T&F Athletes Coached

2013 OSAA Girls 4x400m Champions (3:52.48)
3rd Fastest Girls 4x400m time in Oregon State History (at time of event)
2013 Metro League Champions Girls 4x400
2013 Nike Jesuit Twilight 4x400m Champions - DQ
2013 Nike Jesuit Twilight 4x200m Champions
Lincoln HS School Record Holders Girls 4x400m (3:52.48)
2012 OSAA 6A 4x400m 2nd Place
2012 Centennial Invite 2nd Place
2012 Nike Jesuit Twilight 3rd Place

Coach Notes: This girls team was comprised 3 Juniors, a sophomore and a freshman. Coach Charlotte Richardson did the primary 400/800/1600 training for 3 of the athletes, Tess Michaelson/Samara Michaelson/Rebecca Pearson while Emma Lambert (Hurdles/Vault) & Jada Smith (Sprint) were trained by myself and Billy McKinney while Tinker Hatfield was Emma's pole vault coach.

My job was to implement race strategy, relay order, handoff's and blocks for the entire team. We would move the order around quite frequently to create different scenarios for our runners throughout the season and keep our opponents off balance. We kept 5 girls prepared to run at all times which paid off at the state meet when our Freshman Sprinter Jada Smith hurt her hamstring in the 200. Emma Lambert finished her 300 hurdle final and immediately started cooling down to run. I switched the order one last time moving Emma to 2nd leg because I felt like having our sprinter on the 2nd leg in this particular race would help us get the win, which it did.

Girls 4x1600: US #4, School Record (20:19.61)
Girls DMR: US #19, School Record (12:00.07)
2016 Dublin Distance Fiesta DMR Champions
2016 Stanford Invitational 2nd Place Girls DMR
2016 3rd place girls 4x1600 Mt. Sac Relays

Coach Notes: I was blessed to inherit one of the top distance programs in the country at Monte Vista HS (Danville). Former Coach Mike Davis and the current MV Distance coach Mandee Starn had done a great job of building a championship team on the boys and girls side. This team had 5 runners we could rotate (Starn, Fuhriman, Coney, Coney, Corda) at any given moment allowing us to be competitive in all distance relays while allowing our runners to focus on individual races. In the Girls DMR we never actually got to use our fastest combination:

1200: Corda (3:35)
400: Cervantes (1:00
800: Fuhriman (2:10)
1600: Starn (4:49)
Aggregate Time: (11:34) - US #3

All athletes stayed healthy and had great individual post seasons.

College: Stanford Track and Field

2013 HS Junior Season
Oregon 6A 400m State Champion - (55.35)
Anchor Leg Oregon 6A 4x400m Girls State Champion - (3:52.47) School Record
Oregon 6A 800m 2nd Place - (2:13.83)
20.5 Point Scored @ State Meet

2012 HS Sophomore Season
Oregon 6A 2nd Place 800m (2:12.50)
Anchor Leg Oregon 6A 4x400 Girls 3rd Place - (3:57.23)

Coach Notes: Tess Michaelson is one of the best 400/800 girls in Oregon State HS Track and Field history. Tess and her twin sister Samara transferred to Lincoln during my first season as the head sprint coach under Coach Charlotte Richardson. Tess and Samara had never run track before and were looking to try it out. Tess trained with excellent distance coaches led by Coach Charlotte, whom I consider to be one of the top 400/800 coaches around.

During her junior season the goal was always for Tess to win the girls 800m at the state meet. During the regular season Tess had the number one 400 time in the state by almost a full second. The way Tess trained and her special ability to recover and compete made her to the perfect candidate for the 400/800/4x400 triple at the state meet.

I didn't want to leave the 400m girls title to a lesser opponent when, based on my analysis, Tess had 100 percent chance of winning. Coach Charlotte agreed and Tess pulled off one of the great long sprint weekends in Oregon girls high school history by running prelims and finals in back to back days in the 400/800 with a 4x400 to finish day two. Tess finished 1st in the 400, 2nd in the 800 and anchored a come from behind win in the fastest Girls 4x400 race in state history with 6 teams running under 3:54.

