Dan Kaplan

Dan Kaplan, commonly known as "dkap," has coached Cross Country and Track & Field at Willamette University and McKay High School in Oregon. His coaching and competitive background includes a mixture of sprint and distance events. Prior to embarking on a coaching career, he spent two years as president of the OSU Track Club, helping pave the way for the reinstatement of the NCAA Division I program. Despite being known primarily as a distance coach, Kaplan cites sprint coaches such as Loren Seagrave and Charlie Francis as some of his biggest sources of inspiration. He is also one of the pioneers of large running websites, building Run-Down.com (U.S. News & World Report's Best of the Web: Fitness for 2000) in the late 90's, and is currently a web developer focusing on running-related projects.

"Kaplan writes with an engaging style so that the reader is left experiencing the 'rush' when it all goes right and the anguish when it doesn't." - Russ Ebbets, Track Coach magazine (Track & Field News / USATF), Winter 2012 Issue #198