Rick Hagedorn:  Lead Instructor

 

Rick Hagedorn is a professional speed and sports performance coach and a former high school football and track and field sprint coach from Orange County, California, where he coached at Sonora High School in La Habra, Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton and Brea Olinda High School in Brea.  

As a football coach, Coach Hagedorn is the proud owner of three CIF Championship rings and states that all three teams had two things in common: great players and great speed.

As a speed coach, he has privately trained many individual athletes and teams for sports requiring speed development. He not only trains high school athletes in getting ready for the Nike Combines, but also trains college football athletes in preparation for the NFL Draft and the various team Pro Days. He counts CIF Champions in football, basketball and baseball, a State Champion in track and field, and a football five time State Champion as programs that have adopted the Speedburner approach to training.  As a Nike sponsored speed coach and a certified SPARQ national trainer in conjunction with Student Sports Magazine promoting Nike's "You're Faster Than You Think" speed initiative, the Nike Speed Showdown brought Speedburners to life, and convinced him to broaden his athlete base to accommodate the incredible demand for speed training. For that reason, Speedburners was founded in the summer of 2004. 

Since then, the Speedburner system has spread across the country as he has visited many cities conducting speed camps and clinics. Coach Hagedorn says the most rewarding aspects about Speedburners is how well they are received in all of the cities, how much fun the athletes have while they're training, and seeing the difference it makes in their athletic performances in their respective sports.

The belief that there is not a sport that isn't speed based is reflected in the athletes and sports represented in the Speedburner system. Sports and athletes in football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball, lacrosse, swimming, golf, water polo, wrestling, mixed martial arts, volleyball, track and field, cross country, rugby, ice hockey, ice skating, dance, bobsled racing, and fitness, all employ speed.

Speedburners has branched out into the Los Angeles and Houston areas where we are training at HAX: The Hangar Athletic Exchange in conjunction with GameShape, Plex Training Facility in Sugarland, Texas, and TPC Country Club, a golf facility in The Woodlands, Texas. Speedburners is the official speed program at all facilities.

Speedburners has both male and female athletes at the junior high, high school, and college levels, and professional athletes in NFL football, NBA basketball, MLB baseball, Professional Soccer, Mixed Martial Arts, Tennis, Professional Golf, and USA Olympians in Men's and Women's Tae Kwon Do, (Steven, Mark, and Diana Lopez), Women's Soccer (Natasha Kai), and Norway Women's Ice Skating (Louisa Ampomah) as well as USA Rugby (Leonard Peters, and USA Womens Basketball (Jeanette Pohlen).

Rick Hagedorn has written articles on speed development for Student Sports Magazine, Volleyball Magazine, SPARQ Magazine,and Athletes.com, the world's largest training site. He has been featured in Sports Illustrated for Kids Magazine, Local Hype Magazine, Nike SPARQ Training, CBS Sports Stars of Tomorrow, 1560 The Game Radio Show in Houston, ESPN Radio, NBC Sports, NBC Sports Online, NBC Strikeforce Fights, America Online MMA, the Orange County Register, ABC Houston, and various newspapers around the country. He also works as a technical advisor for Nike on video, commercial and photo shoots and worked with LaDainian Tomlinson for action shots for ESPN the Magazine at the University of San Diego.

 

 

Speed Instructors:

 

Tim Manoa: Tim is a former NFL running back with the Cleveland Browns and Indianapolis Colts, and the owner of Tim Manoa's Sports Performance Football and Speed Clinics in Cleveland, Ohio.

 

Rich Miano:  Rich is a former NFL safety with the New York Jets and Phliadelphia Eagles, and is also a director with Hawaii Speed and Quickness in Honolulu.  He currently coaches the secondary and coordinates the pass defense at the University of Hawaii and has recently added the title of assistant head coach to his resume.

 

Keith Miller:  Keith is a former NFL linebacker with the Seattle Seahawks and St. Louis Rams, previously worked with Student Sports Magazine, SPARQ, and Nike as an event organizer, and now runs Pure Speed Pro, a private speed training business based in San Diego, California.  Keith has recently relocated, and now resides in Wailua, Hawaii.

 

Eric Zeker:  Zeke works as our administrative assistant and wears many hats for Speedburners.  He organizes our registration process and acts as our athletic trainer on camp days.  He also works at I. Initial, which creates and produces all of the Speedburner apparel.  Zeke has worked as an equipment manager and athletic trainer for Sunny Hills and Brea Olinda High schools, Fullerton Community College, and the professional football Anaheim Piranhas and New Orleans Saints organizations.

 

 

Athlete Guest instructors:

Speedburner athletes who haved worked as demonstrators or spoken at our camps and clinics include: Football players DT Alex Guerrero of the Minnesota Vikings, FB Erik Arevalo of the Arizona Rattlers, WR Evan Moore of the Cleveland Browns, TE Tommy Gallarda from Boise State University, SS David Fullerton from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, OLB Kory Johnson from Saddleback College, baseball player Tony Gonzales of the San Diego Padres, pole vaulter Tori Pena from the UCLA Bruins and sprinter Adriana Bracamonte from Orange Lutheran High School.

Participating in magazine photo shoots are athletes, Tori Pena, Tommy Gallarda, Kathy Sepulveda, Garrett Watkins, Amanda Kronquist and Shane Henry for Local Hype Magazine.  In the Sports Illustrated shoot were Cory Westbrook, Matti Sandoval, Dasean Anderson, and Noah Barrick from Long Beach Poly High School. And in the Volleyball Magazine shoot, volleyball players Molly Yoder from San Clemente High and Spencer Rowe from Mission Viejo High School were present .