Coaches Panel

Ask YouthRunner's team of highly experienced coaches and athletes!

Bob Williams
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Bob was one of Bill Bowerman's athletes at Oregon, is the inventor of the pace calculator, & coaches distance at Lake Oswego HS. He is most recently become "Ask Bob" at Nikerunning.com

Dave Dunham
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Dave is the manager for the Teva Junior Mountain Racing Team. Last year under his direction they had their best finish ever as a U.S.team.

Douglas Wolf
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Former NCAA III All-American Doug, now specializes in Injury Prevention.

ian dobson
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Ian Dobson was a 2-time cross country champion and was 3rd at Footlocker Nationals. At Stanford he was an All-American and won the NCAA 5000m title and runner-up outdoor to Ryan Hall.

Jeff Arbogast
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Coach Arbogast has been a contributing writer at Youth Runner Magazine for about ten years now. He is the head T&F and XC Coach at Bingham H.S. in Utah and is one of the top coaches in the U.S.

Jen Rhines
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Jen Rhines, just back from the "World Championships" in Osaka is a 2-time
Olympian and a 5-time NCAA champ.

Kate O'Neil
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Kate O'Neill, standout at Milton High School, as a senior, she won the Massachusetts division II state cross country title and finished runner-up in the mile at the Massachusetts All-State meet, and as a sophomore and senior, she and her twin Laura led Milton High to state cross country team title

Leo Collins
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Coach Collins came to us from Dyestat.com and not only answers questions, but covers distance events and cross country meets in the Northwest for Youthrunner.com.

Michael Bergmann
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Michael Bergmann is founder & coach of CYOTC Oregon, is the Assistant Coach at St. Mary's High School in Portland, Oregon, and has coached many champion athletes.

Mick Grant & John Molvar
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Mick Grant and John Molvar have joined the team at Youthrunner after contributing at kidsrunning.com for seven years.

Nancy Hobbs
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If you have a question about "Trail Running or Racing", just ask Nancy. She is pretty much the queen of the trail with articles in every major running magazine, has co-authored a book and is the manager of the Teva U.S. Mountain Running Team.

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Sara Hall
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Sara won her first USA title at the CVS Pharmacy 5K last year. She was also a 4-time High School State champ and a Footlocker National Champion.

Sean Coster
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Sean is the founder of "Complete Running Programs", has been a college runner, writer, and is a coach at the Nike Sports Center.

Tom Petranoff
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Tom Petranoff, inventor of the "TurboJav", is a two-time world record holder in the javelin throw.