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BONUS: Live Coach's Interviews from Day 1 Nike Outdoor Nationals with MF Athletic! · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  What's up everybody, Mike Cunningham here at the Nike
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  Outdoor National Meet, also the USATF U20 meet right here in
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  Hayward Field. We're going to be bringing you
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  little mini podcast all week Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
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  Sunday with coaches here in the coaches Hospitality sponsored by
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  Gill Athletics and then Thursday today is actually also sponsored
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  by MF Athletics. So join us here.
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  We're going to have a good time as we have these amazing youth
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  athletes competing for for trips on the Team USA and for All
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  American here at the Nike Outdoor National meet.
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  So let's get started with our first interview.
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  All right, we got our first victim of day one here at the
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  Nike Outdoor National meet. Why don't you introduce yourself
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  and who you are here with? I am shake of others and I'm
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  here with the Revelation Track Club.
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  Out of beautiful Memphis, TN Yeah before we hit recording I
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  told you as in starting at least to fly out of Memphis.
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  Actually one of my and I gosh I cannot remember her name.
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  One of my top hit athletes ever. She was a multi time all
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  American in Mississippi State. Was from Memphis back in the day
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  around 00506. Marissa, I remember she was
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  awesome. So here we are, we're beautiful.
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  Hayward Field at the Nike Outdoor National USATF U20 meet
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  as well. What what brings you here to
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  Eugene? What do you got going?
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  On On the Track we have one child representing Revelation in
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  the 100m and the 200m, so we're here to take the title.
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  Memphis is known for its speed. Yes, we are in BBQ.
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  And BBQ, you know, I think you looked at me and saw, well, I
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  know he eats a lot of BBQ. So yeah, I, I get it.
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  I get it, I get it. Now, I'm always curious, you
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  know, from an outside perspective, this weekend and
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  and I think maybe next weekend, there's a lot of meats that you
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  guys could have gone to. There's one up in Philly, one in
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  North Carolina, things like that.
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  Why? Why here in Eugene, OR?
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  Because Nike is the best. If you could see I have a little
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  tiny mic in my hand. I almost dropped the mic for
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  Shay. That's that was pretty, pretty
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  evident. Well, Shay, thank you so much
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  for being here. We're so grateful for what you
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  do as a track coach. If you don't do what you do, we
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  can't do what we do. And so we're just so thankful
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  for you. Thank you too.
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  Thank. You all right, let's keep the
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  interview train going. Let's see who we got next here.
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  Why don't you introduce yourself?
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  We got we actually have a 2 firm this one.
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  Introduce yourself to what track club you're here with and we'll
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  go from there. Phillip Williams, Team All Star,
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  Dallas, TX. Dallas Coach Nation Team All
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  Stars, DeSoto, Texas the same track club.
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  Same track club. Now I, you know, I'm not the
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  greatest person in the world with track and field, but I know
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  Texas literally and figuratively brings the heat.
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  What are you doing here in Eugene?
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  What's got you excited here on day one of Nike Outdoor
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  Nationals? Day one in Eugene we have
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  Kennedy Jackson out of DeSoto, Texas running 100 for the
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  freshman group. Right now she's sitting in 3rd
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  going into the finals with the 11/7 I believe it is.
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  A freshman 11/7, You know what they call that in other states?
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  State champ. I mean, holy cow.
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  Oh, yes, Sir. Yes, Sir, yes, Sir.
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  What? About you.
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  What's got you here? Yes, overall we have like a lot
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  of good quality athletes that we're here for.
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  Diario Porter Moore jump 57 for indoors.
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  Kerrigan McEwen is another eighth grade girl.
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  She ran 59 one Albany Brumsey around 101.5 in the 400 meter
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  hurdles. So overall we we're pretty
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  loaded, you know, and we're young.
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  Why is it, you know, I was talking about Texas and you
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  know, of course there's been, there's at least one, maybe 210
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  flat, sub 10 flat guys. I mean, 1016 I think was second.
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  Yeah, yeah. 10/6, 10:16 and you're in second.
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  I mean, what in the world's going on here?
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  Why do you think, You know, as we look around all the other
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  States and there's some great states, right, California,
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  Florida, etcetera, Illinois, where we're from, there's some
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  great kids, but Texas just seems to have just another notch about
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  what? What is it?
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  What? Why Texas?
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  I I think it's a good weather and a good training because we
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  do everything step by step and we take care of the little stuff
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  so you can get better. And it's not a lot of egos in
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  Texas like people think there are.
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  It's not. Is that true?
