trainers

        Gayle Hatch's contributions to Olympic-style weightlifting and strength training are quit considerable.
     He has been active as a weightlifting coach and strength coach for more than thirty years. His club,
   the Gayle Hatch Weightlifting team has won more than forty Junior, Senior, and Masters national
championships. Coach Hatch has also had three athletes make the United States Olympic and also
       had numerous athletes selected to other U.S. international teams. Some of the outstandinglifters that
           have come out of the Gayle Hatch program include Olympians Bret Brain and Tommy Calandro,
Junior American record holdrs Blair Lobrano, Buster Bourgeois, and Brandon Baker, as well
       Masters Champions Walt Imahara and Chuck Meole. He has also trained numerous athletes that have
                    gone on to get drafted in the NFL, MLB, and NBA. His training facility is located in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.

Chip Smith
          He is the Founder and President of Competitive Sports. Chip is recognized as one of the foremost
        speed and strength experts in the United States. Chip holds a B.S. in exercise science. He did his
            post graduate work for speed and strength at the world-renowned Soviet Sports Institute. In 1990,
       he was named Head Coach for the United States Powerlifting Team, which competed against the
Soviet and Bulgarian teams. He has spent three years as the speed coach with Phil Niekro's
Silver Bullets. Chip has trained over 200 current NFL players and does combine peparation
for scores of players slected each year in the NFL draft. Chip has also co-directed Duke
University's All Sport Speed and Strength Camp. He is a long time member of the American
College of Sports Medicine, National Strength and Conditioning Association, NFL Alumni
Association, and trainer to many current NFL, NBA, and MLB stars. Chip's training quarters
are located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tom Shaw
   Tom Shaw is recognized as one of the best in his field of Performance Enhancement. After spending
nine years as the Assistant track Coach and Speed as well as Conditioning Coach for many different
sports at Florida State University, Coach Shaw moved to New Orleans to open his own company,
SPEED, Inc. Tom is a graduate of Central Michigan University, where he received his BS in
Education and a Mastersin Exercise Physiology at Colorado and is near completion of his Phd.
Tom had used hisexpertise in Athlete Performance Enhancement to work with 34 first-round draft
picks over the last four years. In 1998 alone, he had 42 athletes drafted in the top three rounds.
Shaw currently is the speed and conditioning coach with the New Orleans Saints. Some of the many
professional athletes that have had success in his program are Aeneas Williams, Deion Sanders, Peyton
Manning, Derrick Brooks, and NBA players Charlie Ward and Billy Owens. Tom facility is on the
outskirts of New Orleans in Kenner, Louisiana.

Loren Seagrave
Coach Seagrave is regarded as one of the most renowned speed and sports performance coaches in the
world. His specialties include human performance optimization, health and wellness, greater quality and
enjoyment of life through lifestyle and eating behavior modification. Coach Seagrave's holistic and
multi-disciplinary approach to performance optimization has earned him acclaim for ahtletes and coaches
throughout the sports world of sports. He is considered one of the leading exponenets of applied sports
science into today's high performance athletes. Coach Seagrave has worked with over fifty Olympic
and World Championships medialists, national and World record holders, and Collegiate All-Americans.
His coaching experience with other sports includes football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and ice hockey.
Since 1998, he has worked as a speed and conditioning coach with the Atlanta Falcons, and consults
regularly with the Detroit Lions and other NFL teams. He is also the co-author of the book Speed
Dynamics. This book that empowers the coach and the athlete and gives them knowledge and tools to
be self-sufficient in their quest for excellence. Seagrave's training facility is based in Fargo, North
Dokota.

Jay Schroeder