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Dave Lee
Brian O'Neill's Rub Running Club
Entrepreneur by Day, Athlete by Heart. Dave is the Founder of Houston’s very own Brian O’Neill’s Pub Running Club. BON Running Club is a free weekly social running club that meets every Tuesday night at Brian O’Neill’s Pub in Rice Village for a 5k fun run. Founded in the fall of 2008, BON Running Club has quickly become one of the largest running clubs in the city with a total membership of over 1,500 people. What initially started as a club of 25 runners, now impressively draws more than 300 runners each week from all over the Greater Houston area! Dave’s philosophy is to create a lifestyle balanced by fitness and fun and to encourage people of all fitness levels to make running a fun part of their lives. His mission is “to make Houston a stronger, healthier, and... Read the profile >>
Kelley Lloyd-Davidson
FIT Athletic Club
Kelley is the Group Fitness Director for Fit Athletic Club. She has been working in the fitness industry since 1998 both teaching group fitness and personal training. She holds a B.S. in exercise physiology from Texas A&M University as well as a Masters in nutrition from Texas Woman’s University. She is certified with top credentials from NSCA for personal training, AFAA for group fitness, and is a trained Pilates instructor. Kelley is passionate and dedicated to helping people with a desire to improve their lives. Her philosophy as a trainer and nutritionist is that body, mind, and spirit are inseparable, and in order to lead an extraordinary life, all three must be healthy. By helping her clients establish healthy lifestyles, Kelley’s goal is to enable each of her clients to... Read the profile >>
Lindsey Smith
Lindsey is an avid CrossFit athlete with a passion for promoting the health and fitness of those in the Houston community. She won the title of Fifth Fittest Woman in the World in July of 2009 with a fifth place finish at the International CrossFit Games in Aromas, CA. She has been an athlete all of her life and competed as a Division One athlete on the soccer, basketball, and track and field teams. While pursuing a career in industrial engineering and pursuing her master's in that field, she values the importance of mental, spiritual and physical fitness to promote a well-rounded lifestyle. She has over ten years experience in sports performance training and has served the community as a personal trainer for three years. Lindsey has her B.S. in Fitness Mangement from DePaul... Read the profile >>
Maria Merrill
Maria Merrill is the owner and founder of Yoga Ananda Yoga Studio, an affiliated Baptiste Power Vinyasa Studio and currently the only one in Houston. She is a certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa yoga teacher and has been teaching this style of yoga since 2005. This past year she has assisted Baron at his Level 1 Teacher Training Bootcamps in Hawaii and the Catskills and looks forward to growing the Baptiste community in Houston. Believing that yoga studios can be a "third space" where students can create community and feel at home as they create their own transformation through the practice of yoga, Maria is honored to be part of the Lululemon Ambassador team as the Lulu culture also offers yogis, dancers, runners and all "students of life" a place to create friendships, have new experiences... Read the profile >>
Mauricio Campos & Betty L
Mauricio Campos was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2001, he established the Brazilian Arts Foundation to share his love of Brazilian culture and the unique energy of its traditions, dances, and music. He has led classes and workshops in Capoeira, music, and dance all around the Houston area including Houston Community College, Rice University, St. John's School, Texas A&M Prairie View, Texas A&M in Galveston, and the University of Houston. Betty is from Brazil and has been in the US for the past 11 years. She has always been involved in many aspects of excercising or dancing, including ballet, jazz, aerobics training, and of course, the contagious Brazilian samba. She has been part of many carnaval parades in her hometown fo Salvador, Bahia and grew up dancing samba. Betty currently... Read the profile >>
Mike Lopez
Mike has been a personal trainer in Houston for almost 10 years after serving 4 years in the army. He fell in love with training after having back surgery, when he realized himself that training does not have to be hard and heavy to produce results. Mike’s fitness programs consist of strength conditioning, post rehabilitation, boot camps, boxing and kickboxing. He works with clients one on one as well as in groups. Mike evaluates each of his diverse clients and creates the most efficient workout possible on an individual basis. He enjoys bringing creativity into his training and involves tools and equipment other than machines, such as, stability balls, bands, medicine balls, agility equipment and basic body weight. Currently, he trains in and around the Houston (River Oaks and... Read the profile >>
Nao Kusuzaki
Houston Ballet
Nao is currently a Soloist with the Houston Ballet. She was born in Ehime, Japan. she grew up in Japan, Washington D.C., and Boston. In Japan, Nao trained at the Yatsuzuka Ballet. In the United States she trained with Mary Day and Patricia Berrend at the Washington School of Ballet and with Tatiana Legat, Laura Young, and Sydney Leonard at the Boston Ballet School. Nao danced professionally with Boston Ballet for five seasons. With Houston Ballet, she has been featured as Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Stanton Welch's Falling, TuTu, Nosotros, Swan Lake (Russian Princess), and Madame Butterfly (Suzuki). Other repertoire includes Petite Mort (Kylian), Five Tangos (Van Manan), 'Pryaer' in Coppelia (Stevenson), and In the Middle Somewhat elevated (Forsythe) This... Read the profile >>
Wayne Davis
Wayne Davis is a former NCAA All-American athlete, conference champion and record holder in the long jump, and a former member of the USA Track & Field and Outlaw Track Club. He qualified for the Olympic trials in 1996, 2000 and 2004. Wayne was introduced to Pilates after pulling his hamstring in the 2000 Olympic trials, which led to therapy that incorporated Pilates exercises. He quickly recognized not only the therapeutic benefit it offered for his injury, but the beneficial impact it had on his training, improving both his speed and his strength. He was hooked. In 2002, Wayne became a certified Pilates instructor and has been sharing its benefits with clients ever since. He is also a Certified Flexibility Therapist trained by the Stretch to Win Institute. Prior to opening... Read the profile >>