COMPANY PROFILE CTG Development is owned and operated as a sole proprietorship by Cameron Gary

Cameron Gary

COMPANY PROFILE
CTG Development is owned and operated as a sole proprietorship by Cameron Gary and is comprised of two distinct, yet related entities; JumpMasters and East County Budokai. JumpMasters is devoted to athletic speed/power development. East County Budokai is a Japanese-based martial arts and self-defense school located in the Spring Valley area of San Diego County. Cameron is the Director of CTG Development; hence he is the Chief Consultant/Trainer for JumpMasters as well as the Chief Instructor for the East County Budokai.

COACHING
Cameron began his athletic coaching career at Helix High in the early 1980s, and returned there in 2004-2006. During his Helix years, Cameron coached several school record holders, conference and section champions; including, but not limited to Willie Williams, Paul Agnew, Frankie Green, Evon Willingham and Thoraya Maronesy. Willie was the 1980 California State Games Champion and went on to be a standout jumper for Long Beach State University. Evon broke the school triple jump record and won the CIF section championship. Frankie was the section runner-up, but was a medallist in the California State Meet and the National Junior Olympics with a best of 49’ 4”(w). Cameron also guided Frankie as he won the California State JUCO championship (50’ 8”) at San Diego Mesa College the following year. Frankie went on to compete for the University of Oklahoma. Thoraya won multiple conference championships, the San Diego section championship and qualified for the California State Meet three times.

In the interim, Cameron coached at the Division-I collegiate level at San Diego State University. During that time, Cameron coached the women horizontal jumpers. Among the standout jumpers Cameron coached was (then) school record holder (41’ 9.75”) and National Championship qualifier Gaylen Ames.

Cameron currently coaches the jumps and the short sprints at Monte Vista High School in Spring Valley. Cameron took over a very mediocre jump program and within the space of one year converted it into the strongest component of the track program. In 2006 (prior to Cameron’s arrival), Monte Vista had no conference medallists or CIF qualifiers. In 2007, Monte Vista had two conference champions and five CIF qualifiers. One athlete (Rachel Kirchhofer) was the freshman long jump champion of the County (with a mark that placed her among the ten best freshman in the state). Another (Dale Thomas) was the Grossmont Conference long jump champion and just missed qualifying for the State Meet by two inches. It should be noted that he improved by four feet in one year! In 2008, triple jumper Hailey Mayer was the CIF (small schools) section champion.

Cameron is involved with coaching education and consulting on a private basis. In 2007, Cameron began teaching coaching education clinics for the (then) Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (now called “LA 84”). This is a foundation that is sponsored by the proceeds generated from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. The foundation sponsors widely attended coaching education clinics in the greater Los Angeles, Inland Empire and San Diego metropolitan areas. Beginning in 2008, Cameron was named as the horizontal jump Event Coordinator for the LA84 foundation. Cameron has also written technique and training articles for Athletes Acceleration, a nationally recognized speed-training forum. Cameron is certified as a coach via USATF (Level Two - Jumps).

Cameron counts among his endorsers the following; Head SDSU Coach and former All-American, Rhan Sheffield, Cal State San Marcos Assistant Coach and former All-American, Wes Williams, 1976 Olympic Long Jump Champion and San Diego Mesa College Coach Arnie Robinson, former LA84 jump coordinator and nationally recognized coach John Tansley, and others.

COMPETITIVE

Cameron competed as a jumper at Helix High School in La Mesa, CA. After posting a relatively mediocre mark of 16’10.5” in the Long Jump as a freshman, Cameron improved nearly seven feet to post a best of 23’ 4.5” as a senior in 1978. At that time, this mark was the Grossmont Conference Championship Meet Record (the previous record had stood for 15 years). It is also the Helix High track stadium record. This stadium record has yet to be broken.

Cameron went on to be a nationally ranked triple jumper at San Diego State University. Cameron won the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championship in 1983 with a school record jump of 53’2.5”. Cameron also qualified and competed in the NCAA National Championships, The U.S. National Championships and the 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials. Cameron was ranked as one of the top triple jumpers in the country when suffered a severe ankle injury due to a freak accident two months before the Olympic Trials.

Cameron began working full-time in law enforcement in 1985, and was a regular competitor in the California Police Olympics (Now the Western States Police & Fire Games), as well as the World Police and Fire Games for several years. Cameron was undefeated in both venues, and still holds the Western States Police & Fire Games record in the Triple Jump (from 1989).

EDUCATION
Cameron holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Redlands as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from SDSU.

Throughout your life advance daily,
becoming more skillful than yesterday,
more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

The Hagakure (Book of the Samurai)