Rick Hagedorn:  Lead Instructor

Rick Hagedorn is a track and field sprint coach entering his fifteenth season and is currently the sprint coach at Brea Olinda High School in Brea, Ca.  He previously coached both football and track at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton before moving on to both sports at Brea Olinda High School.

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 such as football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball, lacrosse, swimming, water polo, wrestling, mixed martial arts, volleyball, track and field, cross country, rugby, ice hockey, dance, and fitness all employ speed.

Speedburners has branched out into the Los Angeles area where we are training at HAX: The Hangar Athletic Exchange in Hawthorne, Ca. HAX is the premier training facility on the West Coast and Speedburners now is their official speed program.

Coach Hagedorn has written articles on speed development for Student Sports Magazine, SPARQ Magazine,and Athletes.com, the world's largest training sit. He has been featured in Sports Illustrated for Kids Magazine, Local Hype Magazine, Nike SPARQ Training, CBS Sports Stars of Tomorrow, ESPN Radio, NBC Sports, NBC Sports Online, NBC Strikeforce Fights, America Online MMA, the Orange County Register, and various newspapers around the country. He also works as a technical advisor for Nike on video, commercial and photo shoots.

 

 

Kathy Sepulveda:  Youth Speed Coordinator

Recently completing her athletic career as a collegiate women's soccer athlete at the University of California at San Diego, Kathy Sepulveda represents Speedburners not only as an athlete, but an assistant speed coach as well.

Kathy's specialty is working with the younger athletes in developing the fundamentals necessary in speed development.

She has been with Speedburners since it's inception and assists Coach Hagedorn as a sponsored Nike speed coach and SPARQ speed trainer in the Summer of Speed Program and Nike SPARQ Challenge during the summer. She is also a traveling speed instructor as Speedburners makes it way across the country.

Coach Hagedorn counts Kathy as one of the fastest women he has ever coached, and athletically believes she possesses heptathlete type of ability. He states that her work ethic is second to none, and hopes that quality can be passed on to the younger athletes that become a part of the Speedburner family. 

At Brea Olinda High School, Kathy graduated as the most decorated female athlete in school history, earning 12 varsity letters total in cross-country, soccer, and track and field, becoming the only person in school history to do so.  She was the CIF Southern Section Academic Athlete of the Year in 2003, the Brea Olinda 2003 Female Athlete of the Year, All CIF in Soccer, Century League MVP and a CIF Finalist in Track all four years in high school.  She owns a part of 4 school records in track and is on the All Time Top Ten list in the 200, 400 and 800 meter events. At UC San Diego, Kathy represents Speedburners as the fastest woman on their soccer team, and in this, her junior year, led her team in scoring.  She was named to the 2006 CCAA All Conference Team, the 2006 NCAA All Far West Regional First Team and the 2006 National Soccer Coaches Association of America All Far West Region First Team. She is a double major, in anthropology with an emphasis on biology and kinesiology, and in communication. Kathy coordinates the youth speed program in the summertime, and when her schedule allows, travels with Speedburners as a speed instructor.

 

 

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 Green Bay Packers, 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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.