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Brock Kreitzburg (born February 16, 1976) is an American bobsledder who has competed since 2001. == Career biography == A graduate from the University of Toledo and a native of Akron, Ohio, Kreitzburg has been in the US Bobsled program since 2001. 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...". Perseverance and dedication to the sport is something that Kreitzburg has had to prove constantly and with his selection 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. While the USA 2 bobsled. While the USA 2 bobsled did not fare well without Kreitzburg, this moment in his life led him to vow for Torino that “I will not be left at home” and his rededicated the World Cup 2005-06 season to be one of the world’s best. The 05-06 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 came knocking on Kreitzburg's door and invited him 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. As a member of the Home Depot program, Kreitzburg took part in a satellite media tour Torino back to the US. 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 campaign was not as smooth as the previous season and Kreitzburg focused 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brock Kreitzburg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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