The coaches at the Speeders Track Club have a passion for sprinting, and all are former or current track athletes. They have deep experience coaching sprints and working with athletes of all ages and skill levels.
Brendon Kensel
Head Track Coach
Brendon founded the Speeders Track Club in 2014 to give back to a sport that was good to him and to build a community of youth sprinters. Over the years Brendon has helped develop and train hundreds of youth track athletes.
Brendon is a certified USA Track & Field Level 1 coach. He has continued his education in short sprints through ALTIS, an elite training environment for athletes, and a global leader of education in sport performance. Brendon was a collegiate sprinter at Central Washington University and ran the 400m and the 4x400m relay. When not coaching, he is a CEO at a fintech start-up.
Brendon received a B.S. from Central Washington University and a M.B.A. from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. He studied global enterprise management at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and leader development at the U.S. Army War College.
Anthony Applequist
Track Coach
Anthony Applequist is a seasoned track and field coach with a deep background in specialized sports training. Anthony is an assistant track and field coach at Fullerton College, specializing in the horizontal jumps. He began his coaching career at Orange Coast College, where he coached sprints, jumps, and multis. During his coaching career, Anthony helped coach Dhanushka Sandaruwan to the Sri Lankan national indoor long jump record.
Anthony competed in the triple and long jump at Cal State Fullerton, where he also earned a B.S. in Kinesiology. During his time at CSUF, he won two Big West Conference team championships and was the Big West athlete of the week on multiple occasions. Anthony continued his education and athletic career at Keiser University and was the 2019 NAIA Indoor National Champion in the triple pump. He competed in the 2022 USATF Outdoor Championships and the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in the triple jump.
Anthony is a certified USA Track & Field Level 1 coach and is currently completing his Masters in Coaching and Exercise Science at Concordia University.
Noah Rogers
Track Coach
Noah is an experienced coach and track and field athlete. He is the head sprint coach at Corona del Mar High School where he also coaches the hurdles and jumps. Over the past several seasons he has helped athletes set multiple school records and qualify for CIF Masters and State Championships.
Noah currently competes professionally for the Australian National Team in the 110m and 400m hurdles. He’s qualified for three Olympic Trials, two Oceania Championships, the World University Games, and World Athletics Continental Tour events in multiple countries. He ranks top 50 All-Time in Australian history in the 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles and his highest World Ranking was 77th in the 400m hurdles and 259th in the 110m hurdles. In his spare time, Noah is an IMG model.
Noah studied and competed in track and field at Vanguard University. He was a collegiate All-American in the 400m hurdles, set multiple school records and won multiple conference championships in the hurdles and relays.
Juwan Haynes
Track Coach
Juwan is an experienced sports performance coach, positions coach, and stunt athletic performer with a passion for developing athletes at every level—from youth to professional. Since 2022, Juwan has been a sports performance coach at Equinox Newport Beach.
A multi-sport athlete in high school, Juwan excelled in football, basketball, and track, competing in the 200m, 400m, and 4x400m relay. In college Juwan played cornerback for the University of Toledo for four years, graduating with a B.A. in Communications. After college Juwan played in the National Arena League and in the Austrian Football League, where he earned All-Star honors in 2021. He also had tryouts with the Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions, and Atlanta Falcons.
Juwan is currently pursuing a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. In addition to coaching, Juwan is also a stunt athletic performer and actor and was recently featured in the hit CW Network show All American.
Teddy Barber
Speed Coach
Teddy is an experienced sports performance coach and has worked with a wide range of athletes at the youth, high school, collegiate, and professional levels.
Teddy has been a sports performance coach at Evo Sports Training since 2020, where he has worked with world-renowned speed expert Gary Cablayan. Coach Barber is also the head strength coach for the Corona del Mar High School football team and is also the varsity defensive line coach and head coach for the JV team.
Coach Barber attended Corona del Mar High School and played football, rugby, and competed in track in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay. He also played football at Orange Coast Community College.
Kyle Miller
Speed Coach
Kyle is an experienced sports performance coach and has worked with athletes of many different sports at youth, high school, college, and professional levels.
Kyle is an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Concordia University Irvine where he works with five NCAA DII sports programs. He is also an assistant sports performance coach at Marke1 Performance where he helps prepare top college football prospects for the NFL combine and works with current NFL players with their off-season training.
Before coaching, Kyle attended Marina High School where he played soccer and earned all-conference honors. Kyle also competed overseas in France, Spain, Portugal, and Greece before playing in college at Concordia University Irvine.
Kyle earned his B.S. in Kinesiology from Concordia University and is currently completing his Masters in Coaching and Exercise Science at Concordia University.
Braden
Track Coach, Juniors
Braden launched the Juniors team in 2023 to help introduce younger athletes to sprinting. Braden raced with the Speeders Track Club from first grade through eighth grade, and in his last season he was on the 4x100m relay team that qualified for USATF regionals. He is now a Junior at JSerra High School.
James
Track Coach, Juniors
James is a founding coach of the Juniors team. James joined the Speeders Track Club as an athlete as a fifth grader and in his eighth-grade year he was the Southern California SCMAF champion in the 100m and 200m. He is now a Junior at Newport Harbor High School.