Southern Region Staff

Trevor Sadler, STT Southern Region Director

• Profession: Music Engineer / Producer
• Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
• Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
• Education: Music Production - Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada.
• Current Bikes: Ducati 749 (track), Ducati,ST4s (street)
• Recent Highlights: Moving to the south and helping with STT Southern Division - also enjoying a longer riding season!
• Hobbies: Riding and wrenching on motorcycles, working in the studio on music, cooking and grilling.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Relax, smile, have fun, and take it one step at a time!

Cyndi Sadler, STT Southern Region Director

• Profession: World Wide E-Marketing Manager for John Deere All Makes
• Hometown: Charlotte, NC
• Birthplace: Gardner, Kansas
• Education: Broadcast Communications from Temple University - Philadelphia, PA
• Recent Highlights: NOT having my hands shake noticeably on pit out & getting "Sadler" embroidered on my leathers
• Current Bikes: Honda RS125 (Track), 1996 Ducati M900 (Street)
• Hobbies: Tending to my lawn and garden, watching KU (University of Kansas) Basketball & Green Bay Packers football, "helping" Trevor wrench on cars/motorcycles
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Find an instructor to follow for a few laps regardless of what class you signed up for, it's amazing what you can learn. There is nothing wrong with being slow, go only as fast as you are comfortable with.

Marc Perrone, STT Southern Lead Instructor

• Profession: Project Manager for AT&T
• Hometown: Cumming, GA
• Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky
• Education: Bachelors in Science, Business and Technology
• Recent Highlights: Waking up to another day!
• Current Bikes: 2009 GSX-R 1000 2000 R1-Frankenbike
• Hobbies: Waterskiing, Wakeboarding, Spending time with my 2 Girls and Wife..
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Enjoy, Breathe and Have fun.... Its not a Race and there is nothing to prove..

Brett Acord, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Regional Sales Manager, Standard Motor Products
• Hometown: Flowery Branch, Georgia
• Birthplace: Danville, Illinois
• Education: Wayne Central High School
• Recent Highlights: Life is a highlight!
• Current Bikes: 2009 Yamaha R1
• Hobbies: Spending time with my family. Guns and anything motorcycle related.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Relax and breathe. Track days aren't about winning a trophy, they are about having fun. Ride at your pace, not someone else's.

Stephen Aldrich, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Aldrich Construction
• Hometown: Paducah, KY
• Birthplace: Galesburg, IL
• Current Bikes:03 600RR, 96 CBR F3
• Hobbies: Track days, and spending time with my daughter.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Slow down, think about what you are doing. You will be amazed at what you will learn.

Lance "PORKY" Brannon, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Operator assistant.. Agrium- AAT division
• Hometown: Sylacauga Alabama
• Birthplace: Sylacauga Alabama
• Education: Childersburg High School
• Recent Highlights: 2009 WERA lightweight twins Novice National Champion.
• Current Bikes: 2007 Triumph 675
• Hobbies: mtn biking, road biking, and Hiking
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Relax and enjoy it.. its all about having fun

David Brooks, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Network Engineer
• Hometown: Waddy, KY
• Birthplace: Shelbyville, KY
• Education: Some college, numerous specialized technical classes.
• Recent Highlights: Enjoying time working with students at STT days, some racing and hanging out with friends at the track.
• Current Bikes: 2009 GSX-R1000 and 2007 GSX-R750
• Hobbies: Track days, racing, fishing, enjoy working on bikes.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Pack ahead of time so your day before is less stressfull, relax and have a good time. Go slow to go fast, as in if you are rushing and feel out of control back it down a notch to a comfortable level, you will learn more. Don't be afraid to ask a coach for help, that's why we are here!

Jim Calandro, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Retired
• Hometown: Waxhaw, NC
• Birthplace: Bronxville, NY
• Education: BS Military Art United States Military Academy
  MS Management University of Arkansas
• Current Bikes: Ducati SS 1000 DS
• Hobbies: US DESMO
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Work on skill sets and do not worry about speed. Get smooth and speed will come by its own.

Derrick Cantrell, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Regional General Manager - Concept Packaging Group
• Hometown: Spartanburg, SC
• Birthplace: Spartanburg, SC
• Education: University of South Carolina - Upstate
• Recent Highlights: 3-time National Champion (yellow plates)
  Taught my 3 year-old son to ride a motorcycle
• Current Bikes: 2010 BMW S1000RR
  2007 Suzuki GSXR 750
• Hobbies: Spending time with my son, Motorcycles, and Golf
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: The track is a great place to explore your limits, just remember to approach them slowly.... ....and remember to check your tire pressure!!!

Jimmy Cavender, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Operations Manager
• Hometown: Winfield, Alabama
• Birthplace: Guin, Alabama
• Education: Marion County High School 1987
• Current Bikes: 2007 Suzuki GSXR 750
• Hobbies: Riding, working out and spending time with my family and friends. I also enjoy most sports. I love hanging out in the pool.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Just have fun. Relax and remember to breathe. Get to know the folks you ride with. We are one big happy family.

