The above video shows highlights from previous Complete Speed & Power Summits!

The Complete Speed & Power Summit is 2 days of athlete building and training education put together from the top speed and power development coaches around.

This year, on June 21-22, Athletes Acceleration is going to be at the University of Rhode Island at their performance complex in Kingston, Rhode Island for the Complete Speed & Power Summit.

We want each coach to be in the state of being deeply engaged and involved, so we are going to limit the presenters and limit the amount of attendees. Now each presenter can provide more detailed presentations that is specifically designed for you.

We wanted to put together a complete FOCUSED event for coaches and trainers that work with speed and power athletes. There are too many events that are all over the place and have maybe one or two sessions on speed. The problem is, they don't dive in and get deep into the topics.

Athletes Acceleration grabbed the top coaches in speed and power...the coaches that COACH EVERY DAY (you know what I'm talking about - you see other 'coaches' who speak on tour but haven't coached an actual athlete in years). Besides the in-depth presentations you will get on developing faster and more explosive athletes, we will actually be able to get into performing these topics. Having this event at sports performance facilities allows us to do hands-on sessions. The first half of each day will be the lecture component then the second half of the day will be the hands-on.

With this line-up of in-the-trenches coaches, and seeing how they coach you and take you through their drills & exercises, is going to be an amazing experience.

Since we are using an actual sports performance facility we want to keep the hands-on sessions small so you can participate and ask questions, we have to limit the amount of attendees. 

Register now so you can secure and guarantee your spot!

Limited to only 80 coaches!

Athletes Acceleration

June 21-22

Besides our biased opinion on this being the greatest event for a coach and trainer that works with speed and power athletes, here are some additional reasons to get you excited about coming to the Summit:

*Presenters, dates, times and locations are subject to change

Mike Boyle

Owner MBSC, Strength & Conditioning Legend

Lilly Bernardi

Assistant Director of Sports Performance, Univ. of North Carolina

Scott Leech

Head Strength & Conditioning Coach, University of Rhode Island

Adam Feit

Professor & Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at Springfield College, Owner TF Performance

Gary Schofield

Athletic Director & S&C Coach Strong Rock Christian, Founder NHSSCA

Tony Villani

Founder of XPE Sports

Bobby Smith

Founder of Reach Your Potential Training (RYPT)

Ron McKeefery

Special Assistant to the Head Coach - Univ. of Alabama

The Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa) approved 7 CEUs for certified individuals who successfully complete the Complete Speed & Power Summit.

The National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) approved 1.4 CEUs for certified individuals who successfully complete the Complete Speed & Power Summit.

The National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) approved 1.4 CEUs for certified individuals who successfully complete the Complete Speed & Power Summit.

* Limited to 100 Coaches

* Times, Topics, and Coaches Subject To Change

June 21st - 22nd

University of Rhode Island (URI)
Kingston, Rhode Island

Limited to 80 coaches. Register Today!

A full refund is available up to 30 days prior to the event. Within the 30 day period you will be able to transfer your registration spot to another coach by contacting us.

Reminder: presenters, topics, dates, times and location are subject to change

Complete Speed & Power Summit Coach Bios

Owner, Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning

Founder, Certified Functional Strength Coach

Michael Boyle is one of the foremost experts in the fields of Strength and Conditioning, Functional Training and general fitness. He currently spends his time lecturing, teaching, training and writing. In 1996 Michael co founded Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, one of the first for-profit strength and conditioning companies in the world. Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning exists for one reason: to provide performance enhancement training for athletes of all levels. Athletes trained range from junior high school students to All Stars in almost every major professional sport.

Prior to Co- founding Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, Michael served as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Boston University for 15 years, also for the past 25 years he been the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Men’s Ice Hockey at Boston University. Mike also was the Boston Red Sox strength and conditioning coach in 2013 that won the World Series. In addition to his duties at Boston University and the Red Sox, from 1991-1999 Boyle served as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. Michael was also the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the 1998 US Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team, Gold Medalists in Nagano and 2014 Silver medalists in Sochi, and served as a consultant in the development of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Michael has been a featured speaker at numerous strength and conditioning and athletic training clinics across the world and has produced 20 instructional videos in the area of strength and conditioning available through M-F Athletic. Michael has also lectured all over the world. In addition, Michael published Functional Training for Sports for Human Kinetics Publishers. Mike and his wife Cindy have 2 children, Michaela and Mark and reside in Reading.