Lincoln HS Boys 4x400m School Record - 3.21.08
2013 Metro League Champions Boys 4x400m
2013 Nike Jesuit Twilight Boys 4x400m Champions
2013 Nike Jesuit Twilight Boys 4x200m Champions
2013 Centennial Invite Boys 4x400m Champions - DQ
2013 Oregon 6A 3rd Place Boys 4x400

Coach Notes: This team went on one of the greatest runs I've seen in a while. During the 2013 season they had the fastest 4x400 time in the state while winning the Centennial Invitational, Nike Jesuit Twilight 4x400 and 4x200 & the Metro League 4x400. This put a target on their back at the state meet. The boys ended up finishing 3rd overall at the state meet but captured the school record while at it. This team overachieved in my opinion because we did not expect to have this much success. Coach Charlotte Richardson trained Zain, Jaray & Ryan for endurance and they spent their speed days training with myself. Keegan trained for primarily HJ with minimal 400 training but did an excellent job running the anchor leg for us.

Zain Hannan (Senior): 2nd Season Running Track
Jaray Kindell (Junior): Jumper/Mid-Sprinter
Ryan Fujita (Junior): 400/800 Runner
Keegan Lape (Senior): High Jumper

Monte Vista Boys School Record 4x400m - (3:20.19)
5th @ NCS MOC Boys 4x400m
All 4 Runners in School Top 10 All-Time 400m

Coach Notes This is one of my favorite relay teams I've ever coached. 4 Seniors, 4 Different Athletes, Legends in school history. These 4 guys battled it out on the tough California relay circuit for 2 full seasons. Every race was important to this team as I made sure to keep pressure on these 4 extremely talented and versatile athletes. This team was led by Elijah Sheppard who is the best male combo sprinter that I have ever coached. Matt Friedler would always join us late from Soccer post-season play, Danny was the lead in multiple school plays and would train on his own a lot of the time, and this was Severino's first year not pole vaulting and focusing on running. They finally broke the school record at Cal-Berkeley stadium in their final race at NCS MOC before graduation cementing them as the greatest 4x400 team in Monte Vista school history.

I brought in Coach Dash Oliver (Former Cal Sprinter) to help develop the speed of the group at the beginning of their junior season while they received their endurance training from myself.

2012 OSAA State Meet MVP
2012 6A Long Jump State Champion (22-11.75)
2012 6A Triple Jump State Champion (46-0)
2012 6A High Jump 4th Place (6-3)

Coach Notes: Alex transferred over to Lincoln as an already decorated jumper and basketball player. Our jumps coach Billy McKinney now had another stud jumper like Elvis Akpla back in 2007. Coach McKinney took a lighter approach with Alex in the jumps by keeping him fresh by not taking all of his jumps at every meet. It helps when he was winning 90% of his meets on the 1st jump. Alex didn't get any wins at big invitationals but he saved his best performance for last at the 2012 state meet Scoring 24 points and winning the meet MVP.

College: Harvard Girls TF & XC/UC Davis

1 Mile: US #19, School Record (4:49.12)
3200: US #14 (10:19.97)
2nd NCS MOC Girls 1600
CIF State Finals 1600
Girls 4x1600: US #4 (20:19.61)
Girls DMR: US #19 (12:00.07)

Coach Notes: I was lucky enough to become her coach as a senior. Brooke was one of the most focused athletes I've ever been around, I've never seen an athlete who loved to train, compete and flat out just talk about running as much as Brooke. Her demeanor, work ethic and ability had helped turn Monte Vista into a girls distance powerhouse and she was the absolute leader. She made my job very easy to say the least.

Brooke was coming off an injury which hampered her quite a bit during her junior season. With her mother as her distance Coach, Brooke went on an absolute tear during her senior year posting nationally rated marks in the 1600, 3200 and two different distance relays. Brooke finished up her senior season with a 2nd place finish at NCS MOC in the girls 1600 and by also making CIF State finals in the 1600. Brooke feared no one.

