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About

High Peaks Elite is extremely proud of the abilities and accomplishments of the team of coaches affiliated with our mission. Our camp has an athlete-to-coach ratio of 4:1, with many regional, as well as national-level coaches. Several nationally known clinicians will conduct clinics on various training methods, physiology of endurance training, injury prevention and treatment, as well as leading discussions on various aspects of the lifestyles of the emerging elite athlete.
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Lauren Burke

Fairport High School graduate in 2011 where she was a school record holder outdoors in the 200, 400, 4 x 400 relay as well as the 4 x 800 relay. Indoor Section V record holder in the 4 x 400 relay, 4 x 800 relay and Distance Medley relays. Outdoor Section V record holder in the 4 x 800 relay.  Lauren is currently completing a Doctor of Pharmacy program at the University of Rhode Island, Class of 2017.
  • Member of URI Track & Field team as long sprints/middle distance runner (New England Champions 2012, 2013, 2014)
  • URI school record holder in 500m (1:14.04])
  • Attended camp as a high school athlete and enjoys returning as a Mentor Coach.
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Kathy Champagne

  • Head Track Coach at Seton Catholic (starting with Indoor Season) since 2004
  • Assistant Cross Country Coach since Fall 2007
  • USATF Level 1 Coach
  • 1988 Olympic Trials Qualifier in the Marathon

Kathy has been coaching at camp since the summer of 2009.  Kathy’s philosophy is that young runners need to develop over time.  While providing great coaching practices, true success is in the hands of the athlete and how willing they are to do the day to day mundane tasks to take them from good to great.
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Kyle Dacey

  • Member of the Fairport Varsity Cross Country and Track teams 2003-2006 (2006 XC County and Sectional Team Champs)
  • Fairport Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach - 2010-Present
  • USATF Level 1 Coaching Certified
  • Pursuing Physical Education Teacher Certification at SUNY Brockport
Current PR's:
5K - 16:32
10K - 35:32
1/2 Marathon - 1:18
Marathon - 3:01


Currently competes year round in road/xc races for the Roadkill Racing club team. Two time Chicago Marathon finisher and has a goal of running in all 6 Marathon Majors beside Chicago; NYC, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, London are next on his list.  Has been a part of the coaching team at High Peaks Elite Distance Camp since 2013.  Likes hiking, eating cereal, coaching athletes to their fullest potential, watching Netflix, running on trails and the canal path, and enjoying a hearty breakfast with Coach Guido at Rikki's in Fairport.
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Dr. Jack Daniels

The legendary coach: Among recreational runners, Jack Daniels is best known as the author of Daniels' Running Formula. This how-to book is chock-a-block with training schedules for distances from 800 meters to the marathon, based on Daniels' decades of research in exercise science. Dr. Daniels coached at the State University of New York at Cortland for more than 15 years; during his time there, the women's team won one track and seven cross country Division III national titles. More recently, Daniels coached at Brevard College in North Carolina until 2012 and since accepted the position at Wells College in Aurora, NY.
Jack was a silver and bronze medalist in two Olympics competing in the Modern Pentathlon. He was also the High Altitude Director of the USATF facility in Flagstaff, Arizona.  He has been a clinician at High Peaks Elite Distance Camp at the US Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid for more than 35 camps since the early 1990s. He is also a regular clinician at Jim Ryan’s running camps.  Daniels has guided the training of dozens of elite runners over the years including many Olympians, most recently Magdalena Lewy Boulet, who competed at the  Bejiing Olympics and Jeff Eggelston at the World Track & Field Championships as American’s top marathon finisher in Moscow in 2013.
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Katie DeRusso

  • Member of varsity Cross Country and Track teams at Fairport High School, NY (1998-2003) and the University of Notre Dame (2003-2007)
  • Attended High Peaks Elite as an athlete from 2000-2003 and as a Mentor Coach/Coach since 2003.
  • Currently competes in road races for the Saucony Hurricanes racing team. Believes that consistency in training is key to reaching one's athletic goals.
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Christy Finke