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  Because I know some guys from Texas and they rightfully have
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  some egos. I believe Texas is so big,
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  especially in our area. You have a lot of great teams in
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  different cities. We compete against each other,
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  but when we come to meets like this, we're determined to whip
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  up on other states by bringing some of our top athletes
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  together to do that. So I have attended and hosted an
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  MC, the Texas Track and Field Coaches Association winter, you
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  know, the January meeting many, many years now, great people.
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  And you know, that's actually, that was a good correction you
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  gave me when I said I've known some guys with some egos.
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  You're right though, when it's comes out of state, it is.
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  It's Texas versus the world. Yeah, in state we have small
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  egos, but because we know, hey, they might see each other every
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  week going to the state track meet.
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  So hey, I got to bring my A game and not my CAB game and then
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  hey, I might not be on the podium.
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  Well, gentlemen, thank you so much for being here.
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  We're so grateful that you are track coaches and track clubs.
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  I mean, it's really vital for our sport and we're happy to see
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  you here in in Eugene, OR. I'm I coach at Dallas Carter,
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  the world greatest high school at Secure Richardson School.
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  And my name is Phillip Williams, the founder of Team All Star,
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  and our goal is to get the kids the opportunity who don't have
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  the funds to run and have fun. Love it, guys, from all the
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  athletes and parents and from us as a equipment manufacturer,
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  we're just totally grateful that that's your your life work
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  there. I do appreciate it.
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  Thank you, guys. All right, the hits keep coming
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  here. Let's go straight to our next
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  interview here. Coach, won't you introduce
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  yourself and tell us who you're representing this weekend?
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  Hi, I'm Andy Flaum. I'm the coach for the Menlo
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  Atherton Athletics Club based out of Northern California.
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  I think I've met and it's just a one and we're only like 2 hours
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  in. I think I've met maybe 60
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  coaches so far and I bet you 59 of them are from California.
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  Does California just is this the whole West Coast thing?
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  Maybe, although I noticed that our in the relays we're in, it's
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  like 6 out of 36 teams across the heats are from California.
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  So we actually, you know, maybe not dominating once the meet
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  gets further along. Yeah, well, you guys dominate.
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  It's one of our top states, that's for sure.
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  No worries. What's up?
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  Yeah, Carmen, she saw that distance over there.
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  Yeah. You gave that away?
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  Yeah. Someone took it.
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  Yeah, that was somebody could take that.
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  I got another one. Yeah, I don't.
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  I have one. That school, he's got nothing.
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  Yeah. Five men in the NFL.
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  Oh, yeah, I know. I know her well.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Yeah, Yeah. I'll get her taken care of.
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  Yeah, I will. Yeah, I'll get her taken care
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  of. I'll figure something out.
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  Yeah. Thank you, boss.
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  And So what you got going on here?
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  What, what? What events and what kids?
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  We've got kids in the four by mile 4 by 800, boys and girls 4
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  by 404 by 100, so a lot of relays.
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  And we've got a hurdler, a girl who's hurdling in the 100
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  hurdles and the 400 hurdles. You know there's not an
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  unpopular opinion that maybe track and field should be all
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  relays. Well, our team does a good,
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  enjoys them and it's a great way to get more kids involved,
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  especially at a meet like this. Bring some kids who otherwise,
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  you know, wouldn't be able to get into an individual event,
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  but as a team they run strongly. And it's, it really embodies the
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  real true team spirit of, of track and field as well.
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  And why? And maybe it's obvious because
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  you're from California. So it's maybe, maybe easier, not
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  easy travel. Why here in Eugene for Hayward
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  Field versus, you know the other options that you have out there?
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  We do get some great options in California, some of the meets,
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  what happened there, the high school meats and other meats
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  that you can get into as a high schooler.
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  But this is unique. It's, you know, unparalleled to
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  be able to be here at Hayward Field.
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  And we get to take kids who are maybe a senior who's finishing
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  their career. This is the capstone on their
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  career. And we get kids who are up and
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  coming and they get a taste of what it could be like to do
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  bigger things than just the meats we get right around us on
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  a daily basis. That's been a common
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  conversation of like helping kids see that whether you're the
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  best in your state or not. But hey, there is a a much
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  bigger world for track and field, and guess what, you can
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  compete as well. And it's exciting for them to
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  see, you know, last week and CA as were being held right here.
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  You know, other years it's been the Olympic trials right after
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  this happens. And so they get they have an
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  image of this track and of what goes on here.
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  And to be able to step into it themselves is a special and
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  inspiring experience. You're, I love that imagery of
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  just, you know what we had here last week with Insta AA
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  championships and these kids are running the same lanes, same
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  hurdles, same pits, same relays. It's, it's quite amazing.