University of Alabama - Special Assistant to the Head Coach and Sports Performance Coach

Previous – University of Washington - Head Strength & Conditioning Coach

Ron McKeefery joined head coach Kalen DeBoer's 2022 UW staff as the football program's head strength & conditioning coach, moving from Fresno State along with DeBoer. He was hired as the Bulldogs' assistant athletic director for sports performance prior to the 2020-21 school year.
 
"Coach Mac is among the best in business when it comes to strength and conditioning, and player development," DeBoer said. "He is an outside-the-box thinker who excels in balancing foundational principles with new, cutting-edge ideas. Ron's ability and relentless pursuit in building an elite 'team' culture is second to none, and I'm looking forward to seeing the immediate impact he'll have at UW, building our team physically and mentally."
 
A former all-conference defensive back at Ottawa (Kan.) University, McKeefery has found success at each stop during his career, which has included positions with the Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cincinnati Bengals at the professional level; and at the collegiate level with South Florida, Tennessee and Eastern Michigan, where he first worked with DeBoer.
 
McKeefery has also worked with United States Special Forces, Team USA Football and the Chinese Olympic Committee, among others. Additionally, he has trained more than 100 players who have gone on to the NFL, and has mentored well over 100 individuals who have gone on to careers as collegiate or pro strength & conditioning coaches, including three who have won Major League Baseball or NBA championships, and two who have won national strength coach of the year for college football.
 
Internationally recognized as a leader in the area of sports development, McKeefery has twice been named Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year – first by the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Society (2008 Under Armour Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year), and also by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (2016 Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year). In 2020, Coach McKeefery was
awarded the International Coach of the Year by S&C Education, based in the United Kingdom.

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach - University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

2025 NSCA Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year

Lilly Bernardi is in her second year as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Hofstra University. Bernardi is responsible for the design and implementation of programming for women’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, track and field, cross country, men’s golf, and baseball. Bernardi is also the coordinator of the Hofstra Strength and Conditioning Internship Program.

Bernardi returns to Hofstra after working as the volunteer assistant strength & conditioning coach for the Spring 2021 season. She worked directly with the cross country, track & field, and men’s golf programs at Hofstra, and she assisted with strength and conditioning programing for all 17 varsity programs. She was also a graduate assistant for the Hofstra strength & conditioning program in the Fall 2020. Bernardi graduated from Hofstra in December 2021 with her master’s degree in sports science, with a concentration in strength and conditioning.

Most recently, Bernardi was on the Fordham athletics staff as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for the 2021-22 year. At Fordham, she was responsible for the design and implementation of all aspects of strength and conditioning programing for the baseball, track & field, cross country, women’s rowing, men’s squash, and men’s golf programs.

Bernardi graduated Cum Laude from The College of New Jersey in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science. She was a four-year member of the TCNJ women’s lacrosse team from 2016-2020, where she was a three-year starter for the Lions and was a key member of two Final Four teams.

Head Strength & Conditioning Coach - University of Rhode Island 

Scott Leech enters his sixth year at Rhode Island. In July of 2021, he was promoted to head strength and conditioning coach after initially joining the department as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in February of 2020.

With the Rams, Leech oversees football, women’s tennis and women’s track & field in addition to overseeing all areas of the strength & conditioning for the department. When he joined the staff, he was responsible for designing and implementing training programs for the baseball, volleyball, women's soccer and women's track & field teams.

Leech came to Rhode Island from Merrimack College, where he was an assistant strength and conditioning coach from August of 2015 through February of 2020. There he worked with the baseball, men’s basketball, football, women’s lacrosse and women's track programs. He assisted in program implementation for 24 Division I teams while also coordinate and overseeing the undergraduate internship program for the Strength and Conditioning department.

