Laurel Green, Associate Coach
Specialties: Road Racing, Junior and
Elite Development, Working riders balancing training,
racing and family
Home:
Graton, CA (North Bay Area)
Client levels
accepted:
Individual, SemiCustom, Custom, Consultation.
Available to take on all levels of athletes both racing and non-racing
Available for seminars, camps, clinics, and team direction on a
contractual basis.

Laurel
Green brings 15 years of cycling experience to Wenzel Coaching
including nine years of coaching. A Level 2 Certified USA Cycling
Coach, Laurel also approaches coaching from an educated point of view
with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of
California at Davis, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her experience as a school teacher
completes her well rounded background of education and experience with
the gift of teaching.
Laurel’s
experience beyond cycling is also varied. From 1991-1994 she was an
assistant coach for the University of Wisconsin Women’s Rowing
program. From there, she taught Spinning Classes, worked as a Personal
Trainer and did one-on-one coaching for teenage athletes. During this
time she also did Team Building Workshops for both Men’s and Women’s
Rowing Teams. From 1999-2002 she helped coach the LaFollette High
School Girls’ swim team to the Wisconsin State Championships.
Laurel
loves the tactics of bike racing, and the technique involved. Having
done over 300 bike races in her career, she has a knack for teaching
bike handling skills ‘at speed.’ “There’s nothing more exciting than
to do drills at speed on the wheel of someone who I’ve just taught how
to do something, and trust their wheel!” she says. Her teaching
experience with all ages of young people makes her an asset for the
junior racer.
Though
Laurel enjoys the day to day creation and coaching of training
programs, she especially enjoys the hands on work of teaching bike
handling skills to anyone who rides a bike. “Triathletes, in
particular, always seem grateful for the bike handlings skills they’ve
learned, as they ride away. They are a great group to work with.
Small changes in their cycling technique can make big changes in their
performance.”
As a
category 2 racer who follows the US National Racing Calendar circuit,
Laurel is enthusiastic about reaching her potential as an athlete, and
she shares this same enthusiasm with her clients. She
specializes in criterium racing, and loves time trials, and stage
racing. Laurel has a hopeful, friendly, encouraging, manner, and knows
how to push her athletes where they need it. She consistently
sees where more can be done for one of her athletes to move forward
with their development, and she has a way of getting them to do the
extra things, without overwhelming them.
Her
pre-cycling athletic background consists of Amateur Roller Speed
Skating, High School Basketball, Volleyball, Softball, Soccer, and
Women’s Rowing at UC-Davis. She has been road racing since 1994, and
racing National Racing Calendar Circuit for 8 years. She currently
rides for Dolce Vita Cycling, based in Mill Valley, CA. In her spare
time she enjoys studying alternative medicine, teaching peer
counseling and teaching bike safety clinics to elementary school
students.
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"Laurel has such a deep pool of knowledge and
experience about women's racing, it's wonderful to train and race with
her and to be able to learn from her. As a coach, she's
super-responsive, flexible and encouraging. I've really been able to
take my racing to a new level since I started working with her.
Thanks!" ~Karla K
karla