In high school I was asked to read:
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
My daughter's high school asked her to read:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Have we stopped believing kids can do hard things?
Man this one felt good!
We talked all year about needing “dudes and depth” to win big meets. We had both show out over 19 events. One more big one left! #RollStangs
Track & field is one of the last places in a school where the football captain, the valedictorian, the band kid, the wrestler, and the quiet kid who never thought he belonged can all wear the same jersey.
Track does not care what a kid’s last name is, how much money he has, what side of town he lives on, or how popular he is. Out here, none of that matters. Somewhere between the workouts, the bus rides, and the meets, kids who might never have spoken to each other start to build real respect.
It is hard not to respect somebody when you have seen what they are willing to push through and how much they are willing to give.
That is a big reason track & field will always mean more to me than just times, marks, and points.
Stop chasing outcomes.
Chasing leads to worry, fear of failure, & trying to force your way towards success. It never works.
Find things where your interests & talents align. Work your butt off at things that you enjoy the process of doing. The outcomes take care of themselves
Always a highlight for me is when last week’s winners present this week’s winners with our athlete of the week batons.
Today’s “exchanges”
Track: Jack Larson ➡️ Kye Schlichting.
Field: Eben Breker ➡️ Doug Napoleon.
JV/Underclassman: Braxtyn Deutsch ➡️ Christian Beil
@CoachDJBrock Going all-in on athletes who can do multiple events:
Short sprints (100-200-4x1)
Long sprints (200-400-4x4)
Distance (1500-5k-10k)
Multi’s
LJ/TJ
Young athlete: I need super intricate and “sport specific,” training to get better
All pro Christian McCaffrey using simple bounds, hops, sprints, jumps & lifts to get better:
A new meta-analysis on the impact of goal setting on performance found:
1. Process goals had a large effect on performance
2. Performance goals had a moderate effect
3. Outcome goals had a negligible effect
When you are confined to indoors and live in the flatlands of the red river valley, you get creative with your training. Plyo’s and accelerations at an incline inside the theater. #RollStangs#Wintheday
Watching what @NDSUfootball does here in their training is reason enough all FB players should do track in high school. We do these exact things every day.