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Velocity coaches to speak to local runners

The guest speakers at this month’s meeting of the Peachtree City Running Club are Coach C.J. Stockel and Barry Falcon of Velocity Sports Performance.

Velocity Sports Performance is a business built on science and bio-mechanical principals. Their objective is to improve athletic performance through teaching proper form and technique in movement. The facility trains athletes from the ages of seven to seventy years old and their programs offer dynamic warm ups, multi-directional movement and basic strength training for the whole body. All of their coaches have college degrees and coaching experience from high school to professional level athletes. Coach Stockel is the Sports Performance Director at the Velocity in Peachtree City. This past year he was awarded two National Coach of the Year honors. The United States Weightlifting Association chose Coach Stockel as the Developmental Coach of the Year and American Football Monthly chose him as the National High School Weightlifting Coach of the Year. He is presently a Regional Coach with USA Weightlifting and was on the coaching staff for the USA Junior Pan Am Team that competed in Santiago, Chili. 

He came to Velocity from Woodward Academy, where he was the Strength and Conditioning Coach for five years and built a nationally ranked Olympic Style Weightlifting Team. He has coached over 15 individual national champions, three international team members, three national junior team members and the 2003 Women's School Age National Champions.

Coach Stockel's career prior to Woodward Academy includes nineteen years of coaching in Georgia High Schools. In his six years as a head coach in track and field, he won three region championships, coaching nine state medal winners and two state record holders. 

In 1999, Coach Stockel was awarded USA Weightlifting Coach of the Year, and he was a finalist for the USOC Developmental Coach of the Year. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Georgia and his Master of Science degree at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.

The Peachtree City Running Club meets at the Wyndham Peachtree Executive Conference Center the first Monday of every month at 7 p.m. The public is always invited to attend and listen to a wide variety of guest speakers talk about a number of topics related to running, health and fitness. Their next scheduled meeting is Monday, March 7.