Before his time at Merrimack, Leech was a graduate assistant in strength and conditioning at Springfield College. Leech also interned with the Strength and Conditioning departments at both Missouri and Brown. He is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, is a level 2 practitioner in Reflexive Performance Reset and is CPR/AED/First Aid certified by the American Red Cross.

Leech earned his bachelor's degree in Applied Exercise Science: Sport Performance from Springfield College in 2013. He added a master's degree in Exercise Science and Sports Studies from Springfield College in 2015 and began work on a master's degree in Data Science from Merrimack in 2019.

A football player at Springfield College, Leech was a team captain as a senior. He earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors and was a member of the National Football Foundation Honor Society. 

Founder of XPE Sports and the SHREDmill 

Tony Villani is a sports performance coach that founded XPE Sports in 2002, a premier training facility specializing in speed and agility development for athletes. Prior to XPE Sports, he spent 3 years with Cris Carter at his FAST Program and graduated with a Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology from George Washington University.  

Notable clients include Hall of Famers Cris Carter, Randy Moss, and Darrelle Revis, NFL All Decade Players Jamal Lewis, Hines Ward, Cam Jordan, Maurkice Pouncey, Eric Berry, and Travis Kelce, along with other Super Stars like Anquan Boldin, Mark Ingram, Stephon Gilmore, Lavonte David, Denzel Ward, and also former players to NFL Head Coaches Sean McVay and Jerod Mayo. 

In 2011, Villani invented the SHREDmill, a patented and trademarked self-powered
treadmill designed to enhance sprint mechanics and transfering power to speed inside the small confines of any weight room. The SHREDmill has become a staple in hundreds of training facilities and is utilized by athletes and coaches nationwide. 

Currently Football Programs such as Penn State, Clemson, Auburn, Missouri, BYU, and University of South Carolina Track and Field utilize the SHREDmill.  Many of the top players Tony Villani had trained also personally bought units for their homes to continue their training year round. The SHREDmill has also helped produce the majority of 4.30 and under 40 times at the NFL Combine the last 10 years along with 8 of the 10 fastest DBs ever. 

Currently spending time in both Fort Lauderdale and Naples, Florida, Tony Villani
continues to innovate in the field of sports performance, blending scientific principles with practical application to help athletes achieve their peak potential.  He has developed two Mobile Applications that help coaches apply his principles while using the SHREDmill or using his trademarked XPE Game Speed Program.  

His next chapter in life he will continue to try to help coaches and athletes alike as he transitions a lot more of his time to Naples with his family. 

Athletic Director and Strength & Conditioning Coach at Strong Rock Christian School

NSCA National Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year

Founder of National High School Strength Coaches Association (NHSSCA)

Gary Schofield, Jr. MAT, CSCS*D, RSCC*E, currently serves as the Athletic Director and an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Strong Rock Christian School (Locust Grove, GA). Coach Schofield has served as a certified athletic trainer through the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and a certified strength and conditioning specialist with distinction via the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) for over 29 years.

Before starting at Strong Rock Christian School, Schofield served as the Director of Youth and High School Development for PLAE, a global performance brand, where he was able to travel the country and connect with coaches and administrators by building strategic educational platforms and creating unique customer experiences. Prior to PLAE, Schofield was the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Norcross, Ga for 20 years,
where his program earned the Strength of America Award for six consecutive years for the highest standards of safety and success for young athletes.

In 2012, he was awarded the National High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year. He has served as the Georgia State Director and the Southeast Regional Coordinator for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

With a background in athletic training and strength & conditioning, Schofield has experience working with professional and amateur athletes in numerous organizations, including the National Basketball Association, Arena Football League, East Coast Hockey League, World Championship Wrestling, North American Soccer League, USA Track & Field Indoor Championships and the Georgia State Olympic Development Program.

In 2016, Schofield co-founded the National High School Strength Coaches Association (NHSSCA) to educate, equip and empower high school coaches to make a positive impact in the lives of students. In 2019, Schofield became a member of the Marietta College Athletic Training Advisory Board (ATAB) for his alma matter and continues to serve as an adjunct instructor for Marietta College’s Masters in Athletic Training Program. Coach Schofield also serves as a guest lecturer for Setanta College (Ireland).

