TFC-TEXAS 2021

Bobby Stroupe

Bobby Stroupe is the Founder and President of ATHLETE Performance Enhancement Center (APEC). Coach Stroupe has directed human performance systems for over 20 years while expanding his influence as a consultant, speaker, author and educator. His experience includes working with school systems, collegiate teams, professional teams, businesses, and individuals alike. His coaching ranges from youth athletes to some of the top names in multiple professional sports including 1st round picks, Super Bowl and World Series champions. Stroupe and team currently support over 100 active athletes in the NFL and MLB alone. Most importantly, over 25 of these athletes started with APEC in elementary school. Among many accomplishments by his athletes, Bobby has been credited with supporting arguably some of the best in the game of baseball and football including NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes.

As an entrepreneur, Stroupe and team built APEC from a grass field in 2005 to today, a world wide training leader in human performance.

Coach Stroupe belongs to an elite group of physical therapists, athletic trainers, and human performance practitioners as a Fellow of Applied Functional Science. Stroupe has also been named a RSCC*D by the NSCA due to 10+ years of demonstrating high standards and professional practice.

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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.

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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.

Brad Dixon

Brad Dixon is the Head Football Coach, Head Boys Track Coach, Strength & Conditioning Coordinator, and Physical Education teacher at Camp Point Central High School in West Central Illinois.

Coach Dixon has been coaching football for the last 16 years, including the last 8 years as Head Football coach at Camp Point Central. During those 8 years, the Panthers have won 5 conference championships, went to the IHSA playoffs 8 straight years, made a quarterfinal appearance, and two semi-final appearances in the IHSA playoffs. In 2018, Camp Point placed 2nd in the state.

Coach Dixon is currently 89-22 in his ten years at Camp Point Central, a winning percentage of 80.1%. Three years ago, Coach Dixon gave up coaching High School Boys Basketball after 13 seasons to become the Head Boys Track Coach at Camp Point Central.

Over the past two years, Coach Dixon has made speed THE priority in every athlete that he trains, and it has made a major impact on how he now runs his high school football program.

This past summer he also became RPR Level 2 Certified and it has been another game changer for his program.

J.T. Ayers

Coach JT Ayers is a three-time Orange County Track Coach of the Year (2013, 2016, 2019) and has been coaching Track and Field for 14 years. Coach Ayers led his team at Orange Lutheran High School to its first CIF Division 3 Championship in 2013. After that, he took over at his Alma Mater, Trabuco Hills High School, as Head Coach of the boy's team in 2014. Since then, his athletes have broken 35 grade level and 8 school records, 3 All-Time Orange County Records, and the team has been ranked #1 in Orange County 4 different years (2015, 2016, 2018, 2020).

In 2019 the Boys 4x100 team placed 4th at the CA State Finals and ran the 2nd fastest 4x100 mark in Orange County History (the fastest was run by Trabuco the previous year). The Boys 4x400 team also placed 4th at the CA State Finals, running a new school record and 7th fastest 4x400 mark in OC History. This past season, even cut short, the Boys team were crowned 2020 CA State Dual Meet Virtual Champions in a tournament hosted by Milesplit CA.

Coach Ayers received his B.A in History from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and his Teaching Credential and Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University, Irvine. He is currently the Executive Director of CoachAyers.com, has published work in SimpliFaster.com, and teaches full time at Trabuco Hills High School. He has been married to his best friend, Jessica, for 16 years and has 4 very active children.

You can follow him and the team on Twitter @CoachJTAyers

Cal Dietz

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Cal Dietz has been an Olympic Sport Strength and Conditioning coach for numerous sports at the University of Minnesota since 2000. During his tenure, Dietz has trained athletes that have achieved 400+ All-American honors, Teams that have won 33 Big Ten/WCHA championships teams and 10 NCAA Team Champions. He has consulted with Olympic and World Champions in various sports and professional athletes in the NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB, MMA and Professional Boxing.

