BOB SEVENE
Bob has been coaching elite athletes since 1974 when be became the head coach of the Boston Track Club. After a four year stint as the head coach at Boston University, he took over as head coach and administrator of Nike’s elite track team, Athletics West, in 1982. Coaching more than seventy-five professional runners, twenty-three of them became members of the 1984 US Olympic Team. In that Olympics, Bob coached Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first woman Olympic marathon champion. Recently, he coached Team USA Monterey Bay starting in 2003, currently coaches Olympian Blake Russell, and is now in his second year coaching CSU Monterey’s cross country team.
AL BERRIN
Al is a thirty-one year coaching veteran. While holding USATF Level II Certification in sprints, hurdles, relays, and endurance, he has also served as a USATF Coaching Education Instructor. A retired public school teacher, he holds a M.A.P.E in Administration from St. Mary’s University.
For three years, Al was an assistant coach for the Nike Farm Team, where he worked with post-collegiate elite distance runners preparing for international competition. In addition to holding assistant coaching posts at University of San Francisco and Skyline College, he has coached at five high schools: St. Ignatius, South San Francisco, Pinole Valley, El Camino, and Westmoor. Al was voted the 2001-2 CIF Central Coast Section HS Track and Field Coach of the Year. A long time runner and student of the sport, Al has attended all but one Olympic Trials since ‘56.
Hear what Al has to say about coaching for the Bay Area Track Club in this video.
TONY KAUKE
Tony has eleven years of experience coaching distance runners. A participant of the 2007 USATF Junior Elite coaching camp at the Olympic Training Center, he has coached at Piedmont High School, City College of San Francisco, and the Impala Racing Team—a post-collegiate training group based in San Francisco.
While at City College, he coached eleven Junior College All-Americans, twenty two conference champions, and won three team state titles. His Piedmont cross country teams enjoyed similar success, winning six league championships and three sectional crowns. Tony also coached three individual section champions in both track and cross country.
A senior buyer at The Sports Basement and Bay Area native, Tony had a decorated running career at The College of Wooster. He won six conference titles, set three school records, and was an Academic All-American.
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