Sam Kendricks
Olympian, World Champion, and Visionary Founder of The Refuge Training Center
Sam Kendricks, World Champion and Olympic Pole vaulter from Mississippi has been all over the world competing with the world’s best for many years. He’s won the Diamond League, Continental Cups, NCAA championships and just about every other kind of medal you can achieve in the sport. But that isn’t Sam that everyone knows back home. The truth is, his origins aren’t the talented gem that surged through the ranks to challenge the champions of the world. In actuality, he wasn’t able to even make the team in the beginning. His gifts weren’t athletic, they were his family. Sam, his twin Tom, little brother John and Mary Charles were all coached to high school state championships (by their father, Scott Kendricks, at Oxford High School. Coach K has continued to coach Sam for 18 years and is a partner in the training center. Sam, along with his twin brother Tom trained with their father every day for over a decade with access and love only achieved due to great sacrifice from family. Through the months, years and thousands of hours on the track, Sam was able to grow under that amazing tutelage. The values that Sam wishes to convey through the Refuge are just the same as he was afforded through the amazing and enduring relationships that come from his lifetime in sport. He hopes you’ll come and see for yourself whnere your journey will take you.
Our team
Cameron Crawford
Massage Therapist
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Cameron Crawford, LMT#2745, currently serves as a licensed Massage Therapist for Refuge Training Center. Cameron has been a resident of Oxford, MS for 26 years and a MT since 2019. In 2020, Cameron served as the MT for the University of Mississippi Athletics. He specializes in Sports Massage, both pre and post recovery. Sports have been engrained in Cameron from a very young age as a Track and Field athlete and Baseball player. Being an athlete was a critical and very impactful proponent in the evolution of his being in all realms, mental, physical, spiritual and emotional. The intention and devotion that Cameron wants to radiate at the Refuge Training Center is to help serve and assist each athlete in maximizing their fullest potential on their recovery journey of not only mastering the art of Pole Vaulting, but mastering the art of optimization of one’s self.
Corbit Franks
Athletic Trainer
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Corbit Franks PhD, ATC, CES currently serves as the Athletic Trainer for Refuge Training Center and is an Assistant Professor and Clinical Education Coordinator for the Master of Science in Athletic Training at The University of Mississippi.
Prior to his current roles, Corbit served as an athletic trainer at Ole Miss from 2010-2021, working with numerous sports and eventual professional athletes and Olympians.
Corbit has a vast background in a variety of manual therapy techniques including Dry Needling and Graston Technique. He also has experience with movement screening and training in the Selective Functional Movement Assessment and Functional Movement Screen through Functional Movement Systems as well as being a Corrective Exercise Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nutrition & Hospitality Management from the University of Mississippi in May of 2020 and his Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from Union University in May 2010.
Corbit is a Board Certified Athletic Trainer by the Board of Certification of Athletic Training.
Noah Mumme
Athletic & Instructor
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Noah Mumme currently serves as an athletic and instructor at Refuge Training Center.
Originally from Satellite Beach, Florida, he graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2021. During his tenure there he won the 2020 Sun Belt Indoor Conference Championship. In 2023 Noah competed for the Ole Miss Rebels scoring 12 points at the SEC Championships; secured a Silver Medal Indoors and 4th place Outdoors. As one of the founding members of the RTC, Noah is in awe of the growth and potential this elite facility has to offer. Noah intends to cultivate success amongst the people he leads as he continues on his pole vault journey here at RTC.
