and 13th year overall at Ohio State), Gary is coming off of the most successful Buckeye season in many years; in 2007-08, Ohio State finished in the top three in the Big Ten cross country, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field for the first time in over 65 years. Gary has coached a Big Ten champion in every distance event during his tenure.

Javelin

Duncan AtwoodDuncan Atwood - Pocket Videos LLC, 3-time US Javelin Champion

One of the world’s most respected javelin coaches, was the U.S. national javelin champion in 1979, 1980 and 1987. After earning his bachelor's degree in kinesiology in 1978, Atwood began a 10-year international professional career, winning three U.S. javelin titles and earning a high world ranking of third, in 1985. Atwood owns best throws of 308'7" with the old rules javelin, 271'5" new rules, is a principal coach in USATF's Elite Athlete Project, and owner of Pocket Videos, LLC.

Discus

Brian BedardBrian Bedard - Colorado State University (Head Coach Men's and Women's Track and Field/Cross Country

Bedard’s career at Colorado State began in 1988 as an assistant coach on the Rams’ staff coaching the throwing events.  He was honored as the Mountain Region and NCAA Division I Assistant Coach of the Year in 2005. He has coached 48 conference champions, 30 All-American performances, and two National Champions. Bedard has been a featured speaker across the country and has designed a nationally-renowned instructional video about discus technique.