Chris Korfist

Chris Korfist has been getting of people faster for the last 25 years. Whether the athlete is a middle school or professional athlete, Chris has experience helping all age groups of athletes. His website, Slow Guy Speed Guy, offers video assessment for individuals or teams as well as online workouts.

Chris Korfist is an international speed guru who works championship caliber athletes on a daily basis. 

Consultant for multiple NFL teams including Jaguars, Bengals, Jets, 49ers, and Eagles. 

Consultant for NCAA football programs Texas, Ohio St., and Clemson.

Chris is the Co-Owner of Reflexive Performance which is a process that gets athletes nervous system ready to performance at a peak state through a sequence of manual therapy. Courses are available throughout the year.

He is also the co-owner of Track Football Consortium (along with Tony Holler) which is one of the leading sprint/strength clinics in the nation.

Chris is the off-season trainer of David Montgomery of the Chicago Bears.

TONY HOLLER

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Tony Holler is the head track coach at Plainfield North High School in the Chicago area. Tony Holler has coached track for 40 years, football for 28, and basketball for 15. In June of 2019, Tony retired after his 38th year of teaching (Chemistry). He remains as the head track coach.

Holler’s teams have won three state championships. In 2018, his Plainfield North team swept the sprints in Illinois, winning the 100m, 200m, 4x1, and 4x2, setting new state records in the 100m and 4x1. In 2019, Plainfield North again featured the state champion in both the 100 and 200. 

Tony Holler and Chris Korfist own the Track Football Consortium, providing education for coaches twice a year.

Tony Holler is the originator of “Feed the Cats” and speaks at clinics and seminars from coast to coast. In September of 2019, Holler did a five workshop “Feed the Cats Tour” in England and Ireland, hosted by Jonas Dodoo.

The author of the #1 ranked DVD for Championship Productions in 2019 (all sports), and #1 ranked again for Track & Field in 2020. Holler's newest project is an ambitious Feed the Cats Certification Program. 

Holler is also the author of nearly 300 articles about coaching, high performance, education, and life. 

MIKE KENNEDY

A National Board Certified Physics Teacher at Neuqua Valley, Coach Mike Kennedy has served as Head Coach of the Neuqua Valley Boys Track and Field team for over 15 years. During his tenure, Kennedy has seen the team grow so large that a tryout process had to be instituted. Four times, he saw his team aloft on the trophy stand with a state trophy, including the most recent in 2018 when the team was State Champions. In total, Kennedy’s teams have seen 9 Top 10 team finishes. Coach Kennedy was named as AA Track and Field Coach of the Year in 2005 and Illinois Track and Field Coach of the Year in 2018. During his time with the Neuqua Valley team, Kennedy has coached numerous state qualifiers as well as All-State relays and athletes. In 2005, Kennedy coached Prince Riley in the 400 m to become the first Track and Field State Champion for Neuqua Valley. He has also coached two State Champion 4 x 400 m relays, two State Champion 4 x 800 m relays, a State Champion 4 x 200 m relay and Ty Moss, the 2015 State Champion in the 800m. Kennedy is also an Assistant Track and Field Coach for the Neuqua Valley Boys Cross Country team and is a Co-Founder and Head Coach of the Wildcat Track & Field/Cross Country Club. 

Kennedy is Level 2 Certified in Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) and practices it regularly with his teams, which have seen a dramatic decrease in injuries and a dramatic increase in performance. 

Kennedy competed in Track and Field for Marist High School and for the University of Chicago mainly as a 400m hurdler. He also coached Track and Field and Cross Country at Marist High School from 1997-2000.

Brian Kula

Coach Kula has worked with thousands of athletes in his career as a track & field, sport performance and football coach. He has coached multiple National Champions, All-Americans, Gatorade Players of the Year and State Champions in a variety of sports.  Kula has 22 years experience in the athletic development of athletes at all levels from youth to professional. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from UNC in 1996 and began his professional career in the same year.