College: BYU XC & Track and Field

Senior Season:
800m Season Best: (2:10.00)
1600m Seaon Best: (4:53.01)
2nd Place NCS MOC Girls 800m
CIF State Finals Girls 800m
Girls 4x1600: 20:19.61 (MV) US #4
Girls DMR: 12:00.07 (MV) US #19

Coach Notes: Heidi is the most talented girl runner that I have ever coached. I arrived at Monte Vista HS at the beginning of her senior season in which she had already committed to run Track and Cross Country for BYU. Our distance Coach Mandee Starn did the primary workout design for Heidi loading her up with more mileage than she had trained with in previous seasons and giving her lots of opportunities to run the 1600. Heidi had a spectacular senior season staying completely healthy while contributing on the 4x400, Sprint Medley, DMR and 4x1600 teams. Heidi ran the 1600 & 800 all the way thru our conference meet and ended up getting down to 4:53 in the 1600.

In an attempt to defend her NCS Title in the 800, Heidi and eventual state champion Alyssa Brewer (California) went toe 2 toe in a race that Heidi had the lead until the final 80 meters. No one that season had come that close to defeating Brewer.

College: California-Berkeley Track and Field

1600m: (4:49.99)
3200m: (10:45.57)
NCS MOC Top 3 in Girls 1600m (Junior + Senior Year)
Girls 4x1600: US #4 (20:19.61)
Girls DMR: US #19 (12:00.07)

Coach Notes: Meredith is the most consistent and positive athlete I've ever had the chance to coach. When I arrived at Monte Vista prior to Meredith's junior season I could immediately see her positive attitude and fun that Meredith infused into our program. Training under the wings of stud seniors Brooke Starn & Heidi Fuhriman, Meredith quietly trained and competed her way to the top of the distance girl food chain by finishing 3rd at the 2016 NCS MOC posting a 4:49 in the 1600 and 2nd as a senior in the NCS MOC Girls 1600.

LJ - (22-3.5)
TJ - (44-4)
HJ - (6-3)

2018 Team MVP as Junior
2018 EBAL League Championship High Point Scorer
2018 NCS Tri-Valley Championship HIgh Point Scorer
2018 NCS MOC Qualifier Boys HJ, LJ
2017 NCS MOC Qualifier Boys HJ
2017 EBAL League Championship High Point Scorer

Coach Notes: During my 3 seasons as the Monte Vista Head Coach I had the pleasure of coaching one of the North Coasts Sections most dominant jumpers. Matt competes in the LJ, TJ and HJ at each and every single meet and regularly wins the high point scorer of the meet. My job as his Head Coach was to manage and keep Matt healthy while providing conditioning workouts so that Matt is able to execute in the later rounds.

During his junior season I brought in Olympic Jumper Grace Upshaw to coach Matt to a fantastic junior season in which he qualified for the NCS Meet of Champions in 2 different jumps.

College: Belmont University
400: (49.69)
200: (22.63)
100: (11.20)
7th Boys 400m NCS Meet of Champions
5th Boys 4x400m NCS Meet of Champions

Coach Notes: Elijah is the best boys combo sprinter that I have ever had the pleasure of coaching. Elijah was blessed with natural speed and an incredible work ethic. Each and every rep, every single day, Elijah went 110% which was great for our program. This helped raise the level and competitive nature of every practice. Elijah had a great 4 year career at Monte Vista staying completely healthy while posting Top 10 all time marks in 5 different events.

College: Swarthmore Track and Field
400: (49.75)

Coach Notes: Zain began running track and field for the first time as a junior at Lincoln HS. Zain started his career off at a 53.93 in the 400m but I saw some potential in him because of his turnover rate. During his senior year, I turned Zain's endurance training over to Charlotte Richardson and I handled all of his speed training. Zain eventually went on to place 6th overall in the Boys 400m at the Oregon 6A state meet in just his 2nd season running track!

College: Cal Poly Track and Field + XC
3200 Best: (9:06.60) (School Record)
1600 Best: (4:21.99)
2nd @ 2016 NCS MOC Boys 3200
11th @ CIF State Finals Boys 3200

Coach Notes: Tim Chrisman stood at about 6-6 and was a fun loving teammate, easily one of the more popular athletes in the program. Tim had been trained throughout his career by the legendary Coach Mike Davis and was poised for a huge senior season. I got to Monte Vista during his senior year and watched Tim battled it out against the best distance boys in the state of California ultimately leading him to breaking the Monte Vista HS record at 3200 in the CIF Finals of the boys 3200 in his final race.