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#162: Gill1918 presents Track Tribe LIVE: (Part 3) "Building Hurdlers" with Kenny Anderson hosted by Kyle Jones · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Now let's get into today's topic.
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  You know, I was talking to a coach out West and I'll, I don't
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  know if it's OK to mention the coach's name.
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  I think I'll leave, leave the person nameless for now.
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  But this coach said just because you hit a mark one time doesn't
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  mean that that's, you know, you, you, you, you, you are, excuse
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  me, qualify for that scholarship.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  What's your average right? And if you hit that mark more
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  than one time, then you know, if you hit it once, then that's
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  that gets an eyeball. If you hit it more than once and
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  several times, and that gets you some conversations.
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  Consistency point. You got to talk.
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  Consistency so people you know student athletes will reach out
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  and this is another don't do not lie about your times or your.
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  Marks. Do not do that because the first
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  thing we're going to do, we're going to look you up on
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  milesplitathletic.net and if you lying about your times, the
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  e-mail is getting deleted because if you gonna lie about
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  that, you're gonna lie about something else.
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  Yeah. So don't lie.
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  Just be be be upfront. You know, these are my times
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  because we don't look. It's it's although it's it's all
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  out there. So we don't look.
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  But to your point, the consistency is, you know,
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  important. You know, just just for example,
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  we're talking about hurdles. I'm going to use a male hurdler.
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  If you are, I get an e-mail coaching.
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  I ran 14-5 and the one 10s, but you ran 1451 time and everything
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  else is like 15515 four. I'm a think that 14 five is a
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  fluke. Right.
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  It was hand time or the wind was at 5.6 or something like that.
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  It is because you only ran out, you know, one time that you're,
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  you're a 15415 five hurdle. You're not a 14-5 hurdle.
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  So show your consistency, be able to show your consistency.
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  And then it goes back to the point we were talking about
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  earlier. Show what else you can do.
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  So maybe maybe you are A155 hurdler, but I'm A155 hurdler
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  that can high jump. I'm A155 hurdler that maybe can
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  long jump or triple jump or I can run the 400.
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  Like show your, show your versatility, you know, show what
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  else you can do. Because maybe that 15 five
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  doesn't get you the money that you want just running 15 five,
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  but you can do XY and Z and now that 15 five looks more
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  attractive because, OK, they're an athlete, they're A-Team
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  player. They can do this, this, this,
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  they can, they can help me this, there's some development here.
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  But if I look online and all I see is 15-5 and that's all you
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  do, I got me personally. I'm not spending money on that,
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  right? And you what you're saying, it
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  resonates. And the reason why it resonates
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  is because I'm getting this echo across the country.
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  And one of the things I love to do is I talk to the college
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  coaches because I want to find out about their program.
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  Because as a high school coach, it's my duty to ensure that
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  there's a fit for the athletes that I coach with the programs
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  that they want to go to. And I think there's a disservice
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  on a lot of coaches that don't investigate what those programs
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  are great. They're not Every elite program
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  has elite coaching. Sometimes they just have fast
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  kids and terrible cultures, right?
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  I've seen that too. And then I've also seen some
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  really great cultures and kids really developing over time.
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  So you really need to know who the coaches are and try to talk
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  to them and find out about them and find out about their
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  program. But also for the athlete out
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  there, stop being entitled. Right.
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  You got to get your butt up and and swallow your pride and go
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  make a phone call. Nobody's you know in this world.
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  Social media people are so used to them engaging with them.
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  Hey, come find me if you don't go pick up.
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  You know what? Let me get off my sofa.
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  Let me be quiet. See, Coach, I'm blaming you.
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  This is your fault somehow. Somewhere.
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  All good, all good. I'm joking.
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  OK, So what are some of the recruiting standards?
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  Because I know that's one of the questions.
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  I know Coach Billers called you out on that earlier and was
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  like, hey, we want to know your recruiting standards, right?
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  And I'm messing with you, coach, But no.
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  So what are what are some of the things that you look for in an
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  athlete? I know you talked about the
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  attitude and the the the wannabe elite mentality, but as far as
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  the times are concerned, what gets the conversation going for
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  you at CMU? Oh, so Bill did call me out on
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  recruiting standards and it's it's crazy because although like
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  I have recruiting standards, I don't at the same time.
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  And the reason the reason I don't is because I look for,
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  will they be a great fit for us here?
