The Knoxville Track Club Invites You to a Free Field Events Clinic
Three coaches from the nationally ranked Lady Vols track and field team have graciously offered to share their knowledge of their specialty events with the Knoxville area’s coaches and athletes. Whether you’re an beginning athlete or an experienced coach, this is an outstanding opportunity to expand your knowledge of jumping and throwing events.
When: 2:00 – 5:00 PM, Sunday March 4, 2007
Where: Stokely Athletic Center (1720 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN)
What to Bring: The coaches will run you through some drills, so bring your throwing and/or jumping shoes.
Please RSVP by e-mail to mwortley@ktc.org with an estimated number of people attending.
For more information: Call or E-mail Mike Wortley at 865-386-7283 or mwortley@ktc.org.
Instructors
John Frazier (Shot Put and Discus) - John Frazier is in his first season as the throws coach for the Lady Volunteers. He joined the Tennessee staff in August 2006 after serving six years as an assistant men's and women's track & field coach at the University of Arizona, where he produced 11 All-Americans and two U.S. Junior champions entering the 2005 season. During the 2005 campaign he was recognized as the USTCA National and West Region Assistant Coach of the Year for Throws. He succeeded in adding to those numbers in 2006, when he had seven athletes qualify for the NCAA Championships. His pupils collectively accumulated five All-America certificates in the discus and shot put in his final year at UA.
Frazier's coaching career dates back to 1988, when he joined the staff at UC Irvine. He also spent some of his formative professional years at Humboldt (Calif.) State, Cal State Northridge and Cal State Los Angeles before making the transition to the Pac-10 and SEC level.
During his 18 years in the track & field coaching community, Frazier's athletes have attained 32 All-America awards, including 13 at the NCAA Division II level. Additionally, he coached four NCAA Division II national champions and has tutored several athletes in the professional ranks.
Post-collegiates who have trained with Frazier include Dawn Dumble (59-2 in the shot and 201-6 in the discus); Shaun Pickering, a 1996 British Olympian who owns the No. 3 shot put mark in his country's history; Matt Pentecost, the 1995 U.S Junior National shot put champion; and Steve Albert, who finished seventh in the shot put at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials.
As a collegiate performer from 1982-86, Frazier was a three-time All-American at UCLA in the shot put and also competed in the hammer throw.
Charlie Simpkins (High Jump, Long Jump, and Triple Jump) - A two-time Olympian and silver medalist in 1992, he will lend his knowledge and savvy to UT's jumps corps for the sixth consecutive season.
Simpkins' insights have been helpful in developing a blossoming jumps group, which has included American collegiate indoor record-holder Tianna Madison, who won the IAAF World Outdoor Championship, NCAA and SEC Indoor and Outdoor titles and an NCAA Mideast Region outdoor crown, all in 2005, before she turned pro after her sophomore season. During her second campaign in Knoxville, Madison became only the second American woman (Jackie Joyner Kersee is the other) to strike long jump gold at Worlds and the third (JJK and Marion Jones did so) to medal in that event.
Simpkins enjoyed a stellar post-collegiate career from 1985-95, participating in every national and international competition imaginable. In five of those seasons, he finished the year ranked among the top five in the world in the triple jump. The pinnacle, of course, was his jump of 57-9 that enabled him to earn runner-up status at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
With a career best of 58-7 1/4, Simpkins has been ranked among the 10 all-time best triple jumpers in the world, according to Track & Field News. That fact is amazing, considering he didn't go out for track until he was a junior in high school. What's more, he accepted a basketball scholarship to tiny Baptist College (now Charleston Southern) before later turning his focus to track & field. That move proved to be a wise one, as he would earn All-America honors three times en route to becoming a 58-7 1/4 triple jumper, a 25-foot long jumper and a 7-2 high jumper.
In addition to his duties with UT, the ACE-certified Simpkins manages Zwick Fitness Center, a corporate facility where he serves as a personal trainer and specializes in biomechanics for athletes. He also serves as field events coach for the Knoxville Track Club, where he has been involved for seven years.
David Job (Pole Vault) - Back for his fifth season in charge of the Lady Vol pole vaulters is former University of Tennessee record-holder David Job. A native of Oak Ridge, Tenn., Job previously spent 12 years coaching high school vaulters throughout the Knoxville metropolitan area before lending his expertise to the Big Orange program in 2003.
The past four seasons have seen him develop school-record-setting athletes as well as SEC scorers and NCAA qualifiers. In 2004, sophomore Jessica Reust took that a step further, blossoming into the school's top vaulter outdoors, winning the SEC Outdoor title and advancing to the NCAA Championship meet in June.
During his dozen years of coaching prior to UT, his prep pupils won titles or placed at the state championship meet in each of those seasons. In 2002, one of the student-athletes he directed, Andy Lane Jr., won the Young Men division at the AAU Junior Olympics. Other Job protégés have set women's records at numerous meets, including the Knoxville News Sentinel Relays and the Volunteer Track Classic.
Job is in his second stint as a coach at UT, having worked with the men's program as assistant vault coach from 1970-72. He did so after a standout career at Tennessee, in which he earned three letters and claimed the school pole vault record in 1965.
In his full-time occupation, Job is president of The Learning Network, Inc., an e-learning company focused on corporate training.
