Rick Hagedorn:  Founder and 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, a basketball training facility in conjunction with GameShape, Open Gym, a basketball training facility in Anaheim, Ca., Plex Training Facility, a football training facility in Sugarland, Texas, Texas Sports Medical Center, a baseball training center in Tomball, Texas, and TPC Performance Center, a golf training 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.

In 2011, Speedburners went international, traveling to the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, bringing our speed program to their respective cities. We also worked with NFL China in introducing the sport of American Football to China.

 

 

Speedburner Associates:

Speedburners has aligned itself with some of the very best coaches and trainers in the country.  In bringing our speed program to the various sports, Speedburners has chosen who to associate with.

We feel extremely fortunate to have been able to train side by side with people who are recognized as the best in their respective fields.  The following trainers/coaches are at the elite level, meaning athletes seek them out.  Off the field, they are even better people, and we are pleased to count them not only as colleagues, but friends as well.

 

Robbie Davis and Marko Yjovouri of Gameshape, Inc. – Los Angeles, California

 

Gameshape is the premier basketball  training company specializing in the world of college and professional athletes. Gameshape provides a multi dimensional approach to training and injury prevention. While their training philosophy is centered on sport specific postural control and core stabilization, the integrated performance training approach is designed to address the needs of each athlete on a case by case basis.

 

Three years ago, Speedburners joined forces with Gameshape to add the element of speed to their already impressive training resume. Both Robbie and Marko have years of experience working with NBA athletes. You can find more information on:  www.gameshapeinc.com

 

Dennis Fay and Joe Loria of Texas Sports Medicine Center – Tomball, Texas

 

Located in Tomball, Texas, Texas Sports Medicine Center offers a structured strength and conditioning program that provides athletes with performance enhancement training. We help individuals of all ages achieve their maximum physical performance by focusing on speed, strength, power, flexibility, and balance.

Professional, collegiate, and high school athletes all come to enhance their physical and mental abilities in their off seasons.  Two years ago, Speedburners joined forces with TSMC to bring speed into the baseball world.  Working with professional such as Dennis and Joe is both fun and educating.  You can get more information on their program at www.tsmc.com

 

Kevin Kirk of The Golf Performance Center – The Woodlands, Texas

The Golf Performance Center, also known as TPC is located in The Woodlands, Texas.  Kevin Kirk is a master professional golf instructor with many awards and accolades to speak of.  Kevin is a brilliant “think outside the box” individual who brought Speedburners into the world of golf in 2009. 

At TPC the instructors not only work on the game of golf but also the physical and mental aspects of cross training as Kevin strives to bring fitness and knowledge into golf.  We are pleased to be the only speed training company in the golf world and recognize Kevin as the trail blazer.  You can get more information on Kevin and his program at: www.thewoodlandscc.com

 

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 .

Helping out at the annual Gridiron Dreams Camp are Alex Guerrero, Daryn Colledge, Jerard Rabb, Quinton Jones, Tommy Gallarda, Derrell Acrey, Legedu Naanee, and Lawrence Beatty.

Working with us in China was John Walker, USC National Champion and former Houston Texan.