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  Like every, everybody can't handle what we do at Central
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  Methodist. Everybody can't handle these
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  small town. So I look for, yes, you have to
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  have a certain skill level, but that skill level can, can vary.
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  I've I've had a 15 in our conference right now.
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  Give you an example. I'm going to use the lady short
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  hurdles. You basically have to be running
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  fourteen 14714 eight to make our final at nationals, like 14-O139
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  to make nationals and to be very competitive in AI.
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  I've seen 15515 six hurdlers and said to myself, I need that and
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  I need that because there's untapped potential.
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  There's a skill set. They might just be starting out
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  and they don't know what they're doing yet, but I feel like if
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  they come in a program in this environment, they're going to be
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  successful. So like, that's why I say I
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  have, you know, recruiting standards, but I don't as well
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  because I can see some somebody and be like, OK, and this type
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  of training with this training group, they're going to blossom.
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  I'll give you example. There was a young lady that came
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  in, she transferred in. She was a freshman at another
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  university last year, ran 59. But the first time I saw her, I
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  was like, who is that? And it worked out to where?
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  And she ended up coming, you know, she saw what we, you know,
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  we're doing and how we were developing 400 runners this
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  weekend. She split 56, too.
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  We've only had her for four months, five months.
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  But it's. This is indoor, so I'm just
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  like, it's more so like it's the mindset.
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  It's, it's, you know, makeup what I see.
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  But if I had to coach Bill, if this is for you, if I, if I had
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  to had to put some numbers down, you know, ladies 12525558I bet
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  that that's what I, you know, and then a hurdler, if you can
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  hurdle and jump or hurdle and Sprint, come on.
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  Yeah, come on, 'cause I, I can get you right?
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  And I, and I'm, I'm not trying to toot my own horn.
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  I'm, I'm, you know, still got a lot to learn.
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  But if you can hurdle and Sprint, hurdle and jump, come to
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  CMUI feel I feel like I'm what? What's buddy name from Ship
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  Knight, You know, come, come come, come to death row, come to
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  CMU. You don't want coaches days and
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  all these videos, right? Come on, but but they're crazy.
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  But I'm I'm the college that that do be dancing too though
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  so. Now you know what though?
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  But that that's what that's what makes the connection, right?
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  Because you already talked about communication, trust and family,
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  right? And if you're unwilling to
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  engage with your kids, and I think we talked about this
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  online for a second, that whole language of Gen. alpha is just
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  interesting, right? Between Gen.
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  Z and Gen. Alpha.
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  It's like, what are you saying sometimes, but that's what
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  that's what that's what stands out for athletes.
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  And if you haven't had that experience with the coach yet,
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  then maybe you want to look at CM us program, Y'all right,
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  because you know, they got the sauce, they got the juice there
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  and you know, I would I wouldn't have coaches on this on these
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  live sessions that didn't know what they were doing or I felt
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  like they had low integrity and we're out for to hurt people or
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  out for just themselves. The reason why we pulled all
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  this stuff together is so that we can, you know, talk with each
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  other, cut through the noise, cut through all the fluff, as
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  ChatGPT calls it, right. I can't stand that word,
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  Charlie. No fluff, right?
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  But to get to the real within track and field, because there
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  is so much passion out here right now that is being
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  diminished because of poor coaching, poor mentorship, poor
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  leadership, poor teaching and poor teammates.
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  I think it's important that we find the people who really love
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  this sport get them together so that we don't feel so segregated
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  or alone, right? Because the people who love this
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  sport are going to be the ones that carry that passion into the
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  next generation. And they need to see that, that,
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  you know, track and field doesn't get a lot of love
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  sometimes. But man, there are people who
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  love this sport and I mean downright love it.
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  Obviously Coach Kenny's one of them.
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  I'm one of them, man. This is the passion for me.
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  And I, you know, talking to my wife and I told her sometimes I
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  just get teary eyed because I get so emotional about this
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  because I absolutely, 100% love this sport with every fiber in
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  my being. And I love being around people
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  like yourself, coach, who you could tell, I just love this
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  thing, man. I wouldn't trade it for the
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  world. And I love my athletes and I
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  love the process, right? You can tell what somebody loves
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  the process. All right, coach.
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  So I know we're kind of, I don't want to overcook your grits and
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  I don't want to overcook our viewers grits out there as well
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  because I know they're listening in and they may have a lot more
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  questions about hurdling and technique and sustainability.
