What is Steadfast?
The creation of Steadfast Track Academy in 2020 is just the tip of the iceberg. This team has actually been years in the making. I’ve trained youth athletes since 2014, and competed in collegiate track and field from 2011-2016. And over time I’ve found that it’s not enough to just teach athletes how to run faster. In order to really master their craft, athletes must understand the essential foundations of their movement and become independent learners so they can carry their skills on with them at all levels of competition. After all, this sport demands you control the variables to impact your own performance. No one else can run, throw, or jump for you. Thus I base my training philosophy in mindfulness, autonomy, and resiliency. I started Steadfast to provide elite track athletes from the high school to the post-collegiate levels with organized, intentional, and individualized world class track and field specific training that can be hard to come by outside of college. Athletes who join the academy can expect ownership of training, mental and physical growth, and coaching that builds the foundation for breakthrough performances.
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Markus earned his B.S. in Exercise Science from the University of New Mexico in 2016 and competed for the UNM track and field team from 2011-2016 as a high jumper, earning All-Conference and leaving a mark that is in the top 10 all time at New Mexico. Markus has fourteen years of experience competing in track and field, and ten years of high level sports performance coaching experience. Markus is also the head track & field coach at Valor Christian High School during the Colorado High School track & field season.
Markus works to provide world class speed and strength coaching to all of the people he works with and has a passion for developing mindful and resilient athletes. Markus’s certifications include: CSCS, USA Track and Field Level 1, USA-Weightlifting Level 1
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Julee Haley has been coaching and training athletes from professional to youth for the last 17 years. Julee has unique skills in movement development and has worked with many different sports and various athlete needs. She worked for Movement Training Systems for 10 years where she was involved in training athletes from the high school, college and professional sectors including various sports at Columbia University in NYC. She has been a head track and cross country coach and currently serves as an assistant at Valor Christian High School in the track and field program and helped lead them to back to back state championships and a men's and women's double championship in 2019. She is a certified coach with the Colorado State Association of Athletics and a member coach with USA Track & Field.
Julee was a pole vaulter at the University of Northern Colorado. She was among some of the first female athletes to compete in the event as it was just added by the national federation in 1996. She is a Colorado native and earned a Bachelors degree from the University of Northern Colorado. Julee also operates her own personal fitness business.
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Casey has coached track and field at the youth and high school levels since 2015. She competed in the long jump, triple jump, and pentathlon at the University of New Mexico from 2012-2016. She specializes in coaching the horizontal jumps with Steadfast. She also coaches the horizontal jump events at Valor Christian High School.
Casey helped found Steadfast with Markus in 2020 while working as a Learning Specialist at the University of Colorado's Herbst Academic Center. In addition to track coaching, Casey offers academic and college prep support to Steadfast student-athletes.
Bushido: Japanese, “Way of the Warrior”
A code of honor that embodies a way of living. We compete with honor and respect for all who walk the path we do.
Styrkr: Old Norse, “Bodily Strength”
A term that we embrace, synonymous with the resiliency of steadfastness. We train to fortify strength: mind, body, and spirit.