In addition to many years as a head track coach and architect of numerous championships and records, Kula also coached football and operated strength and conditioning programs.  He directed all facets of strength, speed, agility, conditioning, testing, recovery and nutrition. Kula has been a presenter at coaching clinics for speed development and training programs in a number of states and consulted for various programs around Colorado.  In 2002, he founded Advanced Training System, a sports performance business.  ATS served youth, college and professional athletes in a multi-sport training program. The program was highly successful in the development of athletic performance for many years.

Coach Kula has worked with Division 1 athletes from over 25 universities across the country including notable local athletes Christian McCaffrey - #8 Overall NFL Draft Pick ’17 (Carolina Panthers), Anna Hall - US Record Heptathlon/Pentathlon ‘19 (Georgia) , MaryBeth Sant – US #1 100m ‘13 (Oregon/CSU), JT Scheuerman - US #2 400m ‘06 (Baylor) and many other professional athletes.

Most recently while at Valor Christian high school, Kula served as an athletic director, track and football coach. His passion and success for the development of athletes to maximize their potential has been recognized at the state, regional and national level.

As an athlete, Kula was an accomplished Decathlete at the University of Northern Colorado earning All-American honors and played wide receiver for the football team. He was inducted into the UNC Hall of Fame, class of 2014.

Derek Evely

Derek Evely has been involved in the sport of athletics most of his life as both an athlete and a coach. He has been coaching for the past 30 years, 20 of them professionally. He has been a member of numerous Canadian and British national teams including the Olympic Games, IAAF World Championships, Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games and European Championships. He was the development coach for Gary Reed (Osaka World Championships 800m Silver Medalist) and Dylan Armstrong (Beijing Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist). He has also coached successful international hammer throwers Mark Dry, Sophie Hitchon and Sultana Frizell.

In 2006 he began work as the Sport Science Manager at the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre. In his 4 years there he was instrumental in the development of one of the best coaching education resources in the world, the CACC website. In 2009 Evely was appointed National Performance Center Director, Loughborough for UK Athletics leading into the 2012 Olympic Games, where he was a staff coach for Britain in the throws.

Currently Evely is the owner / operator of EveltrakSport.com, a website offering various courses on training, theory and methodology and other aspects related to sport development. He is considered an authority on the Bondarchuk Method of developing performance athletes and still works closely with Dr. Anatoliy Bondarchuk to educate coaches and sport trainers on how to improve their athletes. He also consults globally for various federations on all aspects of coach and athlete development, specializing in high performance training systems and youth development programming.

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Ken Jakalski

Ken Jakalski has been coaching cross country and track and field at the high school level for 42 years. He is a president of the Illinois Coaches Association, former CEO of Faster than Gravity Speed Enhancement, and former coaching education chairmen for Illinois United State Track and Field. He’s a member of the Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame, a three time recipient of the ITCCCA Coach of the Year award, and a Recipient of the 1989 Franklin Life Golden Clipboards Award for 100+ team victories in both cross country and track. Ken has been Host/Director/Keynote Speaker to five specialty clinics offered through the Illinois Coaches Association, and author of numerous articles related to conditioning, speed enhancement, and endurance training. He’s presented seminars on speed training to coaches associations across the country, and has served as a member of the IHSA Track and Field Advisory Committee as well as Meet Manager for the 1998 USATF National Cross Country Championships. He was a 2007 National High School Coaches Association Finalist for Coach of the Year, and this June he will be inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Three years ago he wrote The Book of Zoom, a study of science based insights on the mechanics of speed and sprint training protocols. Dr. Peter Weyand of Southern Methodist University, the world’s leading authority on the science of human locomotion endorsed the book. “Ken’s overt fascination with speed and his unwavering commitment to kids and coaching has led him to go “keyboard to keyboard” with everyone from biomechanics scholars to Olympic coaches in pursuit of answers. He is an example shining example of the difference that the passion, instincts, professionalism, and tireless efforts of a single person can make."

Dexalytics

Our system takes body composition beyond the traditional total metrics by:

• Providing sport and position-specific information that addresses both the type and distribution of mass
• Normalizing bone density to compare within similar athlete body types rather than traditional normative values
• Displaying an athlete’s information alongside others at the same position or compared to others on the roster chosen by you