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  And that gives us an opportunity for a Part 2 and maybe a Coach's
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  Corner where we can get together and talk.
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  I have two final questions for you and then we're going to wrap
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  this thing up. The first one is what is your
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  absolute favorite memory or thing I can say?
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  What's your favorite story about track and field?
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  A favorite memory about track and field.
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  Doesn't matter when, where or how it happened.
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  What is your favorite memory of track and field?
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  Favorite memory of track and field?
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  So I have two. That's hard.
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  I have a couple, I think 1. So I ran AAU track and we were,
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  when I was 11 years old, we were the AAU Junior Olympic champions
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  in the four by one. And then you know, like at the
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  time, Tony Baselli, he was a offensive for the Jaguars.
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  I'm originally from Jacksonville.
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  So he came and, you know, presented, you know, some medals
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  to us and I, I like that was cool to me.
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  And then two other memories, favorite memories.
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  The first time we won a championship at CMU.
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  So like that was the first, you know, championship in school
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  history and my dad got to see it.
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  So so he was there for that. And then I think the third time
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  or the third favorite memory. So I'm I'm blessed to have we're
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  able, you know, this is a private school.
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  I know like some state schools, you have to keep like church and
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  school separated, right. So we have the ability here to
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  where, you know, we're a Methodist school, but it's very,
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  you know, that verse as far as the nomination and stuff like
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  that. So I have about 15 student
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  athletes on the team that we all go to church together.
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  And so it's not just one moment, but I think we started doing it
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  last year. And since then, the experience
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  of not just those 15, but the entire team has shifted.
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  So like that moment and us, that connection has really changed my
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  outlook on a lot of things. And you know, like my purpose
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  for what it is that I'm doing, why I'm here in central as
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  central method is why, why I'm physically here right now.
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  So that that memory and it's still going like it hasn't
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  stopped yet. So that was like a real shift or
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  has been a real shift in my life that I'm very appreciative and
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  blessed to to speak on. That man, I love to hear that
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  again, it just goes back to what you said earlier, communication,
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  trust and family, right? You got to be able to talk to
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  each other and get real authentic with each other and be
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  able to tell each other the truth.
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  And that takes an immense amount of trust from the from the get
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  go. All right, because if you don't
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  have trust and nobody cares what you're saying, there's no real
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  connection and you you can't take on faith what a person
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  might be giving you and assume positive intent.
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  And then the family portion of it is I keep hearing it over and
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  over and over again. I don't know if anybody else is
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  hearing it, but I keep hearing it.
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  The people that you're, you're the people that you have your
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  people there, you know, the university people, your people,
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  your athletes and, and the, and the university's athletes.
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  You know, I say that kind of like comprehensively, right?
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  But the idea that you all come together and do things together
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  to make sure that you're not just successful athletically,
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  not just successful academically, but also that you
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  become a good human being. Right.
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  That you're productive, that you're a citizen of the world
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  and you become significant or impact me.
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  If you can't do great things, then do small things in a great
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  way, right? And that's the power behind what
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  I hear you saying. All right, coach, such a
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  powerful session here. How do people get in contact
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  with you or how do they follow you if they want to have follow
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  up with, you know, asking questions or want to talk to
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  you, want to get to know you, want to learn more about your
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  program? What's the best ways to get in
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  contact with you? Great question.
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  All right, so on Instagram at cut the check, that's I cut the
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  check and then Twitter, it's at Coach Kenny with two
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  underscores. But you know, I'd be typing cut
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  the check. I think that might come up.
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  I'll put my e-mail in the the chat, but it's
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  kr.anderson@centralmethodist.edu and my cell phone number
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  904-524-3987. Like I'm a, I'm a open book.
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  Everything that I I've learned, I've learned, you know, from
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  experience, I've learned from watching other people and I've
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  learned from mostly asking questions and not being afraid
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  to ask questions. So I know we didn't get maybe
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  into a lot of the detail on hurdle specifics, but you know,
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  I'm I'm in season. So, you know, take that, you
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  know, that I'm not focused on on my group.
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  But and if anybody has questions, you know, Instagram,
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  Twitter, reach out, text, e-mail, you know, and I, you
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  know, do my best to take time to, you know, talk about
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  whatever it is that you want to talk about.
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  It could be sprinting, it could be hurdling 400, you know,
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  whatever it whatever it is, whatever questions you have.
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  But Instagram at cut the check. I'm on Facebook.