Christy Finke is currently the Varsity Girls' Cross-Country Coach at Fairport, where she also teaches sixth grade. She is a Fairport alum, and enjoyed attending camps at the OTC while running cross-country and track in high school. She was a high school All American while competing Indoors. She later went on to run for Geneseo and helped the team win the NCAA Championship in 2005 and was an Indoor track All American.
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Jesse Garn

Jesse attended High Peaks camp at the USOTC while in high school and is now affiliated with High Peaks, as well as Aim High Running Camp. Philosophy - "Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge
Jesse Attended Marcellus High School and Binghamton University. Jesse trained from a 4:55 miler in high school to a 4 flat miler now, 2:15 800 runner to a 1:48 800 and school record holder.

  • Won the BU Last Chance Meet mile in 3:59.37 in March, 2014
  • Fourth place finish in the 2015 NCAA Championships' Final in the 800m earned him an All American certificate.
  • Goal is to qualify for the 2016 USA Olympic team.
  • Jesse's PR is 1:46.98.
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Rick Guido

  • Director of High Peaks Elite Distance Camp (formerly Eastern Regional Elite) since its inception in August of 1991, as well as Monroe County Distance camps in Belfast, NY and SUNY Alfred - over 80 distance camps since 1982.
  • Coached track and cross country at Rush-Henrietta and Fairport High School for almost forty years, with many Footlocker Finalists, Nike Finalists, NY State, Federation Champions, and two dozen Section V Track and Cross Country team Championships.
  • A five time NYS Cross Country Coach-of-the-Year as well as the 2000 National High School Athletic Coaches Association Finalist.
  • Inducted into the Section V Cross Country Hall of Fame in 2001 and into the Greater Rochester Track Club Hall of Fame in 2011.
Coach Guido's passion is developing as many athletes to be the best they can become as people as well as athletes. As a former English teacher at Rush-Henrietta and St. John Fisher College with a keen interest in writing, the athletes at camp follow this interest in writing with their Running Logs, Goal Setting and the Creative Writing projects at each camp. 
Email: HighPeaksElite@gmail.com
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Ross Hunkovic

Coach Hunkovic currently teaches Social Studies at Victor High School, where he is the head varsity boys track & field coach. He ran cross country and track for hall-of-fame coach, Mike Woods at SUNY Geneseo ['02-07], and is the SUNY Geneseo school record holder for 1500m [3:49.3].

As a teammate of Dan Moore and Christy Finke at SUNY Geneseo, they won numerous SUNY Championships and qualified for a number of D III NCAA Championships.

His coaching Philosophy: "I believe that coaching should be an extension of the education students learn in the classroom, and we should strive to develop each runner physically, psychologically, ethically and socially."
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Chad Maloy

  • Currently enrolled at Canisius College; studying Forensic Accounting.
  • Competes at the Division I level in Cross Country under Head Coach Nathan Huckle.
  • Chad is a Graduate from Springville Griffith Institute High School where he became the 2010 Class "B" Cross Country State Champion and 2011 runner-up in Steeplechase for small schools.  
“It is my dream to become a Coach at the University level where I would like to spread my knowledge of running.  I am a firm believer in individualized coaching and that running should not be short term, but a long term enjoyment.”
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Dan Moore

  • Coaches at the college and high school level, first as a volunteer graduate assistant coach at Alfred University (2 years), followed by Wayland-Cohocton High School (4 years), SUNY Geneseo (2 years)
  • Formerly the Associate Head Cross Country Coach and Assistant Track and Field Coach at St. John Fisher College. His coaching philosophy is simple: help athletes reach their full potential by individualizing training plans in line with team goals through his developmental, original, and motivating coaching methods. Outside of coaching, Moore is rigorously active in the world of triathlon, competing at the highest level by qualifying for the World Championship in Ironman.
  • In the spring of 2015, Dan was appointed the head Men's and Women's cross country coach at SUNY Geneseo.
  • Dan Moore is also one of the elite triathletes in the country and has competed at the world's Championships.
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Belinda O'Brien