Deryk Davidson, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Project Manager, Business Owner
• Hometown: Hollywood, FL
• Birthplace: Sunrise, FL
• Education: BA - Florida International University
  MA - University of Tulsa
• Current Bikes: 2005 Honda CBR600RR
• Hobbies: Riding, Traveling, Hiking
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Don't ride beyond your means and have fun!

Michael Davis, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: GIS Technician
• Hometown: Madison, MS
• Birthplace: Florence, MS
• Current Bikes: 05 GSXR 750
• Hobbies: Biking, djing, 1st person shooters
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Be safe and have fun and try not to ride over your head.

Matt Dean, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Police Officer
• Hometown: Culman, Alabama
• Birthplace: Culman, Alabama
• Current Bikes:06 Honda CBR 600 RR, 02 Harley Davidson Electra Glide
• Hobbies: Tinkering with cars and bikes
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Make sure you have adequate equipment!

Jeff Foster, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: home improvement contractor
• Hometown: fort lauderdale fla
• Birthplace: buffalo,ny
• Education: Graduated high school & the university of life has and keeps teaching me well!
• Recent Highlights: purchase of my new ducati for the track and purchase of a new truck to tow the new duc to the track, also moving into a new home.
• Current Bikes: 1988 FZR 1000, 1999 Honda CBR XX, 2001 Ducati 996, 2002 Suzuki 1300R Hyabusa, 2008 1198 Ducati
  2007 Suzuki GSXR 750
• Hobbies: Building motorcycle models and collecting the same, riding the northern Georgia mountains and the surrounding area's. Traveling and camping
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Be relaxed, you are out to enjoy the sessions, study the track as you ride it has a story to tell you. Remember to breathe and always ask questions.

Steve Fox, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Auto business owner
• Hometown: Davie, Florida
• Birthplace: Long Island
• Education: University of Miami, Marine Biology
• Recent Highlights: Kids are off to college, more time to ride!!!
• Current Bikes: Ducati 996/1098/900ss, Aprilia RS250, Ducati 900FE, Kawasaki Nomad (cruzin' with the wife!)
• Hobbies: Motorcycle racing, skeet shooting, Drag racing
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Take it easy and take your time. Pick up a copy of Keith Code's books and learn them. If in doubt about anything ask the instructors.

Paul Freeman, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Home Building Contractor
• Hometown: McMinnville, TN
• Birthplace: Manchester, TN
• Education: High School and Life
• Recent Highlights: Drove pro outboard drag boat for 15 years, won grand national title and world champ. Enjoy the bikes like to go fast out of 4 races 3 top 3 finishes only been riding 4 years.
• Current Bikes: R 6 yamaha track bike rsv 60 aprille R 1800 VTX honda
• Hobbies: big bozs toys
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: ant nobody goin listen so that about it but keep on tryin

Shawn Gosselin, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Bartender at TGI Fridays
• Hometown: Paducah, KY
• Birthplace: Exeter, NH
• Education: i live in kentucky....whats edgemucation? lol
• Recent Highlights: Making the STT staff, and moving to a new house with a garage big enough for all my toys
• Current Bikes: blue and yellow 08 600RR-track silver 08 600RR-street/parts bike for my track bike
• Hobbies: motorcycles of course, being outdoors, playing with my dogs, spending time with my family and friends
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: have fun, breathe, be smooth. you wont master the track after just a few days it takes time. be patient. start off slow, learn and master the basics, and the speed will come.

Jeff Hagewood, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Electrician
• Hometown: Mt. Juliet,TN
• Birthplace: Nashville,TN
• Education: 4 year Apprenticeship
• Recent Highlights: My wife and I have a baby on the way.
• Current Bikes: 06 CBR600rr, 06 CRF250, GAS GAS 280, and TLR200
• Hobbies: Motorcycles, water ski, and Bonfire parties
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Relax, Listen, and Have FUN!!

 

• Profession: Union Electrician
• Hometown: Kevil, KY
• Birthplace: Paducah, KY
• Recent Highlights: Became a member of the STT Staff!!
• Current Bikes: 08 GSXR 600
• Hobbies: Motorcycles, Guns, ATV's
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Smooth is Fast!!!

Matt Haven, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Sales / Marketing
• Hometown: Louisville, KY
• Birthplace: Louisville, KY
• Education: University of Louisville
• Recent Highlights: 2010 WERA Regional Champion
• Current Bikes: 2006 GSXR600
  2010 Ducati Monster 1100S

 

Michael Lindsey, STT Southern Instructor

 

• Profession: Systems Architect
• Hometown: Dallas, GA
• Birthplace: Birmingham, AL
• Education: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Kennesaw State University
• Current Bikes: 2009 GSXR750
• Hobbies: Mortorcycling, College football, Camping, Hanging out with friends
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Slow down to go fast.

