USA Cycling National Coaching Conference

Cost

• Early Bird Registration: $149 ends on August 31st
• Regular Registration: $199 end on November 12th 

What’s Included

• Live Zoom livestream access to core conference speaker presentations & panels
• 5 CEU Credits applied toward license renewal
• Digital conference materials
• Post-event presentation access

Please contact ssanchez@usacycling.org with questions.

Paul Laursen, Ph.D.

Dr. Paul Laursen is an internationally recognized sports scientist, endurance coach, and entrepreneur who serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Athletica, an AI-driven adaptive training platform for endurance athletes. With over 20 years of experience in high-performance sports, his work effectively bridges the gap between deep academic research and real-world athletic application.

Cody Stephenson, TrainingPeaks

Cody Stephenson is an endurance sports specialist and Level 1 Certified Coach who serves as the Education Program Manager at TrainingPeaks. In this role, he designs international education initiatives, shapes product strategy, and teaches coaches and athletes how to utilize data analytics and technology to maximize athletic potential.

Trevor Connor, Fast Talk Labs

Trevor Connor is an exercise physiologist, endurance coach, and former professional cyclist who serves as the Co-Founder and CEO of Fast Talk Laboratories. Renowned within the endurance sports community as the co-host of the highly influential Fast Talk podcast, his career seamlessly blends decades of elite competitive racing with clinical physiological data analysis.

Pat Warner, Stages Cycling

Pat Warner is a prominent cycling industry executive and an elite, world-class masters cyclist who served as the Senior Vice President of Product Development at Stages Cycling for over 14 years. Widely recognized for "walking the talk," Warner uses his intense competitive racing career to directly test, iterate, and refine high-performance cycling tech—including the iconic Stages Power meters and Stages Dash head units.

Jason Boynton, Ph.D., Boynton Coaching

Dr. Jason Boynton is an exercise physiologist, sport scientist, and elite cycling coach who serves as the Head Coach and Founder of Boynton Coaching. Known for an unwavering emphasis on epistemology, skepticism, and critical thinking, Dr. Boynton specializes in deconstructing sports science dogma and applying rigorous, peer-reviewed evidence to the training programs of endurance athletes.

Adam Mills, Source Endurance

Adam Mills, MSEd, is an elite endurance coach, sports scientist, and entrepreneur who serves as the Founder and CEO of Source Endurance. With over two decades of high-level coaching and competitive racing experience, Mills focuses on translating clinical exercise physiology into highly strategic, actionable execution for endurance athletes spanning from local beginners to Olympic contenders.

Sean Wilson, Ph.D., Andiamo Cycling

Dr. Sean M. Wilson is an exercise physiologist, a Professor of Medicine, and an elite youth cycling developer who serves as the Co-Founder and Head Coach of GS Andiamo, a highly regarded youth cycling development program based in Southern California. Dr. Wilson bridges the worlds of rigorous clinical laboratory science and grassroots community sports, using his deep expertise in human physiology to advocate for long-term athletic development and youth mental well-being.

Taylor Warren, Source Endurance

Taylor Warren, BSED, is a USA Cycling Level 1 coach with over a decade of experience, working with athletes from first-time racers to UCI professionals. He raced professionally on the road with Colorado's 303 Project after earning his Exercise Science degree (Sports Medicine focus) from Colorado State University, where he competed as a Category-1 racer on both road and track. Splitting his time between Boise, Idaho, and Valencia, Spain, Taylor blends evidence-based performance science with real racing experience to help athletes balance training, life, and long-term enjoyment of the sport.

Randall Warren

Randy has been a cycling coach since 1987 and USA Cycling Level 1 coach since 2005, helping hundreds of athletes meet their cycling goals. Domestic and International camps are also an integral part of Warren Cycling LLC, including experiences in Italy, Spain, Belgium, as well as various domestic locations for road, gravel, and mountain bike.

As a collegiate cycling coach for 13 years, Randy is well versed in the importance of team dynamics in cycling. Organizationally, Randy served many years in collegiate cycling governance, including President of Collegiate Cycling and Chairman of the Board of Trustees as well as running the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference.