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  Twitter is at Coach Kenny and then
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  kr.anderson@centralmethodist.edu is my e-mail all right?
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  There you have it y'all, and I just found out somebody did type
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  in the chat that I just sat there from Saint Louis.
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  Coach, coach, loose change. I see that since I'm from Saint
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  Louis, Matt runs a staple for indoor training apparently.
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  So apparently I need to get out more.
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  I'm I'm lost in the sauce. Coach man, I really appreciate
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  you listening. Also don't forget y'all, you can
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  also follow and find coach Kenny in the track tribe.
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  He's our and I, I use this term and he probably going to beat me
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  up a little bit for saying it, but the the hurdle guru.
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  I, I know he, I knew it. I knew it.
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  Don't beat me up. Listen, he's a he's a well
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  accomplished and a very knowledgeable coach.
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  And I, I use the term guru loosely because people tend to
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  use it as a connotation like, you know, all.
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  And I don't think that Kenny, coach Kenny approaches anything
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  in that manner. He has a humble spirit about him
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  or as they say, an humble spirit about him.
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  I was always constantly learning, willing to share any
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  question I've, I know I've ever had in our, in our interactions
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  that he's like, hey, no, this is what I see.
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  And he never says, no, you're stupid.
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  No, you're wrong. Not publicly anyway.
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  No, I'm joking. No, he never does that.
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  And he says, hey, this is what I do and this is what has worked
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  for us. I don't, I don't know that.
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  I don't know anybody who's ever said a bad word about him.
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  And if they did, they said it real privately and very, very
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  low because they probably get jumped.
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  Everybody loves Coach Kenny, man, including myself.
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  I really enjoy his company. I really enjoy learning from
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  him. And you know, I continue to
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  watch and see what he's doing and he's doing great things over
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  there at CMU. You heard his his his handles on
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  Instagram as well as Twitter. But you can also find them in
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  the track tribe in the on the school app SKOOL.
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  Just search for the track tribe again, I'm track coach Jones and
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  you know, just request membership.
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  We do screen because we don't want any spam in there.
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  We don't want any nonsense in there.
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  And I do moderate it for that. So if you come in here harassing
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  people, I will give you the steel toe of all steel toes.
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  We're not playing those games. We want to make sure that this
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  place is safe for not only coaches, but also parents and
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  athletes as well. So if you got questions or you
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  just want to learn about track and field or just want to be
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  around people because you love the sport, man, this is the
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  community for you. And that's what we're trying to
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  build here. Coach, any last words before we
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  skied out a lot of here as you head towards your mat runs?
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  We actually did some mat runs today and we were on like we got
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  this assault bike. We were on that today too.
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  But if you, if you sign up for school tonight, tomorrow I'm
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  dropping the hurdle calculator that I use touchdown times, 100
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  hurdles, 110 hurdles, 60 hurdles, 300 hurdles, 400
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  hurdles. So I need y'all to go subscribe
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  to school, get in and I'll get get approved.
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  All that 'cause I'm gonna drop some stuff tomorrow in the group
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  and the app so you can check that out.
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  And but at the end of the day, you know, coaches, you know,
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  learn close mouths don't don't get fed.
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  So try to learn as much as possible.
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  Culture, athletes, take care of your athletes.
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  Help your athletes to be great, great people.
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  And then everything else will take care of yourself.
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  And then athletes, if you're listening and I'll just work
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  hard, you know, pay attention to the little things, ask
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  questions, ask for feedback, become a student of the sport,
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  student of the craft. And then, you know, let's get
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  it. Let's let's, let's get it.
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  And also, if if you, if you're a senior, you know, it's time for
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  you to come earn your wings. You know, come earn your wings.
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  You guys better come earn your wings because I'm hoping I can
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  get a couple of these kids that we have on our senior roster to
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  see if it's a if it's a good fit.
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  First of all, if they want to come out that way, right.
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  But again, we just looking at some of the hurdlers and I'm
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  excited. This is one of my first years
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  coaching Hurley's. I've coached a lot of track and
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  field, don't get me wrong. So just full transparency.
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  I'm learning from him. But at the same time, I know
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  enough to get our kids to where they need to be.
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  And I understand Hurley period. But man, just the opportunity to
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  listen at the feet of someone who has produced so many great
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  hurdlers has been an amazing opportunity.
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  And again, the school app SKOOL and I just signed that.