Coach Belinda O'Brien began her coaching career as Boys JV coach for Fairport. In 2001 she began as head coach for Victor High School, coaching both boys and girls. Both boys and girls were sectional winners, and several state champions came along the way in addition to one Footlocker Finalist. While coaching Victor, the boys overall record was 282 wins, 13 losses. The girls 267 wins and 23 losses. Coach O'Brien was Coach of the Year several times for the Finger Lakes League and in the Monroe County League. She has been inducted into the Greater Rochester Running Club Hall of Fame as well as the Section V Cross Country Hall of Fame. Her own running accomplishments include being on the USATF Masters national winning team for Genesee Valley Harriers and running many marathons numerous times; Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Disney, Columbus and ultra marathons such as the JFK 50 Miler and the Hat Run, where she placed overall as winning her age group.
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Meghan McCormick

  • Member of Canandaigua cross country and track teams, 2007-2012.
  • A current member [rising senior] of the cross country and track teams at Cornell University where I am studying English Literature. I hope to coach a team in my future.
  • I attended High Peaks Elite from 2008 - 2012.
  • My time at camp helped me win 8 individual sectional championships and be part of 5 Canandaigua Section V Championships.
With advice and guidance from other National Finalists who attended camp, I qualified for Nike Cross National Championships in 2010, and I remain friends with them still. The clinics at camp were an integral part of my high school running experience, and I continue to use most of the camp clinics, especially so with the college recruiting clinic.
I am excited to come back to camp as a Mentor Coach and help give athletes the same kind of camp experience that I had!
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Mike Napierala

  • Owner of PEAK PERFORMANCE Physical Therapy & Sports Training in East Rochester, NY.  
  • Extensively trained in Functional Biomechanics and has obtained his Fellowship in Applied Functional Science along with being a National Board Certified Sports Specialist in Physical Therapy and a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA.  
Mike has 25 years experience working with runners from the recreational to elite level and is passionate about sharing the truths of function with runners so they can better train for optimal performance, prevent injuries, and recover quicker and more effectively when injuries do occur.  He has presented nationally and regionally on Functional Approaches and has worked with the coaches and runners at the Eastern Regional Elite Runners Camp at the USOTC since 2011.
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Jordyn Naylon

  • Graduated from Fairport High School in 2009. Ran XC, Indoor and Outdoor Track junior and senior years. On the Section V record-setting team for the DMR  [1200m leg]. Part of the "5 x 800" relay team which set the Section V record and went to indoor and outdoor nationals.
  • Majored in Exercise Science and ran XC, Indoor and Outdoor Track at SUNY Cortland.
  • Inducted into the SUNYAC Hall of Fame [2012] for coming in the top 10 at XC SUNYACS twice. 1st place in the mile [indoor SUNYACS 2012, 5:02]; 2nd place finishes in the mile at indoor SUNYACS sophomore year; 5 time DIII National Qualifier; finished top 20 at the Northeastern Regional XC Championships [2011, 2012]; 3rd place finish at ECAC Championships at the NYC Armory in the mile [4:57] solidified spot to Indoor NCAA Championships. All American in the mile [4:56.42] junior year, 2012.
  • Member of the SUNYAC Championship team, Indoors/Outdoors [2010-2013]. ranked top 20 in DIII in the 800m, 1500m and 5K [Outdoor Track, 2013]. SUNY Cortland team captain of the XC Team since sophomore year. PRs: 400, 62; 800: 2:15; 1500: 4:34.14; mile: 4:56.42; 5K: 17:26; 6K: 22:40. Attended Eastern Regional Elite Distance Camp during high school.
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Dr. Mike Reinhardt

Dr. Mike Reihardt is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, New York Chiropractic College and a veteran of the United States Air Force. During his graduate studies, he was intrigued by the complexity of the muscular system. This led him to his current expertise in treating the many soft tissue injuries that occur in runners. Using a combination of Active Release Techniques, physical therapy modalities and instrument-assisted soft tissue manipulation, his primary goal is to get athletes back to running quickly and safely. Identifying the cause of the injury and guiding runners to train safely and effectively is something he takes great pride in doing.