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  Andy, thank you so much. We're grateful for you being a
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  track coach. You know, I'll say it a million
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  times and I mean it every single one.
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  If you don't do what you do, we can't do what we do.
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  So we're truly grateful for you all.
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  Right. Thank you very much, Mike.
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  Appreciate it. All right, let's move on to our
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  next interview. Here, why don't we introduce
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  yourself and tell us who you're representing?
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  Hi, my name is Tanya. I'm with the team All Stars.
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  We come here from Dallas, TX and we bought a good little batch of
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  kids here at least that's been excelling there and we wanted to
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  come here and let them see how the big stage look.
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  Now we had a couple of of your cohorts earlier in today's
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  episode. How do you fit in with those
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  two? They were actually very cordial,
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  very good. They they behave themselves.
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  How do you fit in with that group?
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  We. Fit in great with the one that's
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  with AP Rich. She's a former the Nitro and we
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  all ran together. And the third place is Action
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  All Star. Is that right?
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  That's that, That's right. We brought the heat from Texas.
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  That year we talked a lot about that, about the, you know, Texas
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  and you guys, it's Texas versus the world.
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  What's got you most excited? You know, this is a long meet,
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  it's four days and you know, every meet, every heat, every
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  race, every jump is just the top of the top around here.
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  What's got you excited about this week?
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  I'm very excited because everything here is beautiful, is
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  well organized and the and the kids get to come and see
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  something different and see what's to offer if they continue
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  to work hard, what they can look forward to.
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  That's been a kind of a theme with a lot of coaches is
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  exposing kids that, you know, whether you dominate or don't
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  dominate your area, the area is much bigger than you think and
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  there are other kids and you know what you could fit in here.
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  That's. Right, yes.
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  And that's the motto that I give them.
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  They put their pants on just like you.
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  You could you go out there and you work hard.
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  You can do the same thing that they can do.
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  And your pain is only your weakness that's coming out.
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  So I want you to continue to work hard and work through that
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  pain, and you're going to get there.
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  I might have been a better track athlete if you were my coach,
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  and I love my coaches, but I might have, I might have been
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  able to get a little extra step there.
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  Tonya, thank you so much for being here.
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  This is day one of Nike Outdoor Nationals and USATF Under 20
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  U20, and we're just exciting. We're so grateful for you being
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  a track coach because if you don't do what you do, I don't
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  get to do it. I do.
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  So thank you so much. Thank you too, and we look
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  forward to visiting with you again.
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  Absolutely. Thank you, Tanya.
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  All right here for our next interview.
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  This is going to be our first. This is our first college coach
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  here on day one of the Nike Outdoor National Championships
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  USATF U20 meet here. So I'm going to start by asking
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  you introduce yourself and what college are you at?
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  Yeah, my name is Tyler Burdorf. I coach the throws at the
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  University of Maryland. So this is the Nike Outdoor
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  National High School Championships and it is U20.
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  So I know there's, you know, there's some college kids that
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  are under 20. What are you?
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  What are you doing here? Yeah, so got a freshman on the
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  guys side through the hammer this morning in EU 20
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  Championships. Didn't go our way, but but
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  that's OK. It's still a good experience for
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  him. He's competed out here before in
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  some of the USATF, the Junior Olympic meets, and so it's kind
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  of cool for him to come back. His dad was out here and then
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  I'm sticking around. They're leaving tomorrow and I'm
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  going to stick around and do some recruiting at Nike.
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  First time being out here for the Nike meet.
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  Normally stick around a little bit more local and Philly for
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  the New Balance meet, but yeah, I'm excited for it.
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  Well, thank you for saving me the follow up question of how
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  the kid did. I'm sorry it didn't go your way,
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  but I'm but I'm curious because, you know, we were here last week
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  for NCAA's and you know what a it's just a crazy me to to
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  qualify for etcetera. Is a kid who so that kids kind
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  of specifically is a kid who qualifies for the U20.
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  Was that kid at NCAA's or no? No, no.
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  And actually he didn't even make first round.
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  Yeah, so last year had another girl in the discus here.
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  She did qualify for first round last year, but I think she
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  finished 19th at first round. So she didn't make it out to to
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  NCAA's. And then yeah, this year even, I
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  guess worse, he didn't even make first round.
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  I think he was something like 20, maybe 30th at Big 10 out
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  here. And but it's still a huge
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  opportunity for him to come out here and and perform or try to
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  perform with with these guys. And also like, good for him to
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  know like, hey, you know, you might have been 30th or
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  something at Big 10. You might not have made the NCAA
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  first round meet, but you're still one of the best in your
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  age group. And so you got you got a lot of
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  potential and you got a lot of big things coming.
