ETG Bio's
Membership in the ETG is restricted primarily to athletes club owner Marshall Burt coached directly or indirectly when they were in high school at Fort Hunt, West Potomac, or W.T. Woodson High Schools in northern Virginia (Alexandria and Fairfax) in the mid - late 1980's, and part of the year of 1990. The club will grow to 25 - 30 members over the next 5 years.
Outside of the High School Connection pathway to automatic membership in the ETG, someone who does not have the High School Connection can alternatively become a club member by way of a lengthy application and selection process [see the ETG Application . This process is expected to accept another 50 - 100 athletes as members over the next 10 - 20 years.
The ETG is primarily focussed on elite level performance, and in addition, has club members with a variety of levels of personal goals and performance in the sport below the elite level.
After the 1992 & 1996 Olympic trials came and went with no ETG athletes qualified, further recruiting was put on hold while design flaws in the ETG training program were searched for, identified, and resolved. The process was anticipated to take a few months to a year. A decade and a half later, with such issues resolved and the recruiting base of athletes well into their 30's, the recruiting process [recruiting athletes formerly coached by club owner Marshall Burt] will restart in late 2009.
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The Elite Training Group track club --- The Business
---ETG Track & Field Promotions Project
---Understanding Track & Field
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Founding Club Members
During the initial 2 years of the club's founding in the early 1990's, several athletes were recruited into the club. Founding club members......
--- Conan McDonough [grad of West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)]
--- Gabrielle Pohlmann [grad of West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)]
--- Maria Mireles [grad of W.T. Woodson High School (Fairfax, Virginia)]
--- Melissa Brown [grad of West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)]
--- Julie Lindsay [grad of West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)]
--- Mike Morgovnik [grad of West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)]
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Current ETG Club Roster
3 - Kyle Crosby.....Current Residence --- Ruther Glen, Virginia --- Joined, December 2007 ----- High School Connection = West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)
2 - Gabrielle Patterson.....Current Residence --- Plano, Texas --- Joined, (1991-92, a founding club member) returned July 2007 ----- High School Connection = West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)
1 - Tim Collier.....Current Residence --- [U.S. Army] deployed to Germany --- Joined, December 2006 ----- High School Connection = West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Virginia)
Marshall Burt.....Current Residence --- Austin, Texas --- club founder and coach
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Top of PageCurrent Residence ------- Austin, Texas
Born ------- 1963 [Durham, North Carolina]
Founded The ETG ------- late 1991
For Marshall's bio please see the ETG Club History page of this website
See updates on Marshall's training on the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
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ETG Club Member Bios
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ETG Club Member ------- Kyle Crosby
Current Residence ------- Ruther Glen, Virginia
Born ------- 1972
Joined The ETG ------- December 2007
See updates on Kyle's training on the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
High School Connection ------- coached by ETG club owner Marshall Burt during his sophomore year at West Potomac High School, Alexandria, Virginia in the late 1980's.
High School & College ------- Graduated from West Potomac High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1990. College....graduated from Mary Washington University in Fredricksburg, Virginia
Some History ------- In high school, aside from cross-country, Kyle focused on the middle distances [primarily 800 meters] in track, and stayed in that area during his first years of collegiate track and field. Academically, he began to focus on music and develop his keyboard knowledge and skills while in college. After graduation, he funded his music career by working as a certified Business Process Manager at a major financial services company in Richmond, Virginia.
Kyle is now a professional musician. He owns -Lakeside-studio- which he built out of his home just outside Richmond Virginia where he produces local musicians in the Richmond area. Prior to opening his own studio, kyle was the keyboardist for the highly successful band "Copper Sails" which had appearances on the Richmond, Virginia local CBS news station's show called "Virginia This Morning", concerts at Richmond's giant venue called "The National", and songs licensed to MTV and ESPN off of their final album [Hiding Place]. Their song [Sleeping Giant] aired nationally in July 2008 during the "Diamond Cuts" segment of ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" highlight show. Their segment of the show......ESPN's Baseball Tonight. In late 2009, the band decided to call it quits. Their last concert was October 2009.
In 2002, Kyle married Karen Self, and they have a daughter [Brianna May]. Kyle's older brother Kevin Crosby [also coached in high school by ETG club owner Marshall Burt] is a serious cyclist, living in Blacksburg Virginia, where he is teaching and earning a PhD in Epidemiology at Virginia Tech University. Prior to joining the ETG, Kyle had been out of the sport for many years. Gained as much as 30 pounds, and eventually got into running for fitness and gradually lost the weight. One of his former high school teammates visited Austin and forwarded information catching him up with former ETG club member Mike Morgovnik [they lived 3 houses apart when they were in high school], and ETG club owner Marshall Burt [they lived about 100 yards apart when Kyle was in high school]. Several months later as his interest in getting back into the sport gradually grew, Kyle contacted Marshall and decided to return to serious training.
