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#7: Gill1918 presents Mike Harvey "Meet Management as a Track Coach" · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Now let's get into today's topic.
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  Aloha, Mike, thank you so much for the opportunity to provide
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  input to the Gill 1918 Podcast series for Coaches by coaches.
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  I'm honored at the opportunity being here in Hawaii.
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  Hello, Hawaii, to be exact. Bit about me, I'm coach Mike
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  Harvey. I coach Marinol High School,
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  which is a small private school here in Honolulu, and I coach in
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  the head coach, director, the president, the janitor, the
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  everything and all between for Spartan Track Club Hawaii here
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  in Honolulu, the most competitive track and field
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  club, youth club in the state. So I'm very proud of that.
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  I think my subject would be certainly on coaches, coaches
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  meat management, track and field management, Meat management
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  being as I'm both the head coach of track and field for track
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  Marinol, but also for Spartan Track Club Hawaii, we host our
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  own meets. So with that there's there's
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  more that goes into it than just getting the athletes ready.
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  From the standpoint of training, there is meet entries, that's
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  1-2, There's all of the antics that are associated with heating
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  and seating and assignments, lane assignments and such.
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  And for the most part you got to let the software do that.
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  But in terms of just understanding that process and
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  being knowledgeable of those those tools, I am pretty well
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  versed here in the state of Hawaii.
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  In fact, I've implemented and introduced to the ILH with a
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  private school sector of the schools here in Hawaii, ours
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  particular on Oahu, the leveraging the athletic.net run
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  meet software, which is in my opinion, so easy to use, very
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  intuitive if you have a little bit of knowledge of track and
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  field and and if you don't, you can gain a lot of knowledge
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  using and leveraging that that software.
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  So we use run meet to do our meets.
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  We use Eagle eye timing system, which if coaches are looking to
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  you know, you got invest in these, you know, these massive
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  links cameras and and software. Run meet is a very economical
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  and of easy to use way of hosting and performing high
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  performance meets. It's FAT certified, it's
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  integrated with athletic.net. And if you all go back and look
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  at some of our history and Spartan track Club Hawaii and
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  also USATF from this past season, we hosted all our meets
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  using Eagle Eye camera system along with run meet through the
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  results of athletic.net. So I highly recommend coaches to
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  become educated in terms of meat management and don't just turn
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  it over to the costly agreements to timing systems, excuse me,
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  timing companies. They the as I mentioned, the
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  meat management software allows you to do several of the things
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  to host big meets and as a coach it it, it is highly recommended
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  for me to understand that that part.
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  So what what we do for Spartan Track Club, why we are blessed,
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  extremely blessed with our relationship that we have with
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  the one of the local high schools here in Honolulu,
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  McKinley High School and the AD Bob Morricone.
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  I'm telling you, there's no bigger fan in my opinion, to
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  sport and particularly youth sports, youth athletics and
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  particularly even more so to youth track and field.
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  And Bob Morricone, he has been a supporter of ours since we began
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  working with him in 2020-2021, 2022, just after COVID.
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  And he supports us in more ways than you know, we're so grateful
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  for him. So we, we try to host meets
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  throughout the year, right? Hawaii is one of the, the, you
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  know, the most wonderful climates in the, the world.
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  So we can host meets year round. So often times I'll hold a meet,
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  you know, in October, November and December.
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  And, and for those that are listening, if you're interested
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  in we host, this will be our fifth year, I believe 4th year,
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  fourth year going in our fourth year of.
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  We host what we call the last meet on earth and it's a track
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  and field meet that is hosted December 31st of each year.
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  Doesn't matter the day, December 31st, New Year's Eve, if that's
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  a Sunday or Saturday or Monday or Tuesday, doesn't matter.
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  We hosted on that day. And it's an opportunity to get
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  the last bit of results into athletic.net.
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  So it's kind of a novelty thing, but it's a, it's a very fun
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  meet. We, we usually rank all of our
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  athletes into one division called open and we see everybody
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  by by time or by performance. So if you're an 8 year old and
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  you're fast enough to run against an 18 year old, then
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  bring the smoke. If you're a 18 year old and
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  you're not fast enough to run against the 18 year olds, then
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  you know your, your time will tell your, your, your seat.
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  So I, I enjoy hosting meets. I, I, I am it, it, it gives me
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  peace. It gives me a sense of, of
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  accomplishment. I think as, as coaches, we are
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  looking at where you know, the, the input input, or rather the,
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  the effect that we have on our athletes.
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  And, and just for me, being able to do that here in Hawaii and
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  have folks from the mainland and even neighbor neighbor island
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  come over and participate in these meets.
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  It's, it's, it's, it's everything for me.
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  And, and not only just, you know, everything for me from the
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  outside athletes. I mean, my, my daughter, who is
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  a Senior High School Marinol, she's one of the top track and
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  field athletes and has been the last four years of her her
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  competition and she is headed to the University of Portland for
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  track and field. So what a, what a tremendous
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  blessing that she's achieved that.
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  And I'm so looking forward to helping support that program in
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  any way I can here in Hawaii. Go pilots.
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  So she'll be running at the University of Portland next
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  year, next fall. And we are wrapping up her
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  senior season in fantastic fashion.
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  She's #2 in the state for the 100, the 200 and the 400.
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  And the one of the awesome things is she's number two
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  behind her club teammate who lives on the Big Island.
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  So yeah, so getting back to one of the reasons of, excuse me,
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  the main reason is, is this meat management, right?
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  I highly recommend all coaches look into understanding not just
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  how you input your entries into theathletic.net or the the other
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  entry systems, but the internal workings of meat and clerking
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  and heating. I think if more coaches under
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  really understood how that happens, I do not believe that
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  any coach listening to this particular podcast would, would
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  ever complain about the results coming from the tent because
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  tent life it is, it's stressful life because it is, is so
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  critical that results are accurate and they're deliberate
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  in a, in a timely fashion. And there is some nervousness in
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  the tent If if you miss that gun signal or the, or the signal
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  doesn't get transferred from the, the gun to the receiver to
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  start the computer telling you it is crucial.
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  So I, I highly recommend that all the coaches consider looking
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  into meat management software, certainly run meat.
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  It's my number one recommended one looking to Eagle Eye
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  software, timing cameras, the system, you can get a very good
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  system for well under $10,000. And, you know, educating
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  yourself and not only just yourself, but your coaches and
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  your athletes of, of the process of certainly first call, second
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  call, final call and, and all those things.
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  So I'm, I'm grateful again for this opportunity to, to have
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  here, Mike, in this platform that you provide, you do so much
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  for the, the track and field community.
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  It is it, it, it goes without mentioning that you certainly
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  are appreciated in my mind and my eyes and my heart.
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  So thank you so much for the opportunity and signing off.
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  If you guys would like to reach out to me, you can reach me at
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  spartantrackclubhawaii@gmail.com. That's our e-mail address or you
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  can follow us on Instagram at Track Hawaii, TRACKHAWA.
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  I I and the same is on Twitter track at Track Hawaii.
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  You can also visit our website spartantrackclubhawaii.org.
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  Thanks again, Aloha. Hey gang, Mike Cunningham here.
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