Latest / The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast / 2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Jake Degenshein-Univ of Lynchburg

Transcript

2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Jake Degenshein-Univ of Lynchburg · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

• 0:05
  Hey podcast listeners, we're super excited about December
• 0:08
  11th at 5:30 Mountain Time Denver Time when we're going to
• 0:12
  go live once again on YouTube to record a live Gil Connections
• 0:16
  podcast. To celebrate, we're giving you
• 0:18
  bonus clips every day until then of last year's 2022 guests that
• 0:23
  came onto the live Gill Connections podcast.
• 0:26
  Check it out. Look in the show notes below and
• 0:28
  you'll see the URL. Check us out December 11th, 5:30
• 0:32
  PM Denver time. Oh man, that's a lot of fun.
• 0:38
  I really do love Alumni's of the podcasts that come on here Now,
• 0:42
  this guy's not an alumni. He's barely an alumni of a
• 0:45
  school. He's that young and green in
• 0:48
  this world. Introduce yourself here, Jake.
• 0:50
  So my name is Jake Dagenshan. I'm the first coach and
• 0:54
  recruiting coordinator right now at the University of Lynchburg
• 0:56
  in central Virginia. Now, how many years or how many
• 0:58
  conventions have you come to? Here, This is my second
• 1:01
  convention, so last year was my first, yeah.
• 1:03
  That's where we first met, yeah. But yeah, so.
• 1:07
  Been a lot of fun year two in college coaching, been.
• 1:08
  Doing. Coaching as a whole for 4 1/2
• 1:11
  years and it's high school coaching while I was still in
• 1:13
  college. And how different as you
• 1:17
  approach this week, this year, this week, how different are you
• 1:20
  approaching it than last week when you were green and you
• 1:22
  know, probably wide eyed and like, Oh my God, everybody's
• 1:24
  here. There's so many things I can do
• 1:26
  on the schedule. How are you approaching it
• 1:28
  differently this year? I really think that the biggest
• 1:31
  thing that I've been trying to do and to approach differently
• 1:33
  is just. Taking in as much information as
• 1:35
  possible, meeting as many people as possible, taking everything
• 1:37
  kind of day by day, and taking each experience as as its own.
• 1:42
  And what are you like maybe you did this last year, but is there
• 1:45
  anything that when you looked at the schedule you highlighted
• 1:47
  double like you highlighted in circle like I am not in the
• 1:50
  scene this what that might have been?
• 1:52
  For the convention, probably Sean Denard's speech, his
• 1:58
  symposium when he was talking about, I think.
• 2:00
  I remember correctly. It was like neuromuscular
• 2:02
  adaptations in throwers coming from Olympic weightlifting,
• 2:05
  because that's a huge part of what I do.
• 2:07
  So I also do a lot of the strength conditioning
• 2:08
  programming for our throwers. So getting an opportunity to
• 2:11
  kind of hear him speak about that and take what he talked
• 2:14
  about, translate to what I do for our program and everything
• 2:17
  like that, help our kids build up.
• 2:18
  So that was, that was the big one This year.
• 2:21
  I think Don Babbitt Symposium is gonna be a big one.
• 2:23
  That's I mean, yeah. Come on, #legend.
• 2:26
  Brother Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me a break, yeah.
• 2:27
  What's he Speaking of, you know? I don't remember.
• 2:30
  I should probably know that, right?
• 2:31
  It is double highlighted. But, but who cares if if Don
• 2:35
  Babbitt is on the schedule and he's going to talk about tic tac
• 2:37
  toe strategies, Well, I'm gonna learn to play Tic Tac toe.
• 2:40
  Don talks. He's one of the people.
• 2:41
  Boosh xators. One that's like, oh, they're
• 2:43
  talking. All right, well, I'm just gonna
• 2:45
  go because I'll learn something. Yeah, you know when the when the
• 2:47
  greats are speaking, because as soon as they start talking,
• 2:49
  everyone else is dead silent. They're writing things down,
• 2:52
  yeah. I to give a little bit of a
• 2:55
  preview. So season four of the Gill off
• 2:57
  and explanations podcast starts on January 2nd this year and
• 3:01
  we're kicking off season four with Dan half.
• 3:04
  And as we were getting ready to interview Dan a month or so ago
• 3:07
  another coach I don't know if he wants me to tell the story so I
• 3:10
  won't name him but he said hey here's my Dan patch story he was
• 3:14
  speaking and this was recently this coach been coaching for a
• 3:16
