Oregon Athletic Growth was created to fill a need for technical track & field training and speed/power development in Salem, Oregon and surrounding areas. Octavious Gillespie is a long time collegiate track & field coach with over 23 years of coaching experience. Octavious began his coaching career at UCLA and has coached at all levels of collegiate track & field. As a former decathlete, he is well versed in athletic development and track & field technique. Having recently retired from the head track and field coach position at Western Oregon University, Octavious has shifted his primary focus to private coaching. He is still engaged in collegiate coaching and is currently an assistant track and field coach at Willamette University.

Octavious Graduated for UCLA in 2003 where he competed in track & field. In high school he competed locally and Hillsboro high school. Originally from Guatemala, Octavious competed internationally for Guatemala braking multiple national records. He currently the Guatemalan national record holder in the decathlon. He resides in Salem with his wife Nicole and their two children.

During his time as the head coach at Western Oregon, his men’s and women’s teams were amongst the best in the GNACs,(Great Northwest Athletic Conference). In 2023, the men’s team won their first GNAC conference indoor track & field championship title since 2012. The women's team won a pair of GNAC titles with Gillespie – the 2022 GNAC Outdoor Championships and the 2023 GNAC Indoor Championships. Octavious was named GNAC Indoor Coach of the Year for both the men and women in 2023.

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