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#190: Gill1918 Presents Aimee Day & Cindy Hausner "Part 3 Training Wheelchair Athletes" · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Now let's get into today's topic.
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  And if you can get your school to pay for a dedicated
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  wheelchair coach, it'd be great because we had another
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  wheelchair athlete years ago and was our head coach helping try
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  to coach everybody and then helping a wheelchair athlete,
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  you know, transferring equipment.
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  From. High school to different wave
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  meets and whatnot, being there for the athlete to help them out
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  and whatnot. So.
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  It's. Been great to have a dedicated
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  person for. I did have that at the end, but
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  thank you. I you know, I was talking to I
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  met was last night for the first time and I had asked him that
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  question. You know, do you think it's
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  appropriate to have a dedicated person for the wheelchair track
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  athlete? Right.
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  And my initial thought for, I don't know, a decade, I've been
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  thinking, no, why? Because we're extra special.
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  We need somebody different. We should be a part of that
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  team. You know, we're already used to
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  being singled out. But Brian changed my
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  perspective, which is really hard to do.
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  I don't know if you know that. And he he said, well, you know,
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  long jump has specialized coaches, you know, field has
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  specialized coaches, the sprinters have specialized
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  coaches. This is something different.
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  And it was kind of like an aha moment for me.
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  So I just thought I'd share that.
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  Thank you. Can I have something in there?
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  What's that? Can I add something?
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  Yeah. I just finished coaching at that
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  athlete and I'm the, I was the throws coach like I'm, I'm it.
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  So I had like 12 kids. What I figured out right away is
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  he throws a shot put. Somebody's got to go get it.
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  Yeah. And I was the only one there
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  that was me. So our district, I said, hey,
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  can we hire a kid to be like? An assistant.
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  So that, so then the kid had to be there 'cause they were
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  getting paid. I don't know, we paid them like
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  $500.00, but that kid was at practice every day.
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  They learned how to help the kid get in and out.
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  It was, and that worked really well for us.
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  Oh, good, good. Speaking of field looks, OK,
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  let's just quickly go through this.
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  I don't know a lot about field, so if you have questions, please
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  divert to somebody else. Look at this guy.
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  Here maybe to this guy. No.
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  This is a field chair. We only do shot in the WIAA.
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  This pole can be used to help stabilize right.
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  It can be switched to either side if they're left or
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  right-handed. We use straps of any kind, even
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  something as simple as like this strap I have on the back of my
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  wheelchair to keep their legs down.
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  They shouldn't be able to lift their legs off of the seated
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  platform. Really encouraging your athletes
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  to be able to strap themselves independently because if they're
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  going to do a para meet, they cannot have help unless they're
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  more severe disability such as a quadriplegic.
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  So overtransfers. Too.
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  Out of the chair hand strap. It or the?
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  Chair correct if. You are a pair.
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  It's a higher. It's quite a bit higher than
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  your regular. Date chair so.
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  Just so you know. Yeah, but.
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  No, sorry. Foot plates are something that
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  is can be really useful too. You know, it's hard to balance
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  your feet on this little pole, so we almost always utilize a
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  foot plate on these chairs. The chair can be positioned as
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  close to the toll board as possible.
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  I know this year was just told me last night that females are
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  throwing a 3K and males are throwing a 4K.
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  Let's see. You can also if during right
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  there is just going to say. So, yeah, and I've heard stories
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  of parents having to sit and hold down track or field chairs
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  while they're throwing. So this is something I would
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  definitely try to utilize some kind of portable platform that
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  you can strap the OR the field chair down to.
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  This one is a little bit different of a field chair, but
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  I don't see why you couldn't do that with this.
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  College actually or will be tomorrow what it has actually in
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  their throat circle they have. What are those things called?
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  Eye bolts. OK, eye bolts.
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  So it's really nice you can. Grab right on with the ratchets,
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  Yeah, Otherwise you're pounding steaks and and take a.
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  Peach. Kind of my kid I built 4x4.
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  It's your platform that fit in the shot.
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  Put circle. And it was.
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  And I had I bolts in all four corners so we could literally
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  strap the chair to the platform outside, get it ready to go.
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  My other throwers would lift it into the ring and then we could
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  do it indoors. Yeah.
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  Do you have a picture of it? I do on my.
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  Phone. Yeah, that would be really neat.
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  If you want to send it to me, I can pull it up on my computer.
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  Yeah. Metal sledgehammers.
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  Just trying to get this as stable as possible for them to
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  throw on when if you do transition to outside of WIA,
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  you are able to throw shot, discus and jab, which is really
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  a neat option for the kids to know.
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  Yeah. And then these are just
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  different types. You know, you can I, I see a lot
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  of forward facing field chairs. And again, I'm not a field
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  coach, but I also see sometimes they'll tilt the chair at an
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  angle so that the kids can actually get that rotation.
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  And if you have a student in your school right now, WIAA does
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  not, but let's say it's a quadriplegic or somebody that
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  has a more severe disability. This is a club and I know WIAA
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  years ago they will, they did allow, but again, this is for
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  somebody that's more severe. This is a Paralympic sport too.
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  So just you know, just FYI, that does exist.
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  Throw it. Backwards.
