If you’ve ever had a child in sports, you know that it is expensive. But, there are many ways that you can continue to support your child’s love of the game without overspending. While you will spend money, some of the tips above double as excellent bonding opportunities worth any price. Today’s post is just [...]
One of the dreams for many athletes is wanting to play in college. Thus, the question is asked if that athlete has the ability to play college athletics. I feel the simple answer is YES! At what level does your ability translate best to - Division 1, 2, or 3? When you can comfortably answer [...]
I don’t know if you realize it, but we are experiencing a shrinking number of officials and coaches. When I talk with parents, one of the more popular topics is about coaches and finding good ones. Officials are only discussed if there was a game the client lost. In the last 10 years, there has [...]
The last few weeks, I’ve been discussing how my daughter, Anna, dropped her time and improved her speed over her four years of high school. If you have been tuning me out, you really shouldn’t. If I got HER speed to improve, then chances are I can do that for your athlete. The beauty of [...]
How to get faster? How can you improve your speed? Questions that have been asked throughout the years of competition once we started racing against others. There is more research out nowadays that proves, yes you can improve speed if done correctly. For the past few weeks, I’ve been discussing the program I did with [...]
Last week, I discussed some of the common traits of the high school state champions I’ve worked with. This week, I’m going to illustrate the speed improvement your high school athlete can make if put on the proper speed program. People might think that you are naturally going to get faster from freshman year to [...]
I’ve been lucky enough to work with a few state track & field champions in the great state of Ohio. A lot of the theories behind our speed development program for all athletes is what we have done with these state track champions. Think about it. If we put a track athlete through a program, [...]
I’m not going to lie. I get a little irritated when I hear people say that their kids are doing some sort of athlete training program at the local country club with one of their trainers. Am I jealous? Not necessarily, but I liken it to going to your family doctor to figure out what [...]
After watching the track and field Olympic trials, I’ve come to the conclusion that distance runners need to implement sprint training into their workouts. I saw more distance races at the trials that came down to sprinting. And if your distant runner can’t sprint effectively, you better hope he/she has built up a big lead [...]
I had an unbelievable year coaching our boys and girls track teams at Bishop Watterson. We broke a bunch of school records and our girls placed higher than any other girls team at the state meet in school history. Just at the state meet for the girls alone we did the following: Placed third as [...]
“There may be people that have more talent than you do. But there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” ~Derek Jeter
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