We're Ba-aaaack!

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Coach Simpson and a handful of last year's campers striking a pose with a greatful ice cream man.

the return.

The Northwest Ohio Distance Running Camp is back! Only...it's not the Northwest Ohio Distance Running Camp anymore. This July, last year's trio of rookie camp directors will not only be one year wiser, they'll be expanding things from Defiance, Ohio to at least two different locations - Mount Union College (Alliance, OH) and Centre College (Danville, KY).
Though it will be tough to outdue the cast of speakers* we had last summer, we'll dare to improve there as well.

Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks and months!

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*last summer's sensational cast of speakers included:

Dara Ford - Head Men's & Women's Cross Country Coach, John Carroll University. Mount Union College indoor 3k, 5k and 3k steeplechase school record-holder.

John Hartpence - Head Men's & Women's Cross Country and Track & Field Coach, Defiance College. Ran under world-renowned coach Jack Daniels - the man Runner's World has named the greatest distance coach of all-time - as an undergraduate at SUNY Cortland (NY). Has coached roughly 70 individual conference championships and eight NCAA All-Americans throughout his coaching career and was voted the USTFCCAA Mid-East Women’s Indoor Coach of the Year in both 2002 and 2003.

Jason Maus - Head Men's & Women's Cross Country and Track & Field Coach, Ohio Northern University. Maus has lead the Polar Bears to numerous NCAA Championship appearances, Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) titles and individual national titles.

Brendon Moody - Head Women's Cross Country Coach, Van Wert (OH) High School. Moody lead the Lady Cougars to a 12th place finish at the DII Ohio State Cross Country Championships last fall (2009). Senior Lauren Taylor finished 6th individually. Moody remains to this day Heidelberg University's school record-holder in the 3k steeple.

Matt Folk - Olympic Trials Qualifier Marathoner and certified shoe expert (owns the Toledo Second Sole, one of our sponsors).

Jimmy O'Brien - 3-time National Champion, 10-time All-American, proud owner of a US Olympic Trials B-Standard 800m PR (1:48.45). Currently runs for the Indiana Invaders in his first year as a post-collegiate runner.

Carime Reinhart - won multiple Mid-American Conference (MAC) titles while running for Ohio University.

Justin Dickman - currently a graduate student at Ohio Northern University (Law). Graduated from Youngstown State University in three years. This fall Justin was a national-caliber cross country runner and 2009 OAC XC runner-up.


**SRC**