Coach Devin Elizondo
UCLA alumnus Devin Elizondo spent five seasons with the Bruins as an assistant coach for cross country and track and field and four seasons coaching at UC Davis. Now at Cal State Long Beach coach Elizondo brings a wealth of distance running acumen and an extensive resume of coaching experience that will certainly benefit the Bruins’ distance program.
Elizondo graduated from UCLA in 1998 with a degree in history and enjoyed great success as a distance runner for the Bruins. He was a member of three Pac-10 track and field championship teams and also helped lead the cross country team to a pair of third-place conference finishes.
Elizondo has also had an extensive history of youth outreach in Southern California involving athletics. He joined the LA84 foundation in 2007 and worked to organize cross country and track and field clinics at over 1,600 high schools in the Southern California Area. He has also been heavily involved in Runner’s Workshop since 1994, a summer cross country camp at which Elizondo regularly creates lecture series and workouts for campers.
Coach Tim O’Rourke
One of the giants of our sport. Coach O’Rourke’s cross country teams had a dual meet record of 127-7 during his long coaching career. He is in the California Coaches Hall of Fame and his top team was National Champions! Tim has coordinated the Mt. Sac Cross Couttry Invitational for the past 20 years. If you’ve raced in California and heard the best race announcer around – then you have heard coach O’Rourke. He brings years of experience as a coach and LA84 Olympic Committee clinician to the daily clinics and workouts. Simply put he’s a G.O.A.T!
Mark Celestin
Mark founded Runner’s Workshop in 1985, and has directed 112 Runner’s Workshop camps in the past 40 years. Coach Celestin has coached at Los Alamitos High School since 1984 and was selected as Orange County Coach of the Year in 1989, and Orange County Teacher of the Year in 1999. Mark was a 1:51.2 800-meter runner and national qualifier at U.C. Irvine. He brings a wealth of experience in running safe, athletically engaging and fun camps
Bree Thorpe – Bishop – Gorman HS
Coach Thorpe 2021 State Champion coach was recently named Nevada Coach of the Year will be a guest speaker this summer at our Yosemite camp.
An additional Top Collegiate or High School coach will be added to the staff this Spring.
HOKA Elite Athletes
Each summer HOKA sends elite athletes / guest speakers who share their running journey with our athletes. From their start as high school runners through college and on to professional running. All runners face similar challenges – they give personal insight into their path to achieving their potential.
Collegiate Counselors
Each summer we hire over 30 top collegiate runners from around the nation to work with our athletes and share their training and running experience as camp counselors. The counselors lead each run, recreation activity, theme night and nightly “cabin talks” that focus on common running topics like nutrition, race strategy, dealing with pre-race nerves,…