Mallard Creek Tennis

[RunBlogRun @RunBlogRun]

#inthemixedzone, Mondo Duplantis, 2025 Nike Pre Classic presser.
A fun interview with @mondo_duplantis , our topics:
1. Note from his Swedish grandpa
2. What was harder, learning the pole vault or learning Swedish?
3. The twelve hours in Eugene in 2024 Pre Classic
4. The worse hangover of Mondo’s life

I remember watching Greg Duplantis winning PV at Pre back in 1992. Watching Mondo compete now is alit of fun!

🎥 @larryeder1958

@redbull , @puma, @preclassic , #diamondleagueathletics, #sweden

[Brady Long @thisguyknowsai]

A woman who flunked her way through every math and science course in high school enlisted in the United States Army the day after graduation because she had no other options.

She learned Russian. She translated on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea. She worked at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. Then in her mid-twenties she decided to go back and learn the exact subject that had defeated her. She earned a degree in electrical engineering, then a master's, then a PhD in systems engineering. She became a professor of engineering. Then she built the most enrolled online course in the history of the internet.

It is a course about how to learn.

Her name is Barbara Oakley.

Here is the story, because the person who taught more humans how to learn than anyone alive is someone who spent the first half of her life believing she could not.

Barbara was born on November 24, 1955 in Lodi, California. Her father Alfred was a bomber pilot in the US Army Air Corps during World War II. She grew up convinced she was not wired for math. She did not just struggle with it. She flunked it. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses and saw no path forward that required either.

She enlisted in the Army immediately after graduation. She rose from the rank of Private to Captain. She was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar. She leaned into the one thing she was good at, languages, and became fluent in Russian.

The Army sent her to places most people never see. She worked as a Russian translator on board Soviet trawlers on the Bering Sea during the final years of the Cold War. She worked as a communications expert at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. She thrived in extreme environments. But a thought kept following her. The world seemed to reward people who could do things she could not. Calculations. Technical reasoning. Systems design.

She began to wonder whether her problem with math was permanent or whether it was a problem with how she had tried to learn it.

In her mid-twenties she did something most people would never attempt. She went back to school to study the subjects she had failed at. She enrolled in mathematics and engineering courses and committed to learning them from the ground up. She was starting over at an age when most engineers were finishing their degrees.

She earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Then a master's degree. Then a PhD in systems engineering. She became a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. The woman who had flunked high school math was now standing at a whiteboard teaching engineering to hundreds of students.

Then she asked a question nobody else in her position was asking. Why had she failed the first time, and what had changed the second time?

She spent years studying neuroscience and learning science. She collaborated with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, one of the most respected neuroscientists in the world. Together they built a free online course on Coursera called Learning How to Learn.

The course exploded. It became the most popular massive open online course ever created. Over two million students registered in the early years. The number has continued to grow. It teaches the mental tools experts use to master difficult subjects, chunking, spaced repetition, focused and diffuse thinking, and it is grounded in neuroscience rather than productivity hacks.

She wrote A Mind for Numbers, subtitled How to Excel at Math and Science Even If You Flunked Algebra. She wrote Mindshift. She wrote Uncommon Sense Teaching. She won the McGraw Prize, often called the Nobel Prize for Education. She won the Chester F. Carlson Award from the American Society of Engineering Education. She became a Fellow of IEEE. Her research was described as revolutionary by the Wall Street Journal. She published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A woman who flunked high school math built the most enrolled course in the history of the internet about the thing she was worst at.

She did not overcome a limitation.

She studied the limitation itself, and turned it into a curriculum the entire world now learns from.

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

.@jalenbrunson1 says the support and sacrifice of his parents made choosing basketball easy. “He had the blueprint,” Brunson says of his father, @nyknicks assistant coach Rick Brunson.

The father-son duo — the first to win a championship as a player and a coach for the same team — share about basketball’s life lessons and whether Jalen ranks atop Rick’s greatest Knicks of all time: “Another seven years, we can revisit that question.”

[Mallard Creek Tennis @Eaglevaultcoach]

@northmeckbball @NM_Vikings Great school great programs

[North Meck Hoops @northmeckbball]

𝙉𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙈𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨.
💍💍
114-14 record (just 3 home losses & only 6 losses from other NC schools in 4 years).
4 conference championships, 3 conference tournament championships, 4 Final 4 appearances, 2 state championships. 5 grads…5 future college hoopers.
#V4L

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

What does being “Coachable” look like?

- Eye contact
- Good body language
- Nodding when listening
- Growth mindset
- Seek feedback
- No excuses
- Leave ego at the door
- Accept criticism

Being coachable isn't knowing it all.
It's being willing to learn it all.

[Papageorgio @gecffmn]

I think MLB is the only sport that the players still enjoy playing!❤️❤️

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Gregg Popovich might be the most loved coach in NBA history

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

HEARTBREAKING: #NFL HCs and GMs LAUGHED AT Darren Sproles when he measured in at the combine and was only 5-foot-6 and weighed in at 170 pounds.

Sproles called his dad: “They laughed at me”

His Dad replied: “You know what to do”

Sproles became a legend.

[🌷🦋 Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

Famous people's spirit ❤️🥺

[Mallard Creek Tennis @Eaglevaultcoach]

@CharlotteTFXC @NCAATrackField Congratulations to Sarah. Great career.

[Antoine Sanders @coachant1on]

Your 2026 Outdoor State Champions. 1st girls outdoor title in school history. So proud and honored to coach this group of young ladies. The Glory belongs to God!! HE won’t Fail!! They continued to show up and work. Thank you to everyone that supported us. God Can
@PastorMikeJr

[Jared Thompson @DrJaredThompson]

🏆Champion. Nyan is an elite athlete on the national stage, but an even better young man off of it. A true champion and an outstanding student-athlete. #CreekSpeed
@NCHSAA

[Charlotte TF & XC @CharlotteTFXC]

Three events, 22 points for Sarah Pullium in her final @American_Conf Outdoor Championship earns her Women’s Most Valuable Performer!

[Mallard Creek Tennis @Eaglevaultcoach]

@CharlotteTFXC @American_Conf Congratulations

[Mallard Creek Tennis @Eaglevaultcoach]

@GopherCCTF @USTFCCCA @bigten @runnerspace @BigTenPlus @CoachKabia @NCAATrackField Great sportsmanship thanking the officials.

[Minnesota Cross Country, Track & Field @GopherCCTF]

Godfred 🇳🇬 passed his final attempt in favor of a celebratory run down the long jump runway 🤣🏆🏆🏆 @bigten

[Derrick Matthews @DnyceTheGenius]

@JoelBryantHSOT No Disqualification but some how he gets one for literally a similar celebration

[Mallard Creek Tennis @Eaglevaultcoach]

@CoachJGrice In the field events and other events they’re jumping all over the place when they get a big height, long jump and/or far throw. Also in the distance races to it happens quite often.

[Team Raise The Bar🥑 @TeamRaiseBar]

#PoleVault