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Matt Haugen, Bob Hauck to lead triathlon training camp June 9-10 at St. Olaf College

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May 31, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? USA triathlon national team coach Matt Haugen and St. Olaf swim coach Bob Hauck will lead the most comprehensive triathlon training camp in the Midwest on Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10, at St. Olaf College.

The St. Olaf Triathlon Training Camp is open to triathletes of all skill levels, from beginners to seasoned competitors. The camp, which is still accepting reservations, starts at 8 a.m. June 9 and ends at 4:30 p.m. June 10.

The camp is designed to improve triathlon performance, emphasizing swimming, biking and running as well as transitions, personal training programs, physiology of conditioning, nutrition, recovery, strength training and sports psychology. It features individual attention and a comprehensive program addressing all aspects of the race.

Matt Haugen has been program director and teams coach of the USA triathlon national teams since 1997. He was named USOC Triathlon National Coach of the Year in 1997, 1998 and 1999. He has taught sport psychology, triathlon training and fitness at St. Olaf College, and has coached cross-country, Nordic skiing and track. On seven occasions his teams finished in the top 10 of the Division III national championships, winning two national titles.

Since 1983 Haugen has competed in duathlons, triathlons, ironman triathlons and ultramarathon events. He earned his master?s degree in exercise science at Pennsylvania State University and is a doctoral candidate in kinesiology at the University of Minnesota.

Bob Hauck has co-coached the St. Olaf College men?s and women?s swim teams for the last 13 years, and during that time the teams have won 23 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships. He has coached seven national champions, and as a swimmer at St. Olaf was a 23-time All-American. Hauck won seven national titles and set three national records, and currently holds the Division III national record in the 400 individual medley. He was a world-ranked backstroker and competed in the 1988 Olympic trials.

St. Olaf College?s athletic facilities include a six-lane training pool with underwater video window, well-equipped weight rooms, a new all-weather 400-meter track and outstanding cross-country trails which have been the site of many state high school meets. St. Olaf offers lodging in air-conditioned Ytterboe Hall and excellent, healthy meals prepared by Bon Appetit.

The $200 camp fee includes coaching, materials, a camp T-shirt, meals and a Saturday night stay on campus. For more information or to register call (507) 646-3043, e-mail summer@stolaf.edu, visit the summer events website at www.stolaf.edu/services/conferences, or write to Camp St. Olaf, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN, 55057-1098.

Other events this summer at St. Olaf College include the St. Olaf Soccer Camp June 10-14, the St. Olaf Summer Music Camp June 17-24, the St. Olaf Tennis Camp June 17-21 and the St. Olaf Swim Camps June 17-21 and June 24-28.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.