ASICS GTC-ELITE'S Laura Caldwell to Speak at Coaches Clinic

Coach Laura Caldwell

ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE coach Laura Caldwell will be one of the panelists at the 
Nike NW Track and Field Clinic at the Tiger Woods Center on Nike's World Campus in Beaverton, OR, January 10-11. She is representing The Women's Running Coaching Collective  (http://www.womensrunningcoaches.org), whose mission is to support, unite, inform, inspire, encourage, and empower women coaches at all levels of our sport. The collective consists of: Melissa Hill, Caldwell, Nikki Rafie, Helene Hutchinson, Kathy Mills Parker, Amy Yoder Begley, Robyn McGillis and Charlotte Lettis Richardson.

The clinic is on Saturday, January 11, at 1 p.m. with focus on coaching the young female runner. Panelists will discuss the coaching, training, injury prevention, nutrition, and psychology of the young female runner. 

Panelists include:
Laura Caldwell had a very successful coaching career at Lake Oswego HS in XC and Track and Field. Later she coached collegiately at Furman University (SC), and is currently coaching professional athletes at the Greenville Track Club-ELITE program, in South Carolina.

PT Shawn Dailey of Therapeutics Associates in Lake Oswego and Nike has worked extensively with high school, college, and professional athletes. 

Nutritionist Michelle Tegankamp, former All American distance runner at Michigan State University, works with the Portland Trail Blazers and the University of Portland, as well as high school, college and professional athletes.  

Coach Marie Davis Markham, former Oregon HS State Champion in Track and XC, an All American at the  University of Oregon, and current coach of the female distance runners at her alma mater, Lincoln HS in Portland, Oregon. 

For more information on the clinic, go to https://www.trackclinic.net​.