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​established 2012

Garcia Places 12th in Pan American Games Marathon

7/27/2019

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Eduardo Garcia, center, running to 12th place finish in Pan American Games Marathon.
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Eduardo Garcia ran 2:19:12 to place 12th in the Pan American Games Marathon in Lima, Peru on Saturday. Garcia represented the US Virgin Islands on a cloud-covered morning with temperatures in the low 60s (F) and high humidity in the coastal city with a population of over 10 million people. 

Garcia ran at the back of the pack through 5K in 16:33 and 10K in 32:55 (just under 2:19:00 pace). The leaders then increased the pace and gapped Eddie by 30 seconds over the next 5K segment as he passed 15K in 49:09. Garcia continued to follow the increasingly faster pace and passed the half-marathon marker at 1:07:22 (2:14:44 pace). Due to that increase in pace from 10K to 21K, Garcia slowed over the second half (1:11:50), but still finished only 22 seconds slower than his qualifying time. 


GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate,   generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance).  The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and  USATF.
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ASICS GTC-ELITE Welcomes NCAA DIII Champion Annie Rodenfels to the Program

7/20/2019

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Annie Rodenfels. photo credit: Centre College
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE is excited to announce the addition of Annie Rodenfels to the post-collegiate, Olympic-development program. Rodenfels recently graduated from Centre College in Kentucky, where she majored in Psychology, with a minor in Gender Studies. She was the 2019 NCAA Division III national champion in both the 3000-meter Steeplechase and the 5,000 meters. She was the defending champion in the former as she previously won the 2018 title in the steeple, with what was then the fifth fastest time in DIII history. 

Annie is a five-time All-American in track and field, earning the additional honors in the women's indoor 5,000 in 2019 with a runner-up finish, as well as another All-America recognition in the 3000m-steeplechase as a sophomore in 2017. She is the most decorated female student-athlete in Centre College history.

In addition to the national honors, Rodenfels is a two-time Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Women's Track Athlete of the Year and owns ten different program records between indoor and outdoor track, including the 800m,1500m, 3000m-steeplechase and 5,000. In the meets leading up to the 2019 NCAA Championships, Rodenfels set the Division III record in the 3000m-steeplechase with a time of 9:58, becoming the first female runner in Division III to complete the race in under ten minutes. 

In cross country, Rodenfels is a two-time NCAA and USTFCCCA All-American, earning the honors in 2017 and 2018. Her third place finish at the 2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships is the highest finish by any Centre runner in the NCAA Finals, male or female. 

A winner of the 2018 SAA Women's Runner of the Year award, Rodenfels helped lead the Centre women's cross country team to conference championships in 2017 and 2018, and in 2018, the team earned its first automatic bid to the NCAA Finals in program history.

"We are excited to have Annie move to beautiful Greenville and join our program," stated Director/Coach Mike Caldwell. "Laura (who will be Annie's primary coach) and I both believe that Annie has an excellent opportunity to continue to develop in the steeplechase as well as at other distances such as the 3,000 and 5,000. She will be a great addition to our program." 


Rodenfels commented, “I am incredibly honored and excited to be making this commitment to Greenville Track Club-ELITE in order to pursue a career in professional running! The opportunity to push my running as far and as fast as it can go is incredible, but I am that much more exited to be pursuing my goals with GTC-ELITE. I wholeheartedly believe that the opportunities here under the powerful force of Mike and Laura will help push me to be my best. I feel very lucky to be moving on from one great program onto another one, and am especially excited to help build a foundation alongside Cristina (McKnight) for another strong woman’s program in Greenville. Most of all, I’m eager to move down and begin my training and hopefully, achieve a lot more than I already have."

Annie will relocate to Greenville following the 2019 USATF National Championships next week in Des Moines, Iowa, where she will be competing among the nation's best in the 3000m-steeplechase. She enters the competition with a seed time among the top 15 entrants. 

​GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate,   generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance).  The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and  USATF.
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Garcia Leads ASICS GTC-ELITE at Historic 50th Edition of Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race

7/4/2019

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Cristina McKnight, Victor Pataky, Joe Niemiec and Eddie Garcia after the 50th Peachtree Road Race 10K.
Eddie Garcia ran to a 21st place finish to lead ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE in the 50th running of Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race on the USA's birthday. After passing the first 5K in 14:48, Garcia's finishing time was 30:34 over the challenging 10-kilometer route on the Georgia capital's famous Peachtree Street. He was the 11th American finisher.

The field of participants was capped at just over 60,000. The race started under "yellow" conditions, which alerted the runners to use caution, due to the 75-degree temperature and high humidity at the 7:00 am start (6:50 am for the elite women). 

Despite with the cautionary conditions, Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto ran to a phenomenal course record of 27:01 to best the previous CR by three seconds and earn the $50,000 bonus on top of the $8,000 winner's prize. Nine of the top ten finishers were African. 

Garcia's teammates, Victor Pataky, Joe Niemiec and Cristina McKnight all placed within the top 30 men and women finishers, respectively. Pataky placed 25th with a time of 31:25 after placing 26th in 2018. Although slowing considerably after the first 5K, Niemiec finished his first Peachtree in 30th position with a time of 32:41. McKnight, who did not compete in college, was running in only her first 10K and placed 29th with a time of 36:08. She passed 5K in 17:32 before slowing somewhat on the second half hills. 

The women's course record was also broken as Brigid Kosgei ran an amazing 30:22 to also earn a $50,000 bonus on top of her first place winnings. The top six women were Africans. 
GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate,   generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance).  The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and  USATF.
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ASICS GTC-ELITE in the ATL for 50th Annual Peachtree Road Race

7/3/2019

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ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE will have four athletes and one of their coaches participate in the historic 50th edition of the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, GA on July 4th. 

Both Eddie Garcia and Victor Pataky will be returning from 25th and 26th place finishes in 2018 and will chase a very elite field of world-class runners. The prescribed pacing for the men's leaders, who will be viving to break the course record of 27:04 and earn the $50,000 bonus, is scheduled to be 4:17 per mile. The women's pace was announced to be a quick 4:55 per mile as they compete for a similar $50K bonus for setting a new course record. 

Joe Niemiec and Cristina McKnight will be running Peachtree for the first time. while coach Mike Caldwell will be running among the "Original 110" finishers who completed the initial running of the race in 1970. Mike finished 3rd in that first Peachtree. The race entries for 2019 were capped at 60,000 participants and is the largest road race in the world. 
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Coach Mike Caldwell (in blue hat) with members of the "Original 110" during their reunion on Tuesday.
GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate,   generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance).  The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and  USATF.
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