Dena Evans joined runcoach in July, 2008 and has a wide range of experience working with athletes of all stripes- from youth to veteran division competitors, novice to international caliber athletes.
From 1999-2005, she served on the Stanford Track & Field/ Cross Country staff. Dena earned NCAA Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year honors in 2003 as Stanford won the NCAA Division I Championship. She was named Pac-10 Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2003-04, and West Regional Coach of the Year in 2004.
From 2006-08, she worked with the Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative, helping to expand the after school fitness programs for elementary school aged girls to Mountain View, East Menlo Park, and Redwood City. She has also served both the Stanford Center on Ethics and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession as a program coordinator.
Dena graduated from Stanford in 1996.
Kevin O’Brien is a resident of Fall River Mills, California (70 miles east of Redding), where he manages dispatch logistics and fertilizer billing for McArthur Farm Supply. Kevin grew up in Corning, California, before heading to Chico State University, where he graduated in 1999. Kevin has been married for nearly six years to his wife, Georgia (who coincidentally is Coach Dena’s first cousin), and has two young kids. One August day last year at a family gathering, Dena encouraged Kevin to try Focus-N-Fly as he and a few other family members where planning to attempt the Long Beach Half Marathon and he tended to do so much of his running alone in the small town where he resides.
A San Juan Capistrano resident, Steve is an accountant with Zaldivar, Sattar & Associates, LLC. Steve graduated from San Diego State, after a post-high school sojourn in Hawaii following a childhood in Garden Grove and San Jose.
Steve found Focus-N-Fly through his entry process for the Select Staffing Santa Barbara International Marathon. Having run in high school, he returned to running recently and ran his first marathon at the 2009 Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego. While his son and daughter, students at Dana Hills High School, are training for their fall cross country season, Steve will be gearing up for Santa Barbara.
Binoy grew up in Bhilai, India, before coming to the United States in 1990. He spent a year in the Bay Area before moving to Tampa, Florida for several years. When Oracle came calling in 1997, he returned to the Peninsula, where he has remained until now. Binoy joined Focus-N-Fly this spring, with a goal of training for his first marathon this October.