William Meyer

Performance Director | Coach | USAW, NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer, SPARQ, COOPER-Biomechanics of Resistance Training bmeyer@catzsports.com

Bill is the Performance Director of CATZ-Austin. Bill began his career with The University of North Texas Track and Field Team where he was an assistant coach in their Strength and Conditioning program. Bill then accepted a position within the MISL as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Dallas Sidekicks. While working with Bill, the Sidekicks were able to go from a 9-27 record in 2003 to become the 2004 MISL Western Division Champions.

Bill then took his talents to Velocity Sports Performance where he was a Sports Performance Specialist. In this role Bill worked with Athletes ranging from age seven to

professional, to enhance their on field performance. Bill was also responsible for preparing athletes physically and

mentally for College and NFL Combine tests. He

implemented a project that was designed to increase the reflex and reaction time in athletes.

Bill has extensive experience working with athletes at the professional and collegiate level. He has coached athletes from Major League Baseball,The National Football League, Arena Football, Scottish Premier Soccer League and Dallas Harlequins Rugby.

Bill received his BS in Kinesiology and History from the University of North Texas. He is a Certified Personal Trainer, and USA Weightlifting Level I Coach who is SPARQ Certified.

Bill is also a licenced Nutrition Consultant.

Bill can be heard weekly on 1300 The Zone Thursdays at 10:00am as their Fitness Expert.

Omar Vela

Performance Coach | Coach | NSCA-CPT, CSCS, NASM-CPT ovela@catzsports.com

Omar is one of the Sports Performance Coaches here at CATZ-Austin. Ormar graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology.

Omar was then the Squad Leader of the First Ranger

Battalion out of Savannah, Georgia. He fought in three combat deployments to Afghanistan, and two combat deployments in Iraq. While there Omar received the Bronze Star Medal with “V” Device for Valor and the Army Commendation Medal three times.

Omar then became the fitness manager of a local fitness center, where he was a personal trainer responsible for designing and implementing safe and effective exercise

programs.

Omar now brings his talents to CATZ-Austin.

Jody Bell

Marketing Director/Performance Coach | Coach jody.bell@catzsports.com

Jody is the Marketing Director and Sports

Performance Coach for CATZ-Austin.

Jody graduated from the University of Texas with a

Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and a Major in Sport Management. She was also a four year Letter Winner on the University of Texas Women’s Basketball team.

During her time at Texas she was part of two

regular season Big 12 Conference Championships, one Big 12 Tournament Championship and one trip to the Final Four.

Prior to joining CATZ Jody was part of the

Marketing Department at Nike where she was able to

gain valuable experience in sport and fitness

promotion. Along with being a Sports Performance Coach for CATZ Jody has been a girls basketball coach for the past four years. She has coached the Austin Glory girls’ 16 and under basketball team and is now in her second year as Varsity Assistant at St. Andrews Episcopal School.