Brock Kreitzburg
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 22, 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Toledo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 209 lb (95 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Push Athlete | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | USA Bobsled (2002–2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brock Kreitzburg (born February 16, 1976) was an American bobsledder who competed from 2001 to 2008.
A graduate from the University of Toledo and a native of Akron, Ohio,[1] Kreitzburg was in the US Bobsled program from 2001 to 2008.
In 2003, Kreitzburg graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He became a Christian after his father had died from cancer 20 years earlier which caused "an emptiness" that he tried to fill "with so many different things in high school and even the beginning of college." It left Kreitzburg a void he "...was trying to fill...".
Career
Kreitzburg when was selected to the 2006 US Olympic Team he was able to dispel the disappointment of being dropped from his ride at the 2005 World Championship by his then partner Steve Holcomb of the USA 2 bobsled.The 2005–06 season saw Brock become one of the most constituent pushers on the World Cup scene.
With success at hand, USA 1 bobsled driver Todd Hays invited Kreitzburg's to join his team and he then graduated from the #2 team to the #1 team for the lead up to, and during, the Torino Games.
At the 2006 Games, he appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com as an athlete correspondent and was a frequent on-air personality on NBC with multiple appearances on the Today Show and appeared on The Tonight Show in a bit with 3 teammates and Tom Green.[citation needed] Kreitzburg was a member of the Home Depot Olympic Job Opportunity Program and worked with Home Depot since 2002 until they ended the program & their sponsorship of the US Olympic Team in March 2009. Following the Games, Kreitzburg was an occasional host of local programming for the NBC affiliate in Cleveland.
The 2006–07 season, saw a changing of the guard with USA 1 and the sled was now driven by former USA 2 teammate Steve Holcomb. The season gave Kreitzburg as Holcomb's pushman the greatest success collectively they had ever seen and the 2 of them won the World Cup 2-man championship. Additionally, the 4-man team that Brock was a member of finished 2nd overall. The 2 & 4 man teams collected eight medals during the season.
The 2007–08 season saw Kreitzburg focus much of his time towards being a member of the 4-man team and he was able to pick up another 2 Gold and 2 Silvers during the season.
During the 2007–08 off season, Kreitzburg participated in the NASCAR Nationwide Series as a member of Stanton Barrett's pit crew.
Kreitzburg took the 2008–09 season off to have surgery. Kreitzburg was able to resume his career after these surgeries and was named a member of the 2009–10 US National Bobsled Team.
Kreitzburg did not qualify for the US team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in wake of his two hip surgeries in the 17 months leading up to the 2010 Games.
World championship biography
Competed for the United States in Six World Championships
USA 1: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
USA 2: 2003–04, 2004–05
USA 3: 2002–03
Collegiate biography
Kreitzburg graduated from the University of Toledo. He competed in track and field in the decathlon and football as a wide receiver. Kreitzburg earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2003.
Accomplishments and notes
2008–09 Did not compete due to injury
2007–08 Participated in the NASCAR Nationwide Series as a member of Stanton Barrett's pit crew
2006–07 Overall Two Man Team World Cup Champion (driver Steve Holcomb)
2006–07 Overall Four Man Team World Cup Runner-Up (driver Steve Holcomb)
2006 Finished Seventh Overall with USA 1 (driver Todd Hays) Four Man Team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
2006 Named to the US Olympic Team – USA 1 Bobsled
Jan 1, 2006 Appeared in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, CA
2001 Became a member of the USA Bobsled Team
1999 Attended mini-camp for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1998–99 All-Conference Wide Receiver at the University of Toledo
Media appearances
February 2009 Quoted nationally in USA Today, Wall Street Journal & the AP regarding Home Depot's elimination of the Olympic Job Opportunity Program that benefitted the rank and file US Olympic athletes ability to live, work and train for their sport via Home Depot's US Olympic Committee sponsorship
Summer 2006 WKYC Cleveland Morning Show – Guest Host (multiple occasions)
February 20, 2006 NBC Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Skit with Tom Green)
February 13, 2006 Home Depot Satellite Media Tour – Televised throughout the United States
February 2006 Appeared on the Today Show as an Athlete Correspondent
February 2006 Athlete Correspondent for the Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com
Education
2021 University of Illinois, Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
2003 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Masters of Divinity (M.Div.)
1998 University of Toledo, B.A. Elementary Education