CSUDH Welcomes Velocity Sports Performance as Official Sports Performance Training Center for Toros Athletics
March 11, 2006

Additional information courtesy of Velocity Sports Performance

Carson, CA -- Cal State Dominguez Hills Athletics Director Patrick Guillen has announced a corporate partnership with Velocity Sports Performance, a state-of-the-art training center in Redondo Beach which now serves as the official sports performance training center for Toros Athletics.

“We are really excited about our new partnership with Velocity Sports Performance, and I can’t think of a more ideal and mutually beneficial relationship,” states Guillen. “On top of this, we are proud to work with first-class individuals in owner Brad Beale, Performance Director Ken Vick and Recruiting Director Don Turner. The three are local products that have a true passion for the South Bay community and this goes hand-in-hand with our philosophy here at CSUDH.”

Founded by world renowned coach Loren Seagrave, who has coached Olympic athletes, NFL players and long distance runners, Velocity Sports Performance will offer CSUDH athletes advanced sports performance training, helping them increase speed, power and agility, all while avoiding sports-related injuries. VSP brings scientifically based training, taught by an experienced, highly educated, qualified staff of coaches, to all CSUDH student-athletes and coaches.

Ken Vick, who will serve as the Sports Performance Director for the South Bay training center, is a recognized expert in sports performance training and assessment with 14 years of coaching in sports performance, weightlifting, soccer, track, and water polo. After earning a BA from Columbia College and completing graduate studies in Biomechanics and Motor Control at Long Beach State, Vick has coached hundreds of elite athletes represented in the NFL, NBA, NHL, AVP, the last 3 Summer and Winter Olympic Teams, minor leagues and at over 50 NCAA Division I and NAIA schools.

”We are very excited to be able to work with a quality organization such as the CSUDH athletic department,” begins Vick of the relationship formed with CSUDH Athletics. “There is a history of success with many of the Toro teams and the training Toro athletes do at Velocity Sports Performance will translate to even more success for CSUDH athletics. We teach athletes the science behind speed and athletics, allowing them to gain maximum power and decrease their chance of injuries, and our goal is to provide a safe, positive environment that promotes long-term psychological and physical development, leading to increased confidence, character and overall life success.”

In addition to serving as the official sports performance training center for Toros Athletics, VSP will salute one male and one female Toros Athlete of the Week, beginning with this week’s selections, softball’s Cindy Perry-Brown (Victorville, CA/Silverado HS) and baseball’s Jason Klug (Moreno Valley, CA/San Bernardino Valley College).