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  But yeah, just a a good experience for him and a good
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  way to cap his his freshman campaign that.
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  That that's what I was thinking. It was less about him and his
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  athletic, but he's obviously a study.
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  He's here for U20. That's not everybody doesn't
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  make that meet. And so that he didn't even you
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  know, if he didn't make incident Blaze, that's one thing because
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  again, it's crazy to make it, as you well know, didn't even make
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  first rounds. Again, I think that just speaks
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  to the quality of the NCAA coaching and the athletes like
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  that. That amazes me.
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  And that he was like, you know, 20-30, whatever in Big 10, which
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  that's become a that's not even a conference meet.
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  That is just a a mini nationals is what Big 10 and ACCS and SCCS
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  have all become. So so I'm going to ask you a
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  question that I know you can't answer.
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  So who who are you recruiting? Who are you looking at?
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  Yeah, it's funny. I think like you talked about
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  the NCAA and where we're going and you know, the performances
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  are so high and you still have a a kid out here who is one of the
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  best U20 but can't make NCAA first round in this first year.
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  And so, yeah, I'm interested. I'm looking at juniors,
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  obviously, you know, watching seniors, but most of them are
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  kind of already done, but looking at juniors to try and
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  try and see some talent. Always keeping an eye out for
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  sophomores. So I get get names on the radar.
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  I think these are big needs for me to to see names, see people
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  move, see how they move, how they throw.
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  And then, you know, it's an easy one.
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  If they're a young kid, I can follow them on Instagram.
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  And then hey, I get to see you for the next couple years until
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  you get to that point where you're looking to start your
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  recruiting process. And so no names in specific, but
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  I'm excited to be out here and kind of see some of the throws
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  and it's cool with the the two different comps, you know, being
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  able to see some people and, and I I don't get a lot of chances
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  to see people from the West side, West Coast.
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  And so this is this will be good for me there.
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  I think we can. We can pull some people over to
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  the East Coast. Last question, specifically with
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  the hammer, like when you're recruiting meets like this and
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  there's very few opportunities for you to see high schoolers
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  who throw the hammer for many reasons.
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  We don't have it in any state except for one.
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  Are you still in in When I say are you, I'm talking general.
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  Maybe you know your peers and other college coaches.
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  Are you, are you recruiting the majority of your hammer throwers
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  who have experience or are you still teaching from square one,
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  day one in the hammer specifically because again, it's
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  so underdeveloped here in America.
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  However, you know, we're better today in the hammer high school
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  youth development than we were yesterday.
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  So what's the majority of your incoming hammer throwers?
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  Are they newbies you're teaching from day one, or do they
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  actually have some experience? Yeah, I think it's a a mix of
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  both. I, we have a guy who's our
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  school record holder who was a Rhode Island guy.
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  So he threw in high school, but you're throwing the 25 LB
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  weight, you're throwing a 12 LB hammer.
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  And so a little bit different there.
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  And then Finn, the guy that I have had here, he was mainly A
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  discus shot put out of Indiana, but he had an ugly two turn that
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  he had picked up doing Jo stuff. And you know, I think he
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  actually sent me a video of one of those Jo meets here and I was
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  able to see how he moved and it was like there's something there
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  in the hammer. And it was cool to see him then
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  progress from throwing an ugly two turn.
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  We added two turns to that and he 4 turned all year and and did
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  great for us so. You mentioned Rhode Island.
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  I wonder how many colleges, school records are held by Rhode
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  Island natives. You know, that's a lot because
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  they've had a long, long tradition there.
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  And then it's interesting you mentioned Indiana there.
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  There's a a swelling in Indiana for the hammer throw as well.
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  So I appreciate that. So Tyler, thank you so much for
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  being here, man. I hope you get every kid that
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  you want and they all become terps for you there.
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  OK, Earlier in the podcast, I told you it's Thursday.
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  It's day one here in Eugene, OR and that means that it's MF
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  Athletics day. We're partnering with our great
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  partners close to Rhode Island from our last guest there, but
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  definitely out in New England and just doing a fantastic job.
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  And so here I have. Well, I'll let you introduce her
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  because I don't know what last name she actually goes by these
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  days. Well, let's let's find out.
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  I'm Lisa Browning with the new last name and I work for MF
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  Athletic. And Lisa, how long have you been
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  with MF? I mean, what I'm amazed by you
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  guys is you guys have long tenured people.
