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Tom McGlynn
Head Coach

Tom[@]focusnfly.com

Tom started Focus-N-Fly in 2002. His main objective was to equip more runners with the successful training philosophies he was exposed to. In 2007 Tom and the team found a way to make our proven training more widely available through the new online resource

Tom has qualified for the Olympic Trials Marathon three times (2000 ’04 and ’08). He trained under legendary coach Harry Groves at Penn State and graduated in 1996. Tom ran with the Nike Farm Team and Coaches Jeff Johnson, Vin Lananna, Jack Daniels and Ray Appenheimer from 1996-2004. From 2004-2006 Tom served as Assistant Distance Coach to Frank Gagliano for the Nike Farm Team.

Through Focus-N-Fly Tom has helped thousands of runners set new PR’s. He has trained Marathoners ranging from 2:15 to 8:15 and remains convinced that anyone can improve their running with the right approach.

Dena Evans
Business Dev & Coach

devans[@]focusnfly.com

Dena Evans joined Focus-N-Fly in July, 2008 and has a wide range of experience working with athletes of all stripes- from youth to veteran division competitors, novice to international caliber athletes.

From 1999-2005, she served on the Stanford Track & Field/ Cross Country staff. Dena earned NCAA Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year honors in 2003 as Stanford won the NCAA Division I Championship. She was named Pac-10 Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2003-04, and West Regional Coach of the Year in 2004.

From 2006-08, she worked with the Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative, helping to expand the after school fitness programs for elementary school aged girls to Mountain View, East Menlo Park, and Redwood City. She has also served both the Stanford Center on Ethics and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession as a program coordinator.

Dena graduated from Stanford in 1996.

R Sreenivasan
Head of Technology

rsreenivasan[@]focusnfly.com

Renga joined Focus-N-Fly in July, 2008. He has extensive experience in Software Development especially in ERP Applications Development, Database Design and Data Warehousing.

From 1996-2004, He worked as a Development Manager of Order Management Applications Division at Oracle HQ. From 2004-2007, he worked as a Data Warehouse Architect consulting with companies like EFI, Sephora, and Shutterfly.

Renga’s interest and passion for long distance running started when he was an under graduate student at the University of Wisconsin – Superior. He was a varsity Cross Country and Track Athlete from 1992 – 1996. However, he quit running after several injuries.

He met Tom a few years ago and started training again under Focus-N-Fly. With renewed passion for running and training, he decided to become an active member of the Focus-N-Fly team and help develop the Focus-N-Fly Training Application.

Jack Daniels PhD
Currently the Head Distance Coach at the Center for High Altitude Training at Northern Arizona University, Jack has 31 years of experience as a track and cross country coach. He has not only coached 31 individual NCAA National Champions, but has also coached eight NCAA National Team Champions and 131 All Americans. He was named the NCAA Cross Country "Coach of the Century," has been the "National Coach of the Year" three times and was named the "World’s Best Coach" by Runner’s World Magazine.

Jack has provided infinite resources and data that has helped automate the Focus-N-Fly solution.

Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson was the first employee at Nike. Not only did he come up with the name for the company he also helped them become an independent U.S. manufacturer and distributor. Jeff started the Nike Farm Team in Palo Alto in 1994. He also coached many high school state champions in New Hampshire and has helped myriad post-collegiate athletes reach National and International prominence.

Jeff has been a tremendous mentor and proponent of the train at current fitness level to race at peak performance mantra for Focus-N-Fly.

Gary Stolz
Gary Stolz was an NCAA runner-up in Cross Country in 1992. After graduation from Stanford he joined the Nike Farm Team where he routinely ranked in the Top 10 in the country in the 5,000m and 10,000m. Gary won the first Marathon he entered in 1999 in Long Beach, CA.

Gary developed all aspects of the original Focus-N-Fly athlete tracking system and has been a tremendous supporter of the team.