Garcia Honored at Greenville Track Club May Meeting

Greenville Track Club founder and current co-president Bill Keesling presented Eduardo Garcia a commemorative plaque in honor of his participation in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at the club's May meeting. Eduardo was also highlighted as the meeting's speaker and entertained the attendees with details about his amazing experience leading up to and during his time in Paris. 

He is currently rehabbing from his second hip surgery since undergoing an injury (one procedure on each hip to clean up previous damage to tissues). Eddie has been a member of Greenville Track Club-ELITE, sponsored by the GTC, since 2018. His future plans include regaining his competitive fitness and focus on the LA '28 Games. 

GTC founder and current co-president Bill Keesling, Eduardo Garcia and GTC-ELITE coach Mike Caldwell

Greenville Track Club-ELITE was established in 2012 and is well into its second decade as a post-collegiate, Olympic-development program. The program developed and produced one participant for the 2024 Olympic Games marathon in Paris; four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles; one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in Lima, Peru; three qualifiers/two participants for the 2020 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Atlanta, GA; one qualifier and participant in the 2021 USATF Olympic Track & Field Trials in the 3000m Steeplechase in Eugene, OR; and three qualifiers for the 2024 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Orlando, FL. The program's runners set four South Carolina State road race records in 2020 (5K, 15K and Half Marathon--twice) and three (15K, 10-Mile and 20K) in 2021. GTC-ELITE  produced the South Carolina Men's 2020 Long Distance Runner of the Year and recently had the top two ranked South Carolina road racers for 2024.

​The program is sponsored and supported by the 53-year-old Greenville Track Club, ASICS, Joy Real Estate (Adopt an Athlete partner), generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, the DorsiFlex (stretching device), the MOBO board (balance & mobility) and LEVER Movement (treadmill body weight support). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.​