Coaching Staff
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As an Alumnus (Saint Martin’s University Class of ’04), member of the SMU Athletics Hall of Fame, and 1500m NCAA All-American: Coach Carlson has a passion and commitment to see the Cross Country/Track & Field Program excel and to individually develop runners to get the most out of their abilities.
He has coached from high school all the way up to the professional level and all his runners have had success and greatly improved.
Within 1.5 years post-collegiately, professionally coached a female runner to improve and her times and get a professional contract with Brooks, while running the following:
Castle High School Distance Coach 2017-2019 Aloha Cross Country Camp Coach 2011-2019
Saint Martin’s University Assistant Cross Country Coach 2004 NCAA DII All-American in the 1500m, placed 8th at the NCAA National Championship. Placed 32nd at the 2012 USA Cross Country National Championships as a member of the All-Army Team. Saint Martin’s University School record holder and conference champion in the mile, 1500m, Indoor Distance Medley Relay. Runner Up GNAC 1500m Conference Championships in 2002 & 2003. Washington State high school State Champion in the 800-meter and 1600-meter. 2 Time ESPN The Magazine Verizon Track & Field/XC Academic All-American 9 Time NCAA Academic All-American (XC, Indoor, and Outdoor Track) GNAC Sportsmanship of the Year Award Winner 2004-05 GNAC Academic Athlete of the Year 2004-2005
Competed in 5k up to marathon distance road races around the world from 2005 until 2019 Currently serves as an officer in the Army Reserves where he does his annual duty every summer helping to write the curriculum for the military’s Joint Service Physical Therapy Technician Program. APTA board certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist. NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist who further specializes in running form analysis and teaching running form. Graduated from Saint Martin’s University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Commissioned in the Army in 2005 and received his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree through the US Army – Baylor University Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy in 2008. Served 8 years as an active-duty Army physical therapist where he also continued to run competitively around the world for the Army and received the Bronze Star Award while serving in Iraq as a physical therapist from 2009-2010. Since 2011 - taught running form classes, spoke at national conferences, and taught at cross country camps - performing over 7,000 individual video running analyses of patients and runners from age 13 to 60 years old. Since 2013, has been working as a full-time government civilian outpatient physical therapist at military hospitals in Hawaii and Washington State. Currently, he lives in Tacoma, WA with his wife and works at an Army outpatient clinic and runs a bi-weekly running form video analysis class.
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Nate Carlson
Dwight Midles
Brianna Cabrer
Larry Weber
Steve Schultz