Three coaches from the nationally ranked Lady Vols track and field team have graciously offered to share their knowledge of their specialty events with the Knoxville area’s coaches and athletes. Whether you’re an beginning athlete or an experienced coach, this is an outstanding opportunity to expand your knowledge of jumping and throwing events.
When: 2:00 – 5:00 PM, Sunday March 4, 2007
Where: Stokely Athletic Center (1720 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN)
What to Bring: The coaches will run you through some drills, so bring your throwing and/or jumping shoes.
Please RSVP by e-mail to mwortley@ktc.org with an estimated number of people attending.
For more information: Call or E-mail Mike Wortley at 865-386-7283 or mwortley@ktc.org.
Instructors
John Frazier (Shot Put and Discus) - John Frazier is in his first season as the throws coach for the Lady Volunteers. He joined the Tennessee staff in August 2006 after serving six years as an assistant men's and women's track & field coach at the University of Arizona, where he produced 11 All-Americans and two U.S. Junior champions entering the 2005 season. During the 2005 campaign he was recognized as the USTCA National and West Region Assistant Coach of the Year for Throws. He succeeded in adding to those numbers in 2006, when he had seven athletes qualify for the NCAA Championships. His pupils collectively accumulated five All-America certificates in the discus and shot put in his final year at UA.
Frazier's coaching career dates back to 1988, when he joined the staff at UC Irvine. He also spent some of his formative professional years at Humboldt (Calif.) State, Cal State Northridge and Cal State Los Angeles before making the transition to the Pac-10 and SEC level.
During his 18 years in the track & field coaching community, Frazier's athletes have attained 32 All-America awards, including 13 at the NCAA Division II level. Additionally, he coached four NCAA Division II national champions and has tutored several athletes in the professional ranks.
Post-collegiates who have trained with Frazier include Dawn Dumble (59-2 in the shot and 201-6 in the discus); Shaun Pickering, a 1996 British Olympian who owns the No. 3 shot put mark in his country's history; Matt Pentecost, the 1995 U.S Junior National shot put champion; and Steve Albert, who finished seventh in the shot put at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials.
As a collegiate performer from 1982-86, Frazier was a three-time All-American at UCLA in the shot put and also competed in the hammer throw.
Charlie Simpkins (High Jump, Long Jump, and Triple Jump) - A two-time Olympian and silver medalist in 1992, he will lend his knowledge and savvy to UT's jumps corps for the sixth consecutive season.
Simpkins' insights have been helpful in developing a blossoming jumps group, which has included American collegiate indoor record-holder Tianna Madison, who won the IAAF World Outdoor Championship, NCAA and SEC Indoor and Outdoor titles and an NCAA Mideast Region outdoor crown, all in 2005, before she turned pro after her sophomore season. During her second campaign in Knoxville, Madison became only the second American woman (Jackie Joyner Kersee is the other) to strike long jump gold at Worlds and the third (JJK and Marion Jones did so) to medal in that event.
Simpkins enjoyed a stellar post-collegiate career from 1985-95, participating in every national and international competition imaginable. In five of those seasons, he finished the year ranked among the top five in the world in the triple jump. The pinnacle, of course, was his jump of 57-9 that enabled him to earn runner-up status at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
With a career best of 58-7 1/4, Simpkins has been ranked among the 10 all-time best triple jumpers in the world, according to Track & Field News. That fact is amazing, considering he didn't go out for track until he was a junior in high school. What's more, he accepted a basketball scholarship to tiny Baptist College (now Charleston Southern) before later turning his focus to track & field. That move proved to be a wise one, as he would earn All-America honors three times en route to becoming a 58-7 1/4 triple jumper, a 25-foot long jumper and a 7-2 high jumper.
In addition to his duties with UT, the ACE-certified Simpkins manages Zwick Fitness Center, a corporate facility where he serves as a personal trainer and specializes in biomechanics for athletes. He also serves as field events coach for the Knoxville Track Club, where he has been involved for seven years.
David Job (Pole Vault) - Back for his fifth season in charge of the Lady Vol pole vaulters is former University of Tennessee record-holder David Job. A native of Oak Ridge, Tenn., Job previously spent 12 years coaching high school vaulters throughout the Knoxville metropolitan area before lending his expertise to the Big Orange program in 2003.
The past four seasons have seen him develop school-record-setting athletes as well as SEC scorers and NCAA qualifiers. In 2004, sophomore Jessica Reust took that a step further, blossoming into the school's top vaulter outdoors, winning the SEC Outdoor title and advancing to the NCAA Championship meet in June.
During his dozen years of coaching prior to UT, his prep pupils won titles or placed at the state championship meet in each of those seasons. In 2002, one of the student-athletes he directed, Andy Lane Jr., won the Young Men division at the AAU Junior Olympics. Other Job protégés have set women's records at numerous meets, including the Knoxville News Sentinel Relays and the Volunteer Track Classic.
Job is in his second stint as a coach at UT, having worked with the men's program as assistant vault coach from 1970-72. He did so after a standout career at Tennessee, in which he earned three letters and claimed the school pole vault record in 1965.
In his full-time occupation, Job is president of The Learning Network, Inc., an e-learning company focused on corporate training.