Greenville Track Club-ELITE Welcomes Ryan Drew to the Training Group

Greenville Track Club-ELITE is excited to announce that Ryan Drew will be relocating to Greenville to join the post-collegiate, Olympic-development program. Ryan graduated in 2022 from Liberty University in Virginia, where he was also a graduate assistant in 2022-23. 

Ryan has personal bests of 3:41.26 for 1500 meters, 4:01.27 (Indoor Mile), 7:52.81 (Indoor 3,000m) and 13:40.82 (5,000m). During his collegiate career he earned ten All Conference (ASUN) honors, including multiple Indoor Mile titles and podium placings. 

"We are very excited to have Ryan join our program, GTC-ELITE Director/Coach Mike Caldwell explained. "He will be a good addition to our current group of athletes and should have an excellent training partner in new addition Davonte Jett-Reynolds as they target the 1500, mile, 3000m and 5000m. We expect them to lower our current program records in the near future." Those two athletes join GTC-ELITE veterans Eddie Garcia and Jason Weitzel and newer additions Karl Thiessen and Brent Leber. 

“I am blessed and excited to join the Greenville Track Club-ELITE group in Greenville, SC to continue my running career at the pro level," stated Ryan from his home in Virginia Beach, VA. "I’d like to thank Coach Mike and the team sponsors for this opportunity to run professionally and chase some fast times. I am looking forward to moving to the great city of Greenville and getting ready to work with the team.” 

Greenville Track Club-ELITE was established in 2012 and is in its second decade as a post-collegiate, Olympic development program. The program produced 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 and one qualifier and participant in the 2021 USATF Olympic Track & Field Trials in the 3000m Steeplechase. 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 also produced the South Carolina Men's 2020 Long Distance Runner of the Year. 

​The program is sponsored and supported by the 51-year-old Greenville Track Club, ASICS, Joy Real Estate (Adopt an Athlete partner), generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, UCAN energy products, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, the DorsiFlex (stretching device), the MOBO board (balance & mobility), On Pace Wellness (nutrition coaching) 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.​