Kenneth Linn, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Marine Electrician
• Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Birthplace: Springfield, Ohio
• Education: MS, University of California
• Recent Highlights: Ben Spies on top of the box
• Current Bikes: Yamaha FZ 1, Suzuki GSX-R750
• Hobbies: I gave them all up for the track!
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Trust your front tire - respect your front brake

Peggy Lux, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Medical Coder
• Hometown: Maryville, TN
• Birthplace: Highland, IL
• Education: Life and some college
• Recent Highlights: Joining the STT Southern Division as an instructor.
• Current Bikes: Honda '04 600RR (Track Only) and a Honda '03 600RR (Street)
• Hobbies: Anything that includes motorcycles and my husband.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Relax, focus, try to be consistent in your riding, ride at your own pace and remember that there is always going to be someone better and faster than you

Vernon Lux (Vern), STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Journeyman Electrician
• Hometown: Maryville, TN
• Birthplace: Midwest
• Education: Some College and a 4 year apprenticeship.....not mention 56 years of "life experiences".
• Recent Highlights: Being selected to join the STT staff of the Southern Division as an Instructor
• Current Bikes: 07 600RR (Track only), 07 600RR (Street), 08 ST1300, 04 1000RR (Track only), Zuma 50 Pit bike
• Hobbies: Motorcycles: street and track riding Casual target shooting
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Come to the track prepared mentally, physically, and equipment wise. Learn the fundamentals one by one and try to improve each and every time that you are out there. Learn to be smooth on the throttle and brakes, be consistent, and always try to be predictable. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it. Have fun and enjoy this sport that we all love.

 

• Profession: Medical Technologist
• Hometown: Norcross, GA
• Birthplace: Charleston, WV
• Education: B.S. Medical Technology
• Current Bikes: 06 GSXR 750
• Hobbies: Lifting weights, riding at the track (DUH!!)
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Work on one aspect of your riding every session.

Jimmy Pierce, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Cell phone repair store
• Hometown: Paducah, KY
• Birthplace: Paducah, KY
• Current Bikes: 06 gsxr 600 (track) 03 cbr954 (street)
• Hobbies: Boating, Camping and anything else outdoors with my family.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Use a checklist before you come. Once you get on a hot track, focus on yourself and forget the world :)

 

• Profession: Residential and commercial maintenance.
• Hometown: Johns Creek, Georgia
• Birthplace: Vilnius, Lithuania
• Education: Technical college
• Recent Highlights: Became a member of the STT staff.
• Current Bikes: 07 GSXR 600 (track only), 07 r6 (track only), 07 HD Dyna Wide Glide (street)
• Hobbies: Riding motorcycles, traveling, fishing, hunting.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Be smooth and predictable, breathe and have fun.

Michael "Opie" Taylor, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: USN Contract Flight Instructor and Naval Aviation Consultant
• Hometown: Meridian, MS
• Birthplace: Opelika, AL
• Education: Bachelor of Commercial Aviation, Delta State University
• Recent Highlights: Staying on with STT for another year!
• Current Bikes: SV650, GSXR 600 SRAD
• Hobbies: Spending all of the time I can with my family, building remote controlled flying contraptions, and track days of course.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Focus on the fundamentals and being smooth. Trying to go too fast too soon will slow you down and make bad things happen. Put the lap timer behind you!

Ken Tree, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Registered Nurse
• Hometown: Madison,Ms
• Birthplace: Cobleskill, New York
• Education: College Grad
• Current Bikes: 04 Suzuki GSXR-750
• Hobbies: Trackdays, coaching riders, bow-hunting and fishing
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: body-brake-shift-look-lean-believe and you'll get it done...

Cam Waters, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Consultative Sales
• Hometown: Carrollton, GA
• Birthplace: Carrollton, GA
• Education: BS-Marketing
  BS-Human Resources
• Recent Highlights: I have been instructing for three years now, and this has been one of the greatest opportunities in my life. I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it.
• Current Bikes: 2006 ZX6R-636
• Hobbies: Anything with two wheels, going to the lake, working out, going to Braves game, and spending time with my two beautiful daughters.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Relax, be smooth, breathe, turn the bike, have fun, and ask lots of questions. The instructors are here to help you improve your skills and become more confident.

Scott Wilcoxson, STT Southern Instructor

• Profession: Real Estate Appraiser
• Hometown: Florence, AL
• Birthplace: Florence, AL
• Recent Highlights: Surviving 24 hr Challenge off-road race.
• Current Bikes: 2003 GSXR1K, 2001 ZRX1200, 2009 KTM 250XCW
• Hobbies: Staying on the green side of the dirt for as long as I can.
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Riding is better than crashing!!!!!!

James Yearout, STT Southern Instructor

 

• Profession: Firefighter
• Hometown: Chickamauga, GA
• Current Bikes: 2006 zx636R
• Hobbies: Family, caving and anything motorcycle related
• Best Advice for Someone Doing Track Days: Relax and have fun. After all...it is a hobby.