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  I think that says a lot about your leadership in your company.
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  How long have you been there? So I'm the quote baby of the
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  group and I've been there now for seven years.
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  I started in 2018, yeah. That's that's awesome.
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  And I love that, that you're the that you're the young in there.
• 17:34
  Yeah, I I really do love that. And all the MF guys and gals
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  typically come from the track background.
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  They had some kind of background there, whether they were
• 17:43
  athletes or coaches. What was your background?
• 17:45
  Yeah. So I competed as an athlete,
• 17:48
  high school, college, post collegiate, and I've coached
• 17:52
  high school, done a little, middle school, college, I've
• 17:55
  done everything you could I guess.
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  And you also threw the hammer pretty well I believe.
• 18:02
  Yes, so I threw the hammer after college.
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  What's funny is when I actually started with MF athletic, I was
• 18:09
  in a retirement phase. So I actually was not competing.
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  I was coaching only hadn't competed for a couple of years.
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  And then while I worked for the company during the pandemic is
• 18:19
  actually when I did my my second journey of competing post
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  collegiately and had my magical few years of.
• 18:27
  And if any of that sounded interesting, you can actually
• 18:30
  look on right here the Guild Connections podcast.
• 18:32
  We actually, at least as an alum of the Guild Connections
• 18:34
  podcast. And so I think we were an hour
• 18:37
  and a half, you know, we go pretty deep.
• 18:39
  So that small snippet of her journey, you can go hear the
• 18:42
  whole journey and trust me, it's worth it.
• 18:44
  Her journey was really important.
• 18:46
  It's really kind of amazing and cool to see where you are today
• 18:49
  based on, you know, where where you started.
• 18:51
  You know, it's it's interesting. MF Athletics, one of our top
• 18:54
  dealers around and you guys represent the Gill athletic
• 18:57
  brand extremely well. Super proud and honored to have
• 19:00
  you guys represent us. What's it mean?
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  And you know, maybe this is like some kind of, as the guy from
• 19:04
  Gill, this is some kind of like, you know, oh magical question.
• 19:07
  Like because we're, you know, we're, we're amazing people and
• 19:10
  all that kind of stuff. But what's it like selling Gill
• 19:12
  equipment? How do you like the partnership?
• 19:14
  And you know, if anything goes wrong here, I'm just going to
• 19:16
  turn this into your boss. It's great to be partnered with
• 19:20
  a company that sells good products and that has such a big
• 19:22
  name brand. Our company's been around for 60
• 19:24
  years, but we didn't sell big equipment till more, I would say
• 19:28
  recent, which is still decades, but partnering with another
• 19:30
  company that's been around 1918, I believe is the day.
• 19:34
  Hey, hey, I got my facts down. I didn't even prep for this.
• 19:39
  And you know, just having that big name brand and being able to
• 19:42
  offer something quality that coaches know and expect, it's
• 19:46
  awesome. I imagine if I asked my team
• 19:50
  what year we were founded, I don't know that we bat 100% they
• 19:53
  knew 1918. So that's that's super cool.
• 19:56
  I will turn that into your boss and say, you know what, this is
• 19:58
  a advocate for us here. Well, we're super proud of MF
• 20:02
  athletics. We love partnering with you here
• 20:03
  at Nike Outdoor Nationals and other, you know, we do other
• 20:06
  state clinics together and socials at NCAA's and things
• 20:09
  like that. We're just super proud to call
• 20:11
  your partner and call you guys friends and just just so
• 20:13
  thankful for you. So thanks for being here today
• 20:15
  and we can't wait till what what comes next?
• 20:20
  All right, that's going to do it here for day number one from the
• 20:22
  Nike Outdoor National Championships, USATF U20
• 20:25
  Championships. What an absolute gorgeous day we
• 20:29
  had here. Beautiful weather in Eugene, OR,
• 20:31
  lots of fast times, lots of great distance races and field
• 20:35
  events that we got to watch. And just a bunch of amazing
• 20:38
  track and field coaches from all levels, Middle school, high
• 20:41
  school, college, club, Everybody was here in Eugene, OR.
• 20:46
  Just so thankful for MF Athletic.
• 20:48
  Thanks for partnering with us here on Thursday with the
• 20:50
  coaches. Hospitality area.
• 20:52
  We had great burgers. Thank you so much, Nico.
• 20:54
  And the catering service, They did an amazing job and we got to
• 20:58
  give away a lot of free stuff today and we're going to do it
• 21:00
  again tomorrow. So I hope you join us tomorrow,
• 21:02
  Friday, for day #2 right here in Eugenia, Oregon.