As an ETG club member, Kyle began training at a national class, 1:46 800m pace in September 2008 after completing progressions at a slower pace. At 1:46 pace he started at short durations and progressed quickly to the 250 meter mark before cutting back on ETG training as he was building and opening his music studio. He'll return to full ETG training after this transition period is completed.
Pre-ETG Personal Bests -------
400m = 54 [high school]
800m = 1:59 [college]
1600m = 4:50 [high school]
ETG Personal Bests -------
please see the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
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ETG Club Member ------- Gabrielle Patterson
Current Residence ------- Plano, Texas
Born ------- 1969 [Alexandria, Virginia]
Joined The ETG ------- [founding club member] rejoined, July 2007
See updates on Gabrielle's training on the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
High School Connection ------- coached by ETG club owner Marshall Burt for her sophomore through senior years at Ft. Hunt and West Potomac High Schools, Alexandria, Virginia in the mid to late 1980's.
High School & College ------- Graduated from West Potomac High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1988. College....graduated from University of Texas, in Austin, Texas
Some History ------- A 2-time High School All-American in cross-country, twice qualified and competed in the National High School Cross-Country Championships in in 1985 as well as in 1986. Her highest track ranking as the #9 fastest high schooler in the nation at 2miles indoors [Track & Field News Magazine high school list]. Her best outdoor performance a 5th place finish at Penn Relays in the 3000m [10:06....~10:46 2mile]
She went on to the University of Texas one year after Texas won the NCAA National championship in cross-country. Graduated with a 3.7 GPA in the Plan II honors program, and All-Conference honors in track.
Gabrielle worked at the University of Texas Exercise Physiology & Metabolism lab as a lab assistant for one of the world's leading sport sciences researchers, John Ivy [Dr. Ivy is a member of the ETG Elite Coaching Support Group]. She later attended Medical school at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, and is now self-employed as a Doctor of internal medicine in Richardson, Texas.
After college, she married John Patterson [1983 Texas 5A High School State Champion 400m (nicknamed "The fastest white-boy in Texas"), and 3-time NCAA Collegiate All-American at the University Of Texas] the track meet official in charge of the automatic timing system at the Texas Relays [serving 20 years +] and the AAU National Championships [serving 8 years +]. They have 2 daughters [Elisabeth Rose, and Katherine Grace]. Gabrielle's older brother Dirk Pohlmann [also coached in high school by ETG club owner Marshall Burt] is the 2007 winner of the 40-44 age group at the USA Cycling National Festival road race, and placed 6th in the masters World Championships time trial [20k in 25:15], and earned the silver medal [2nd place] in the road race [116k in 2:35:21].
She had been out of the sport [competitively] for many years, easing back into it in the 2005-2006 time frame, running a road 5k in 22 minutes. She turned 38 in May 2007, and ran 20:30. In July 2007 she re-joined the club with the goal of breaking 20:00 by her 40th birthday.
Pre-ETG Personal Bests -------
5k road = 16:40's [college]
5000m = 16:55 indoors [college]
3000m = 9:44 (~10:24 2mile)[college]
1600m = 5:02 [high school]
ETG Personal Bests -------
please see the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
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ETG Club Member ------- Tim Collier
Current Residence ------- Germany
Born ------- 1972 [Monterey, California]
Joined The ETG ------- December 2006
See updates on Tim's training on the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
High School Connection ------- coached by ETG club owner Marshall Burt for just over a year at West Potomac High School, Alexandria, Virginia in the late 1980's.
High School & College ------- Graduated from West Potomac High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1990. College....graduated from Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.
Some History ------- Tim is a Major in the United States Army. He completed his Masters degree in Strategic Studies in the summer of 2007 at the U.S. Air Force Air Command & Staff College in Alabama. While there he used portions of his ETG training program to lead a group of soldiers to personal bests in the running part of their physical training tests.
Tim was deployed to Iraq [Fall 2007] as a Civil Affairs Officer with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. He worked 16 - 18 hour days, helping to organize and oversee economic development and construction projects in the western Baghdad area.
In February 2009, Tim and his family moved to Germany, location of the headquarters for U.S. Operations in Africa. Having been in Iraq helping to rebuild the economy of the western Baghdad area, He is pursuing similar missions in countries in Africa. Thus far, Tim has served in Afghanistan, Kuwait, the horn of Africa, and Iraq.
He has managed to do some training periodically over during his deployments. He even hosted a 5k race while in Iraq. Tim will likely get back into some degree of ETG training after he gets settled in acclimated to his work schedule and travel.
Tim and his wife Carol, have two kids, Katie and Mike.
Pre-ETG Personal Bests -------
half-marathon = 1:30
marathon = 3:58
ETG Personal Bests -------
The running portion of the Military Physical Training Test
please see the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
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More club member bios to come as more reconnections with previously coached athletes take place, as recruitment of other athletes gets underway, and as others enter themselves into and complete the application process.
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See updates on training on the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
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please see the ETG Training & Performance Updates page of this website.
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