Dr. Reinhardt has qualified for both the Boston and New York City Marathons and is an Ironman Lake Placid Finisher. Dr. Reinhardt also coached the Harley School distance runners [2015] and helped them win the Section V Class D, T & F Championship in 2015.
He maintains a private practice in Rochester, NY where he lives with his wife and daughter.
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Angela Ryck

Angela is a 2009 graduate of Fairport High School, where she was a part of the Section V record-setting 4 x 800m relay team as well as the 4 x 400m relay & DMR Section V record setting Indoor Section V records. A 6-year member of both the Fairport Cross Country and Track & Field teams, Angela helped lead Fairport track to numerous Section V titles, and was voted MVP at the 2008 Section V Indoor Track Championships

Angela ran cross country and track at the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where she earned entry into the Monogram Club, and was a part of the 2013 Indoor Track Big East Champion team. Primarily a mid-distance runner in the past, Angela is now using the remainder of her NCAA cross country eligibility competing for George Washington University Colonials, her 1st place finish at the Catholic Invitational earned her “Performer of the Week” for the Atlantic 10 Conference.

Angela has played the violin for 18 years and was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. She brings her violin to camp each summer and always enjoys sharing her music with the athletes and other coaches.
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Jenn Spitzer

  • B.S. in Exercise Science and Sports Studies from Rutgers University
  • Currently pursuing Doctor of Chiropractic degree as well as Masters in Applied Clinical Nutrition from New York Chiropractic College.
  • Jenn is a former Fairport runner and a member of the Section V record holding 4x800m relay. She ran varsity track and cross country at Rutgers for all four years, and was the captain of the team her senior year. She is a strong proponent of incorporating a proper strength training program, and improving nutrition for all runners that want to "go to the next level."

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Richard L. Wolfe, Ph.D.

As a sports psychologist I have had the opportunity to work with elite level athletes for over 35 years. While I tend to focus on psychological factors, such as attention, concentration, anxiety, and motivation, my experience has taught me that the foundation of most sports, and especially running, is the sheer physical enjoyment of the activity. Therefore, my work with athletes often involves helping them re-connect with the physical (and psychological) experience of their sport and “disconnect“ from the negative effect of pressures, (e.g., unrealistic expectations, anticipatory anxiety) that normally accompany athletic success.
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Mike Woods

Head coach, Mike Woods, is in his 22nd year as the mentor for the men's and women's cross country teams at SUNY Geneseo. One of the nation's most decorated distance coaches, Woods has coached numerous national champions and All-Americans during his tenure with the Knights, while having been a part of 47 state University of New York Athletic Conference [SUNYAC] Championships, and garnering a total of 26 SUNYAC Coach of the Year honors.
Woods led the 2005 women's cross country team to the first team national championship in insitution history, and was named the NCAA Division III Women's Coach of the Year for his efforts. A 20-time SUNYAC Cross Country Coach of the Year [10 men, 10 women], he has guided 23 SUNYAC Championship teams [12 women, 11 men], while 13 of his Knights have run to 18 SUNYAC individual Championships and 59 of his runners have been inducted into the SUNYAC Cross Country Hall of Fame. Under his tutelage, the women won an unprecedented 10-straight SUNYAC titles from 2000-09. The men won a string of six from 2000-06.
Woods has served as the head coach for the Geneseo track & field programs for 12 years until 2004, when he started focusing solely on the distance runners as an assistant coach. As head coach, he led the Knights to seven indoor titles [three men, four women], along with four outdoor championships [3 women, 1 men].
All told, a total of 51 track & field/cross country competitors have combined for 124 All American certificates since Woods has been a part of the team. He has also been part of 25 women's and 22 men's SUNYAC Championships. During the 2002-'03 academic year, Woods led Geneseo to an unprecedented sweep of all six SUNYAC titles in cross country and track & field, before also helping the Knights repeat the feat three years later in 2005-06.
Prior to coming on board at Geneseo, Woods taught English at nearby York Central High School. He also coached boys and girls cross country teams for 21 years, compiling a dual meet record of 219-24, as well as the track & field teams for 20 years, running up a dual-meet mark of 208-36. In 2001, Woods was elected to the Section V Cross Country Hall of Fame.
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