Cal Dietz is serving as Strength and Conditioning Head Coach for the U.S. Women's National Team after serving in the same role during the 2019 U.S. Women's National Festival in Lake Placid, New York.

John Garrish is serving in his fifth year as the Director of Athletic Development and third as the Head Track and Field Coach at North Broward Prep in Coconut Creek, Florida.

A graduate of Wagner College and the University of North Texas, he’s credentialed as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.

In addition to his role at North Broward, John is proud to serve as a volunteer coach with Delray Beach Sports’ Exhibitors.

Coach Garrish has spoken at state, regional and national events including the NSCA National Conference in 2016, Coaches’ Conference in 2017 and the National High School Strength Coaches’ Association National Conference in 2017 and 2018.

Additionally, he serves as the NHSSCA Regional Board Member for the Southeast.

Elias Kawesa Jr.

Assistant Head Track at McKinney High School.

9 years of Coaching Track.

5 years aa Head Coach. (Timpson HS and West Mesquite HS)

Works with Sprinters and Relays.

Corey Jordan

McKinneyHigh School Associate Head Coach /Defensive Backs Coach/ DB Trainer

From Rowlett, TX, played at Garland High and Bishop Lynch 99-03. College career was at UTEP and Abilene Christian. 4x All conference and 1-time All American.

First coaching job was at Allen High where he coached dbs and won 2 championships.

Coach at West Mesquite as DC/Recruiting Coordinator for 4yrs and helped place over 40 kids in college.

Trained Db’s over 10 yrs and has helped develop several skill players at all levels. (P5,FBS,DII).

Dan Fichter

Dan Fichter owns and operates WannaGetFast Power/Speed Training, a sports performance training business in Rochester, NY and Tampa, FL that offers training to elite athletes.

Fichter's clients have included pro hockey players Chris Thorburn (Winnipeg Jets), Stanley Cup champion Brian Gionta (Buffalo Sabres), Ryan Callahan (Tampa Bay Lightning, US Olympic Team), Shane Prince (Binghamton Senators), Olympic track and field star Victoriya Rybalko from the Ukraine, NY Yankee shortstop Cito Culver, UFC fighter Mike Massenzio, Oakland A’s 2nd baseman Andy Parrino, Washington Nationals Infielder Chris Bostick along with Washington Nationals pitcher Brian Dupra.

As a high school coach Dan’s resume is quite impressive. Head Track and Field Coach Irondequoit High School- lost one dual meet (head to head) and won 6 Section V Championships in 8 years as being a head coach. Multiple coach of the year awards. As Irondequoit’s Head Football Coach he took a winless team in 2012 and rebuilt them to a state semi-finalist and Section V championship in two years of being named the head coach. Dan was named Buffalo Bills/National Guard Coach of the Year in 2014.

Dan speaks every year around the country on how to incorporate neurological based strength and conditioning for quicker and longer lasting results.

JL Holdsworth

JL Holdsworth is a world champion powerlifter, published author and former University of Kentucky strength and conditioning coach. With over 30,000 hours of practical experience and competition best lifts of a 905 lb. squat, 775 lb. bench press, and a 804 lb. deadlift, JL is no doubt one of the strongest and most experienced strength and conditioning coaches in the industry.

JL has been the official speed and performance coach for the Major League Lacrosse, Ohio Machine, for the past 3 seasons. He is a highly sought after speaker and has presented internationally on many topics relating to human performance. He regularly consults with major collegiate, NFL and NHL programs such as The New York Jets, St. Louis Blues, University of Clemson & The Ohio State University.

In 2010 he founded The Spot Athletics and has built that small private training facility into two 20,000sq. ft. locations in the Columbus, OH area. Along with his facilities, JL is the Co-Founder of Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR), an injury prevention and performance system being used by many top sports organizations around the world.

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2-Day Sports Performance Event
TFC - TEXAS
JULY 9-10
McKINNEY STADIUM

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