Killeen / Fort Hood / Copperas Cove / Harker Heights
Train with other competitive athletes on a team OR unattached
Distance 800M – 10K
Killeen / Fort Hood / Copperas Cove / Harker Heights
Train with other competitive athletes on a team OR unattached
Distance 800M – 10K
Coach Drea retired from the U.S. Army in 2024 after 20 years of honorable service and returned to college to pursue her passion for exercise physiology, strength and conditioning, and athletic development. While completing her studies, she retained her NCAA eligibility and walked on to her university’s cross country team. In 2024, she was named ASC Newcomer of the Year and earned First Team All-Conference honors in 2025.
Coach Drea’s decision to compete at the collegiate level was intentional—to gain firsthand experience with the demands of training and competition so she can better teach, mentor, and develop the next generation of athletes.
Coach Drea holds an RRCA Run Coach Certification and is a U.S. Army-certified Master Fitness Trainer. During her military career, she qualified for six Army installation 10-miler teams and trained and coached hundreds of Soldiers in physical fitness and performance. In 2025, she expanded her coaching to youth athletes, bringing her military leadership, competitive experience, and passion for athlete development to the next generation.
All of Coach Drea's runners qualified for regional competition, with multiple athletes going on to earn All-American honors at the Junior Olympics—a testament to her commitment to developing confident, disciplined, and high-performing athletes.
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
Copperas Cove, TX, USA
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