National Distance Running Summit Scheduled for Jan. 5th and 6th, 2007

Grinnell College will be host to a National Distance Running Summit, scheduled for Friday, January 5 and Saturday, January 6, 2007. The event will take place in the new Joe Rosenfeld Center on the Pioneer campus.

The event will feature six master coaches who will speak on all elements of distance running. Each speaking session will last approximately 90 minutes with a special question/answer session to follow. Coaches from all over the country are expected to attend from high school to college to professional levels of running.

THE PRESENTERS:

JOE VIGIL A true Master Coach, Joe Vigil has done it all. Coach, educator, motivator, diplomat. 17-time International team coach, Olympic coach, 20 National Championships, 425 All-Americans, 89 individual national champions. One of the great presenters at clinics all over the world Vigil is the coach of Deena Kastor and Meb Keflezighi, both Olympic marathon medalists at Athens.

SCOTT SIMMONS Perhaps the hottest distance coach in the nation, Simmons-coached teams have won the past 5 NAIA national titles in cross country! Level III certified by the USATF, Simmons has been a national team coach twice. His athletes have won 28 individual national titles in the past 16 years as well as 5 Penn Relay titles, 13 conference team championships and over 150 All-American awards. One of the hottest runners in the U.S., Fernando Cabada, is a product of Coach Simmons.

WILL FREEMAN Coach Freeman coaches at highly-selective Grinnell College, where his teams have won 20 of the past 21 Midwest Conference titles in cross country. He has coached beginners to national champions at Grinnell. Level III certified, Freeman is a former director of the coaching education program of USATF and has taught coaches around the world. He has written 3 books and published 19 coaching videos.

CHARLIE KERN The right-hand man of Coach Joe Newton, Coach Kern is part of the nationally-famous "York system" of training distance runners. York's teams have won 25 Illinois State CC titles and 20 National HS CC team titles. An outstanding runner in his own right, Coach Kern has given highly-regarded presentations all over the country.

LARRY WIECZOREK Coach Wieczorek is in his 20th season as the highly successful head coach at the University of Iowa. A 6-time Big ten champion in track and CC. His athletes have won 24 All-America honors and he has coached 39 Big-10 individual champions. Equally impressive is the 166 Academic All-Big 10 honors his athletes have won. In 2003, Wieczorek was named Midwest Region coach of the year when his Hawkeyes won the Regional CC title for the first time in school history.

BILL TERRIQUEZ Coach Terrequez is in his final year of an outstanding career at highly-selective Carleton College in Northfield, MN. Terriquez consistently has nationally-ranked teams in cross country. In 1993 and 1994, he was the NCAA Div. III Central region CC coach of the year. His teams have made five straight NCAA appearances in CC. Terriquez also serves as the alpine skiing coach at Carleton.

The cost of the event will be $70 in advance ($85 for walk-ins) and all attendees will receive bound copies of all notes and a special Summit t-shirt.

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For additional information please contact Will Freeman at (641) 821-8628 or by email at freemanw@grinnell.edu.