Youth Team - Cross Country

Coach Will ran for Appalachian State University as a member of both their cross country and track & field teams, specializing primarily in middle-distance events. After a decade of competitive training experience, Coach Will began his coaching journey in the Fall of 2023 with the Atlanta Track Club. He aims to not only instill a competitive spirit in his athletes, but also a passion for running that lasts lifelong. Coach Will also ran 4:14 in high school, which is still the school record at Parkview High School in Lilburn, GA.

Coach Brown is a graduate of Villanova University, where he was an All-American and National Champion in the DMR (400) and captain of the track team while specializing in the 400-meter hurdles. He moved to Atlanta in 2005 to train at Georgia Tech and continue his post-collegiate career. Coach Brown has made several appearances at the USATF National Championships with a few U.S. top 15 rankings in the 400 hurdles. On top of Coach Brown's many personal accomplishments, he has 20+ years of track & field coaching at the youth, high school, and collegiate levels. When he is not coaching he is working as the President of Dream Scouting Network which assists high school student-athletes through the recruiting process. Outside of the running world, he is married and has four kids. He can be found on a track coaching or on a soccer field cheering for his kids.

Coach Ali is an experienced coach and passionate runner with a strong background in both athletics and education. A graduate of Bates College and Emory University she has been a recreational runner since 2003 and is a Boston Marathon qualifier.

With over 20 years of coaching experience, Coach Ali has been guiding youth runners since 2004 in different capacities including Kilometer Kids site leader and Youth Team assistant cross country coach. Dedicated to helping young athletes achieve their best, she combines a love for running with a commitment to fostering growth and development in the sport.

Hannah Wilde grew up in Georgia and ran on the high school cross country team at McIntosh in Peachtree City. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2021 where she mostly ran for leisure in between classes. In the years since graduating, she rediscovered her love and passion for running distance on a competitive level. She just completed her first marathon and is planning on doing many more! When she's not training, she enjoys spending time with her husband, friends, and family!

A member of our Atlanta Track Club Elite team, Gabby rejoins the Youth Team coaching staff. With a grandfather who was a quarter-miler, a mother and sister who competed for Cornell University and a father who was a hurdler, Gabby has been running for as long as she can remember, even though soccer was her first love. ("I wasn't that good, but I was fast; I would get the ball and that was that.") She was only 8 years old when she joined her first track team, United Stars Track Club in Philadelphia, and 11 when she set a still-standing 800-meter record for her age group at the Colgate Women's Games of 2:18.80. Running for Friends' Central School in Wynnewood, Gabby set nine individual school records, earned eight state titles and won the 2018 Millrose Games Junior Mile. She also broke AAU Junior Olympics records at 800 and 1,500 meters before heading for the University of Florida, where she became a six-time All-American.