Our Coaches
Our team is made up of decorated athletes and coaches with championship experience from the state to national level.
Coach & Founder
Jacob Thomson
Jacob is a 12x Kentucky State Champion. He is a 3x SEC Champion & 3x All-American at the University of Kentucky. Currently, Jacob resides in Flagstaff, AZ where he runs professionally for Under Armour and coaches. Jacob is a 2x Olympic Trials competitor at 10k & Marathon. He was the 2022 US Marathon runner up and the 2023 US Half Marathon Champion.
He has PRs of 3:57 Mile, 7:50 3k, 13:28 5k, 27:57 10k, 2:11 Marathon.
Coach & Co-Founder
Thomas Cave
Thomas Cave was a 3x State Champion in high school. He went on to run at the University of Louisville and Bellarmine University. After college, Thomas ran his debut marathon in 2:33 at CIM in Sacramento, Ca.
Thomas has been coaching for 8 years and has Thomson Training athletes win over 60 State Championships. In 2023, he joined Trinity HS’s staff and the team went on to win the 3A Boys State Championship. In 2022, they placed 11th, making the 2023 season the largest turnaround in Kentucky history. In the 2025 season, his team has 10 runners sub 16:00 and 23 runners sub 17:00.
Assistant Coach
Chase Broughton
Chase went to Crawford County High School in Marengo, IN. After high school he attended the University of Southern Indiana where he began his career as a walk-on and finished as a 5x DII All-American.
Chase began his coaching career at his alma mater where he assisted in coaching 2 national qualifying teams and 2 DII individual All-Americans. After coaching at USI Chase became the Men’s Head Coach at Bellarmine University where he coached 3 individual conference champions and 12 school records in the distance events on the track. His athletes also make up 15 of the top 20 all-time performances in Bellarmine University history on the cross country course over 8,000m.
He has PRs of 4:06 Mile, 8:05 3k, 14:14 5k.
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