GA Chain Gang

Dave Armento, Frank Fuerst, Tony Myers, Jerome Rossetti

The Team: Tony Myers, Frank Fuerst, Dave Armento, Jerome Rossetti

Dave Armento

Dave is an avid endurance athlete. His past pursuits include more than 10 marathons, Iron Man Canada, and a swim around Manhattan Island.

Dave is highly motivated to compete in RAAM. He considers Team in Training to be a great cause. He has lost a sister, uncle and father-in-law to Leukemia.

He lives with his wife and three children in Atlanta, Georgia. Dave is the founder and CEO of New Dominion, a commercial real estate company with holdings in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia.

Mr. Armento holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Penn State University, and an MBA from Wharton Business School. He sits on the boards of Saint Joseph’s Hospital Service Corporation, and The Mansell Group.

Frank Fuerst

Frank is a lifelong cyclist and endurance athlete. A long time runner and triathlete, Frank has concentrated on long distance cycling for the last five years. He has competed some of the most challenging one-day endurance events, including the Assault on Mt Mitchell, Triple Bypass and the Death Valley Double Century, where he finished 21st overall.

Frank was on the crew during the GCG’s 2009 RAAM competition and now is looking forward to competing as a rider in 2010.

Frank has made his home in Georgia for the last 27 years, where he and his wife Karen have raised their two daughters, Marissa and Adrienne. He is the co-founder and CEO of B2B Technologies, an IT Professional Services company. Frank has an Engineering degree from Brown University and an MBA from Georgia Tech.

Tony Myers

Tony Myers is a certified triathlon and cycling coach and owner of Athletic Training Services LLC in Atlanta/Buckhead, GA. Tony has a long history of endurance athletics, with cycling competition dating back to the mid-seventies and running and triathlon competition starting in the early eighties.

Tony has logged several hundred thousand miles on the bicycle and completed such events as The Assault on Mt. Mitchell (10 times), The Mt. Washington Climb and many well known extreme century rides and high mileage endurance rides including Brevets and double centuries. Tony has completed three Ironman events and numerous half iron-distance events as well.

After spending 25 years in the engineering and design-build construction world while training and coaching, Tony finally quit his career path and started Athletic Training Services (ATS) with the support of his wife Nancy.  ATS and all its endeavors are a passion for Tony and Nancy; it’s about the athletes and THE COMMUNITY…

Tony and Athletic Training Services are long time supporters of Team-in-Training and TnT athletes, offering special coaching, testing and training rates to TnT fund raisers since the formation of Athletic Training Services in 2003. As a coach Tony has worked with over 100 half-iron and iron distance triathletes, many of them originally TnT fund raisers. Tony is also a recipient of the YMCA Volunteer of the Year award for metro-Atlanta in 1999 and selected as a bronze/silver medal winner for top endurance athlete coach in Atlanta for the last four years. He will be training the Georgia Chain Gang for the 2009 RAAM and participating himself.

Jerome Rossetti

Jerome has been cycling on and off since 1982.  He has competed in various cycling races and events through out the Southeast.  He is an avid endurance cyclist and is enthusiastic about the RAAM race.

He is excited about the opportunity that Team in Training (TnT) gave the team.  The goal of the team is to help TnT raise money and awareness for the cure for Leukemia and Lymphoma.

Jerome grew up in the Atlanta area and attended Woodward Academy where he graduated in 1981.  While at Woodward he was co-captain of the 1980 state championship football team.  He made all state and was selected to play on the GACA All-Star team.

He then attended the University of Georgia and graduated with a B.S. degree in Agricultural Economics.  While at UGA he played on the 1981-82 Georgia Bulldogs football team.  They won the Southeastern Conference Championship that year.  Jerome had a career ending knee injury spring of his freshman year and retired from football.  He then took up cycling to help his rehabilitation.

He is a home builder and developer and prides himself on building eco-friendly “green” homes.  Jerome is a partner in a custom home building company in Atlanta, Georgia.  He is married with three kids in Atlanta.