Randy has coached an Olympian, 2 world championship medalists, a Pan Am gold medalist and 20 National Champions.

A 4-time masters national champion himself, Randy continues to race at a national and international level, recently winning 4 stages and finishing 1^st overall at the 2025 International Giro d’Sardinia (Italy). 

Randy believes in focusing on an athlete's goals and then helping to maximize potential within the context of life demands to achieve best possible outcomes. With a master’s degree in education, counseling and guidance, Randy understands how to work with athletes in the context of their total life to achieve athletic and life success.

Dr. Stephen Seiler

Dr. Stephen Seiler (Ph.D., FACSM) is a world-renowned exercise physiologist, researcher, and professor whose groundbreaking work on training intensity distribution fundamentally reshaped modern endurance sports training. Widely recognized as the "godfather" of the polarized training concept, Dr. Seiler has spent over three decades decoding how the human body adapts to cardiovascular stress, bridging the gap between rigorous laboratory data and the practical world of elite and recreational athletes.

Mike Norton, MSN Cycling

Mike Norton (MS, CSCS, EP-C) is a former professional road cyclist, exercise physiologist, and elite sports biomechanics specialist who serves as the Founder and President of MSN Pro Coaching. With over 30 years of competitive cycling experience and over two decades as a high-performance coach, Norton bridges elite real-world racing with data-driven laboratory science to optimize performance across cycling, running, and triathlon disciplines.

Mark Ernsting, Gibli

Mark Ernsting is the founder and CEO of GiBLI. GiBLI is a leader in real-time aerodynamics for cyclists and triathletes to know their coefficient of drag (CdA). Mark is a former Canadian National Track Cycling Champion, owner of a Men’s UCI Continental Team, Certified UCI Rider Agent, and co-owner of M1 Sports Management.

Jim Miller, USA Cycling

Jim Miller is the Chief of Sport Performance at USA Cycling and the most decorated athletic director and cycling coach in United States history. Having guided American athletes through multiple Olympic cycles, his institutional leadership has resulted in well over a dozen Olympic medals and dozens of world titles across road, track, mountain bike, and BMX disciplinesTanner Putt, USA Cycling.

Mike Durner, USA Cycling

Mike Durner is an elite exercise physiologist, endurance coach, and combat veteran who serves as the National Team Pathways Coach for Para-Cycling Road & Track at USA Cycling. With nearly two decades of high-performance coaching expertise, Durner is highly regarded for his extensive work developing talent within the U.S. Paralympic pipelines alongside leading his independent endurance firm, Durner Performance.

Craig Griffin, USA Cycling

Craig Griffin is a legendary endurance track and para-cycling specialist who serves as the Senior Director of Track Cycling at USA Cycling. With over 35 years of elite international coaching experience, Griffin is an eight-time Olympic coach who has directed highly successful national track and para-cycling programs across the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Paul Manning, MBE, USA Cycling

Paul Manning, MBE, is a decorated Olympic champion, world-class sports strategist, and elite track technician who serves as the Women’s Track Endurance Coach for USA Cycling. Appointed to the role in April 2025 to succeed the retiring Gary Sutton, Manning brings an unparalleled championship pedigree across multiple generations of Olympic talent. His primary objective is to safeguard and build upon Team USA's gold-medal track endurance framework as they race toward the LA 2028 Olympic Games.

Robert Mayfield, USA Cycling

Robert Mayfield is an elite track cycling coach, administrator, and high-performance specialist who serves as the Track Cycling Programs Manager for USA Cycling. Operating at the heart of America's track cycling resurgence, Mayfield directly manages the domestic race pathways and development pipelines that connect local weeknight velodrome racing to elite National Championships.

Jono Hailstone, USA Cycling

Jono Hailstone is a seasoned high-performance cycling coach and sports scientist who serves as the Men's Track Endurance Coach for USA Cycling. Originating from New Zealand, Hailstone is highly regarded for his technical acumen and structured development pathways, having successfully guided elite national track programs across three different continents.