  long time now. This ain't no rookie like you.
• 3:19
  He said all I did was just sit there and write note like I was
• 3:21
  front row and I've been coaching for 30 years and I just sat
• 3:23
  there in the front row and he goes and I remember the very
• 3:25
  last thing I just wrote. I am so dumb cuz Dan is so.
• 3:30
  So, so knowledgeable. Well, Jake, so we're gonna have
• 3:32
  a little fun here today. I've got 100.
• 3:34
  I'll be cheating. I got 100 random questions.
• 3:37
  And you know you guys that are out there in live world, you
• 3:39
  know how random these are. One through 100.
• 3:41
  You get to pick the number that we're gonna ask.
• 3:43
  Let's. Go 52.
• 3:46
  What's the significance of 52? That was my first football
• 3:50
  number back in like, game football, yeah.
• 3:53
  Let's get Tron, man. If you could be in in in any
• 3:57
  video game, which one would it be?
• 3:59
  Like you in it, man, Like you you you attacking Donkey Kong or
• 4:01
  something. Like what game would you be in
• 4:03
  Member Tron. They were in the game.
• 4:04
  Yeah, yeah. That's a tough one right now.
• 4:08
  Probably God of War 'cause I've just been.
• 4:10
  I'm not a huge gamer, but I haven't seen all the videos on
• 4:12
  that and that. I played some intex.
• 4:13
  Yeah, but that that game looks. Would you?
• 4:16
  Be the crados. Is the name.
• 4:18
  Would you? Be him?
• 4:19
  Oh yeah, that'd. Be so cool, monsters.
• 4:22
  Now being crados would be so cool, just have like the power
• 4:24
  and be like that big pop guy and everything would be so.
• 4:26
  Much fun. I just want the tattoos that he
• 4:27
  had. That's always got the coolest he
• 4:28
  rocks the bald head with. The nice wire.
• 4:30
  Yeah. Alright, you get one more
• 4:32
  question. Let's.
• 4:35
  Go 60. Three, What's What's the
• 4:37
  significance of 60? Three all.
• 4:40
  Right, man. Let's talk about some chill
• 4:42
  time. You're back in high school.
• 4:44
  There's no sports practice after school.
• 4:46
  What are you doing and with whom, just to chill?
• 4:50
  Probably not the most chill activity, but working out,
• 4:53
  honestly, just something about it, so relaxing and having like
• 4:57
  that set goal, pop the headphones in and everything
• 4:59
  like that, wasn't it? You know, I'm big rock fans, so
• 5:01
  always rock big. Big A/C DC fans.
• 5:04
  Yeah, so blaring that and just going after a really hard lift,
• 5:06
  having a lot of fun with that. And you know, friends tag along
• 5:09
  that kind of things always. Sometimes.
• 5:10
  Well, wrap us up here, man. What are you looking forward to
• 5:12
  the most in the 2023 season? Oh, geez.
• 5:15
  Probably just. Overall, the experience, the
• 5:17
  experience with with the athletes and everything like
• 5:19
  that and watching them grow and develop, that's been the biggest
• 5:21
  thing I learned in year one was just everything you can do to
• 5:24
  help the kids get better, help them grow, develop athletically,
• 5:27
  personally and everything that they're doing.
• 5:29
  And seeing the growth that they made from last year to this year
• 5:32
  was incredible. And seeing what they're going to
• 5:34
  do in the 2023 season to be even better.
• 5:36
  You know, I just hope for you. And I just know because I know
• 5:39
  it's going to be true. It's just a long, satisfying
• 5:42
  career, man. You know, it's it's it's great.
• 5:44
  I remember my first. You know, a couple of years
• 5:46
  coaching and just, you know, it's everything.
• 5:48
  It's all consuming, man. You gotta know.
• 5:50
  You gotta think long term, man. I saw the greatest thing on
• 5:52
  Twitter of all places. Of course, Kimber, who was, and
• 5:56
  I'm so sorry, I want to say it was Brett Barkolomew, I think is
• 5:58
  his name. I think he's the one that said
• 5:59
  it. But he talked about just like
• 6:02
  you periodize periodization stuff in your athletes periodize
• 6:05
  your career. Like, think about what you're
• 6:07
  doing there, because I think you know you've got the things up
• 6:10
  here and then here to have a long career, we just can't have
• 6:13
  you. Burnt out and be done at 3035.
• 6:17
  Alright man, let's take our selfie.
• 6:18
  Alright, thanks. For being on the live Gill
• 6:20
  Athletics Connections podcast right here at the USTFCA 2022
• 6:24
  Convention World Records Shortest Gill Athletics
• 6:31
  Connections Podcast ever, check us out December 11th, 530
• 6:35
  Denver, Co Rocky Mountain Central Time.
• 6:38
  Check us out on YouTube in the link below in the show notes.