sport performance
regiSTer Today For uSaT’S arT & SCienCe oF
TriaThlon inTernaTional CoaChing SyMpoSiuM!
February 12-14, 2010 Alicia Kendig, Jennifer Hutchison, Neal
Colorado SpringS, Co
Henderson, Boris Robinson, Stephen
uSaT CerTiFied CoaCheS earn 15 Ceu’S. McGregor, Andy Schmitz and Tim Crowley.
uSe ThiS linK To regiSTer:
Topics will include Athlete Development,
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Functional Path Training, Ironman Training,
Developing a Training Plan, Youth Specific:
The USAT Art and Science of Triathlon Training, Appropriate Distances and Race
International Coaching Symposium will Course Set-Up, Linking Coaches with Events
feature a dynamic lineup of international and and Race Directors, Business, Insurance,
national experts in triathlon. Nutrition, Coaching the Paratriathlete, Yoga
for Triathletes, Cycling Interval Training,
KeynoTe SpeaKerS inClude: Erik Vasa Swim Training, Using Technology for
Weihenmayer, the only blind man to summit Running, and Developmental Pathways for
Mt. Everest, Johan Bruyneel, 2009 Tour the High School/Collegiate Triathlete.
de France Astana Team Manager and Sue
Enquist, director of major gifts for UCLA SChedule oF evenTS
Athletics. Check-in for the Symposium will be held
on Thursday, February 11 from 4-6 p.m. The
preSenTerS inClude: Istvan Bayli, Symposium will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday,
Vern Gambetta, Mark Allen, Joe Friel, Sage February 12 and conclude at 1 p.m. on
Rountree, Andy MacDonald, Ben Greenfield, Sunday, February 14.
uSaT naMeS WeihenMayer KeynoTe SpeaKer
February 13, 2010 20, 2008, when he stood on top of Carstensz seen as pariahs, the teenagers ultimately
Colorado SpringS, Co
Pyramid, the tallest peak in Austral-Asia,
stood together at 21,500-feet, higher
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Weihenmayer completed his quest to climb
than any team of blind people in history.
the Seven Summits – the highest mountains
Blindsight, the documentary of the ascent,
eriK WeihenMayer
on each of the seven continents. Erik is joined
won the Peoples Choice Award at the L.A.,
World-ClaSS advenTurer
by fewer than 100 mountaineers who have
and London Film Festivals, and was released
WWW.TouChTheTop.CoM
accomplished the feat. Additionally, he has
theatrically in spring of 2007. The New York

scaled El Capitan, a 3300-foot overhanging
Times wrote, “Featuring extraordinary people
granite monolith in Yosemite; Lhosar, a
doing extraordinary things, Blindsight is one
3000-foot ice waterfall in the Himalayas;
of those documentaries with the power to
and a difficult and rarely climbed rock
make you re-examine your entire life – or at
face on 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya.
least get off the couch.”
In September, 2003, Erik joined
A former middle school teacher and
320 stellar athletes from 17 countries
wrestling coach, Erik is one of the most
to compete in the Primal Quest, the
exciting and well-known athletes in the world.
richest and toughest multi-sport
Despite losing his vision at age 13, Erik has
adventure race in the world: 457 miles
become an accomplished mountain climber,
through the Sierra Nevada’s, nine days,
paraglider, and skier, who has never let his
60,000 feet of elevation gain, and no
blindness interfere with his passion for an
time-outs. Averaging only two hours of
exhilarating and fulfilling life. Erik’s feats
sleep a night, Erik and his team surged
have earned him an ESPY award, recognition
past the finish line on Lake Tahoe,
by Time Magazine for one of the greatest
becoming one of the 42 teams to cross
sporting achievements of 2001, induction
the finish line out of the 80 teams that
into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame,
began.
an ARETE Award for the superlative athletic
After Erik’s Mt. Everest ascent,
performance of the year, the Helen Keller
Braille Without Borders, a training
Lifetime Achievement award, Nike’s Casey
USAT is proud to welcome Erik Weihenmayer
center for the blind in Tibet, invited him to
Martin Award, and the Freedom Foundation’s
as a keynote presenter at the 2010 Art and
teach its students mountaineering and rock
Free Spirit Award. He has also carried the
Science of Triathlon International Coaching
climbing. His many climbs gave the teenagers
Olympic Torch for both the Summer and
Symposium.
the courage to excel in a culture which affords
Winter Games.
few opportunities for the blind. Erik and
In addition to being a world-class athlete,
o
n May 25, 2001, Erik Weihenmayer
six Everest team members went to Tibet in
Erik is also the author of the book, Touch
became the only blind man in history
May 2004 to train the students, and then in
the Top of the World, published in eleven
to reach the summit of the world’s
October led them on a climb to the Rombuk
countries and eight languages. According to
highest peak - Mount Everest. On August
Glacier on the north side of Mt. Everest. Once
Publisher’s Weekly, Erik’s memoir is “moving
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