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  I'm sorry. Well, not sorry, but it's my
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  mom's. My mom is an as an ASL
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  interpreter. Fun fact about me and I have, I
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  learned, I learned sign language, a little bit of sign
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  language, enough to have a conversation through sign
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  language dance back in the day. Don't tell anybody.
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  That's a fun fact. But I do want you guys to come
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  in and and connect with us, man. And, and if you got questions,
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  ask him. If you got stories, let's tell
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  him if you want some things you want to share.
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  But the most important thing right now is that you come in
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  and have fun and join the community.
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  And coach said he is going to drop the touchdown calculator.
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  I'm calling that right touchdown calculator.
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  People will come in with football terminal.
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  They going, they going football coach is going to jump on join
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  us now. I'm excited about that.
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  And I, I'm, I'm looking forward to using that because I, I've, I
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  had never thought about timing that particular piece of metric.
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  So I'm really excited about seeing the calculator myself.
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  But you can only get it in the in the track tribe.
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  Don't forget, come on in. That's free, No charge.
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  We, we, we try to share as much information as possible.
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  Coach, I cannot thank you enough.
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  This has been one of the most enjoyable conversations.
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  All of them been great, by the way, but this has been one of
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  the most enjoyable conversations the the that I've had and the,
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  and I'm really excited for where the track trap is going.
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  I'm really excited for where CMU is going with you at the helm
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  and leading the way. And you know, I'll do all I can
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  to make sure I support CMU and the, and the Eagles and, and
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  make sure that we get kids to come and earn their wings.
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  And coach, I want to thank you for spending some time with us.
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  I appreciate you because I know it's freezing cold out there.
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  And we've got Coach Cesar Morales saying you ain't lying
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  about those mat runs and come under your wings.
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  All right, Coach, we see you. We appreciate you.
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  That was a shout out. And I want to make sure that you
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  guys go check out CMU's information, check out their
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  program. And coach, thank you.
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  Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing
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  such valuable information. We're going to have to do a
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  Round 2 and I, I don't see no other way around.
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  We got to dig deeper into these hurdles and hopefully the
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  coaches will come connect. Y'all listen, this has been
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  another track try production coach Kenny Anderson, the GOAT
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  of the hurdles, the the guru of I.
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  I can't think of anything that rounds a guru.
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  So not a rapper. He's going to shake his head.
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  He's he'll say he's not the he's not a guru.
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  But I'll tell you what, man, he, he, what you can't deny him is
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  that he is a champion in his own right, not only for not only
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  literally as as a program, but also as a person for track and
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  field and for athletes, a champion for good human beings
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  and, and, and people who soft hearts.
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  And so we appreciate you, coach, and keep doing your thing.
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  Keep impacting because I'm telling you, if nobody else has
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  told you and throughout your life or even in the last few
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  days, you matter and what you do is impacting.
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  And a lot of people wouldn't be where they are if it wasn't for
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  you. And I want to thank you for
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  that. Thank you, I appreciate that and
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  and thank you for having me on. I enjoyed it.
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  We definitely got to we definitely got to do this again
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  because I want to get more into depth with, you know, the
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  hurdles and stuff like that. So looking forward to, to having
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  all so we can really dive in, dive into training and I'm have
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  some stuff repaired so we can look what what weeks look like,
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  how I progressed and you know, everything like that.
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  So let's let's schedule that so we can get on.
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  Hey, and I'm I'm with it. Listen, we can do a whole
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  coaches corner around it. Let's get some coaches who are
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  interested in learning this stuff and we can record it.
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  We can put it on live right here.
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  And then we just talk and have a good time.
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  Everybody grab their favorite beverage and we'll get to it.
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  Get your favorite snacks. So look forward to a new coaches
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  corner coming up and where you can kind of dig deeper into the
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  hurdles. Thank you so much again, Coach.
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  With that being said, y'all, this is Coach Jones or some
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  people going to track Coach Jones.
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  Coach Joe, call me anything, but don't call me late for dinner.
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  I appreciate y'all for tuning in.
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  And if you got questions, feel free to reach out to us
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  directly. Don't forget, check out the
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  Come join us, Come join the community and don't forget to
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  invite your friends. Don't come alone, all right?
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  Y'all, we out of here? It's it's almost 10:00 on the
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  East Coast, so I'm gonna let y'all get back to living your
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  life. And those of y'all in the
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  Midwest, man, please, for God's sake, get a blanket and stay
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  warm. We out of here Y'all Coach Jones
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  out. Hey gang, Mike Cunningham here.
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