After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in sports medicine, with an emphasis on athletic training, from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, He continued his education with the graduate program in athletic training at Georgia State University and completed the Master of Arts in Teaching at the University of North Georgia.

A popular speaker, Schofield has presented multiple times at state, regional, national and international clinics and conferences. He is a proud father of his son Brett and daughter Savannah and honored to be married to his wife Amanda for the past 23 years. 

Professor & Strength & Conditioning Coordinator at Springfield College

Owner TF Performance

Adam Feit brings more than 15 years of coaching and consulting experience with a multitude of youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional athletic teams, including the Buffalo Bills, Calgary Flames, Brooklyn Nets, and USA Olympic teams. Feit also has served as a collegiate and professional strength and conditioning coach and nutrition coordinator for the NFL's Carolina Panthers, Eastern Michigan University, University of Louisville, and The Citadel. Prior to returning to Springfield College, Feit worked as the head strength and sport psychology coach for Precision Nutrition, the largest nutrition coaching, certification, and software company in the world.

Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Education (Concentration in Sport and Exercise Psychology), Springfield College, Springfield, Mass., 2020

Master of Science in Exercise Science and Health Promotion (Concentration in Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention), California University of Pennsylvania, California, Penn., 2009

Bachelor of Science in Applied Exercise Science, Springfield College, Springfield, Mass., 2006

Founder of Reach Your Potential Training (RYPT)

Bobby Smith was a 3-sport stand-out athlete at Hopatcong High School. In football, he was an All-Conference running back and Top 100 in NJ. In basketball he scored over 1000 career points. And in track and field, he was the top javelin thrower in the country his senior year, winning the Meet of Champs, the Golden West, and High School Nationals.

Although highly recruited to throw the javelin in college, his love for football and the javelin lead him to Monmouth University, where he was able to compete for both teams. In college, Bobby experienced 4 major injuries / surgeries (ACL reconstruction, Meniscectomy, Tommy John surgery, and ankle reconstruction). But with hard work, dedication, and a positive attitude, he came back strong from each injury. He was the captain of the football team and the track and field team his junior and senior years, All-NEC conference running back his senior year, NCAA Division I Track and Field Men’s Field Athlete of the Year Mid-Atlantic District 2006, Javelin – 5th place Division I NCAA championships 2005, Javelin – NCAA Division I All-American 2005.

After college he committed his training to the javelin and moved to California to train with one of the top javelin coaches in the country. During his time in California, he worked part time at Velocity Sports Performance in Irvine where he was able to work under some of the top trainers in the business. In 2008 he won the USA Olympic Trials in Eugene, OR with a personal best throw of 76.06M. Unfortunately, due to USATF Olympic qualification rules, he was just shy of the Olympic “A” standard distance and was not able to compete in the Beijing Olympics. But this didn’t stop him from continuing his Olympic quest. He moved to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Ca. and had the good fortune to work with some of the best trainers, sports medicine personnel, coaches, and support staff in the industry.

In 2010 he moved back to NJ to continue his training and married his longtime girlfriend, Sharon Wentworth. Sharon is the owner of Elite Sports Physical Therapy, the premier sports medicine facility for competitive athletes. In May of 2011, Bobby and Sharon decided to open their own sports performance facility. Elite Sports Performance Center was born.

Education:

M.S. Performance Enhancement & Injury Prevention (California University of Pennsylvania 2018)

B.S. Special Education with Health Studies Minor (Monmouth University 2006)

Certifications:

National Strength and Conditioning Association –
– Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with Distinction (CSCS*D)
– Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach with Distinction (RSCC*D)

National Sports Performance Association
– Master Sports Performance Coach (MSPC)

National Academy of Sport Medicine
– Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES)

Precision Nutrition Certified Nutrition Coach – (PN Level 1)
United States Weight Lifting – (USAW-1)
United States of America Track and Field Level 1 Certification 

June 21st - 22nd

University of Rhode Island (URI)
Kingston, Rhode Island

Limited to 80 coaches. Register Today!

A full refund is available up to 30 days prior to the event. Within the 30 day period you will be able to transfer your registration spot to another coach by contacting us.

Reminder: presenters, topics, dates, times and location are subject to change

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