Killeen / Fort Hood / Copperas Cove / Harker Heights
Train unattached with other competitive athletes
Distance 800M – 10K
RUN FASTER, TRAIN SMARTER
Killeen / Fort Hood / Copperas Cove / Harker Heights
Train unattached with other competitive athletes
Distance 800M – 10K
RUN FASTER, TRAIN SMARTER
Coach Drea retired from the US Army in 2024 after 20 years of service and returned to college to study exercise physiology and strength and conditioning. She retained her NCAA eligibility and walked on her university's cross country team, where she earned ASC New Comer of the Year for 2024, and first team All Conference for 2025. Her hope is to experience training and competing at the collegiate level in order to better teach and mentor young athletes.
Coach Drea has her RRCA run coach certification, as well as her Master Fitness Trainer certification through the U.S. Army. She has qualified for 6 Army installation 10-miler teams. She has trained and coached hundreds of Soldiers, and in 2025 began coaching youth. In her first year, all of her athletes qualified for AAU regionals, with one continuing on to place 3rd at the AAU Junior Olympics in the 1500M.
Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and strength Deuteronomy 6:5
Be the hype man 1 Thessalonians 5: 11
Be salty stay lit Matthew 5: 13-16
Yet not I but Christ in me Galatians 2:20
Run like Jesus Hebrews 12:1-2
I train my athletes where they are to get them where they want to be.
I believe in building a foundation, meaning we run slow before we run fast. I do this through a phased approach: foundational phase, building phase, and fast phase.
Athletes are told the schedule in advance to mentally prepare for the workout. Athletes are provided with individually based goal times for each workout.
Proper recovery and nutrition are just as important as the workout. I build essential recovery days into the workout plan.
I believe strength training is essential to be fast and prevent injuries; I lack the proper facilities to offer weighted resistance training for my athletes. However, I do incorporate imperative strength and mobility drills that enhance athletes’ performance and prevent injuries.
I train to peak for a specific race.
I believe it is better to be 10% under trained than 1% overtrained. To take this philosophy deeper, when training youth no one practice, race, or season is so imperative to an athlete that I will train them through injury or illness. I believe in creating and training lifelong athletes not seasonal machines.
I believe mental toughness can account for more than natural talent, and if trained properly a mentally tough athlete will see great triumph. Mental toughness and natural talent combined are what Olympians are made of. As a coach I believe it is my job to coach my athletes through the mental challenges of a race. This starts and is developed at practice.
I encourage my athletes by giving them goals to reach at each practice. Running is inherently an individual sport, but requires more grit than other sports. We need to be aware we are asking our athlete to perform at maximum capacity over a specified distance-- in other words we are asking they run with all their energy, strength, power, and will. This is no easy feat especially for a younger child or teenager who may have never experienced such a demanding physical load. (Keep in mind my athletes are not racing 100M, they are training for distances over 800M.) This mental toughness can only be derived from the will to run, not the fear of punishment.
Fort Hood / Copperas Cove / Killeen / Harker Heights Area
Distance 800M – 10K
Youth entering 7th grade – college (exceptions can be requested)
Spring semester through summer training
Access to Fort Hood required (can be requested at visitor center)
Space is limited
Sign up with Coach Drea by 27 February 2026
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