Meet John Evans
John Evans' Background:
Men’s Head Track Coach, Mohawk High School
- Managed 28 men with minimal assistance
- Provided specific, individualized, and progressive training to promote long term athletic development
- Taught correct sprinting, jumping, and throwing mechanics specific to track and field
Undergraduate Professor
Taught three undergraduate courses: exercise physiology lab, anatomical kinesiology lab, and physical well-being
Fall, 2015Olympic Training Site Weightlifting Coach
Communicated training ideas and received feedback while working with OTS coach, Vance Newgard
Fall, 2015Collegiate Volunteer Assistant Track Coach, NMU
- Helped organize team training
- Assisted in planning training for short sprints, hurdles, and jumps
Sprints, Hurdles, Jumps Intern - ALTIS
- Accumulated 500+ hours apprenticing under Stu McMillan, Dan Pfaff, and Andreas Behm
- Assisted in the Olympic preparation of 16 athletes, including Andre De Grasse, Greg Rutherford, and Ameer Webb.
- Attended 3 Apprentice Coaching Programs and 2 Performance Therapy Programs, featuring lectures from Brett Bartholomew, John Berardi, and Matt Jordan
- Assisted with ATLIS social media accounts, including live tweeting, videoing, and reviewing ALTIS 360 content
Worked in Research Lab
- Assess blood lactate measures through implementation of Accusport Blood Lactate Analyzer
- Implement blood lactate protocols to assess lactate thresholds
Sports Performance Coach, Athletic Lab: Cary, NC
- Assistant coached post-collegiate decathletes
- Designed and implemented social media and marketing strategies
- Assisted with sport science at the 2016 USATF Olympic Trials
- Prior to working, interned 1000 hours as mentee to founder, Mike Young, PhD
Collegiate Volunteer Assistant Track Coach, Duke
- Assisted Duke track and field coaches in daily training for hurdles, jumps, sprints, and multi event athletes
- Specialized in coaching technical elements for men’s and women’s high jump
- Helped lead Duke women’s track and field to a first and second place finish at ACCs