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  So they'll be looking. Opposite and throw it behind
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  their head the club. So this is just a discus
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  obviously, but we are not doing that and.
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  And I would say those of you that are coaches, we have talked
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  to WIAA, please continue. It's really sad that they can
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  only do the shot put and they can't do the discus.
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  So obviously I don't know who's got the decision making process,
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  but really trying to get that to WIAA to get that discus.
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  In and I think this is just really important to me, you
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  know, not you're treated differently most of your life
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  being somebody with a disability.
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  So just try to remember that and treat them like you would treat
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  any other athlete of yours. Again, we're all coaches, you
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  know. Different ideas of why being
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  part of the team matters, Amy. Can I change your name?
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  Just shop with. One second, Yeah, Sorry.
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  No, you're, I tend to fly over that because I yeah, I'm so
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  sorry. So the only thing that is
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  different, the mechanics don't change, but you have a bar that
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  you can pull on. So if your athlete doesn't have
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  a lot of core strength, they can lean back and then they can pull
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  as they push. So you can get an extra foot or
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  more because you're generating some momentum for an athlete
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  that doesn't. So just remind them that that
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  bar is there and they can use it.
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  They don't have to. They don't get penalized if they
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  don't, but it's not, it's not cheating to use it.
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  So sometimes with new athletes, they need to realize that
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  they're just trying to do this and this arm is staying still.
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  So that's the move. Thank you.
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  Anything else about field? 1700 think just looked at the
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  website for that coach. But I have seen high schools
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  build these, right? Yeah.
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  So this is a very simple idea. Yeah, we have.
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  One made out of PVC, 10 years illness but then donated to
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  Paul's party again. Paul's party has been fantastic.
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  You need anything, call them and they're big fundraisers in
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  August, so. And.
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  Equipment wise, I was. Going to say we all work
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  together, you know, Dairyland, Great Lakes, the Paul's party.
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  So it's really nice and we all have cell phone numbers.
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  And so, you know, once you're part of this community, even if
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  you're out of meet, it's not unusual to get a call or a text.
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  And please text me if you're getting equipment, well track
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  equipment, please text me. I've seen a lot of chairs that
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  were ordered that just little things are off for the athlete,
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  like the size of the ring, right?
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  Or the length of the chair. Not everybody had my chairs
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  pretty long. I'm about 510.
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  So you know that is the length is because my arms are so long,
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  right? But somebody who's maybe 5-3
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  wouldn't want a chair that's this long.
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  So just I'm always available. Please just shoot me a text and
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  it's free. And we've got Steve is up in
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  point and so we've got. People somewhere where we. 5
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  more minutes. Yeah, OK.
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  What are the contested track races?
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  Is it 148? Is it 16 or 15169?
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  Or 16. So it's 16 at the high school
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  and 15 at para, which makes no sense but.
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  So one thing that I really think is neat is there are collegiate
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  programs for track, wheelchair track, and not everybody knows
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  that. So giving these kids that
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  opportunity to even hear about that scholarship opportunities,
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  continuing on with a program outside of high school that can
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  really help their grades too, right?
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  Give them more of a reason to want to do better in school.
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  And this is one of ours that just signed at University of
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  Illinois this past year. And we coached her this country.
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  She's up in northern North Dakota, so very, very rural.
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  And so Amy, if you want to touch on rollers really quick.
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  Yep. So these are rollers.
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  They're not all. This is the kind of roller you
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  should get right here. That big cylinder in the back,
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  it creates momentum. These tiny little ones over here
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  are fine for maybe a warm up at a track, but these are for
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  training. You don't.
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  If you don't have that momentum from the big cylinder kind of
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  propelling you along, you stay stuck in that short, choppy
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  stroke and then you're learning that behavior and it transitions
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  onto the track. You don't want that.
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  These are roughly $1000 I want to say, and what we do, oh,
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  we'll see. We already talked about more
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  coaching staff necessary. We talked about that a little
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  bit. Busing and hotel accessibility.
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  We'll come back to. I just want to say with these
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  rollers, I do, and I've had coaches just jump on and kind of
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  see what we do. On Mondays at six, PMI host a
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  live Zoom workout where people can log in from all.
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  We have people from New York to we've had California on Texas
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  bought all over the country and they jump on and we all do a
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  workout together that I lead and just kind of chat about issues,
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  problems. What gloves are working for you?
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  How do I change this? And especially if you're pushing
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  by yourself, I think that's really important to be able to
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  have some kind of connection there, yes.
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  If anybody's interested in purchasing a trainer like that,
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  we have one that is collecting dust that was used about 3
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  times. Awesome give.
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  You an incredible deal. Did you did you get that to
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  'cause I remember you guys had such trouble getting it to work.
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  We. Did not OK, but my kid was a
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  thrower who raced for something else to do, so his tires were
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  about this far. From the edge of I remember
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  seeing the video, yeah. Yeah.
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  And we just never really took time to fine tune it.
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  That probably would have fixed it.
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  That's another issue you run into is the camber.
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  People don't know what to order for the camber of the chairs.
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  There's a lot of technical things, so these are places
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  where you can get equipment. I think this is really important
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  too. Again, more.
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  And this was just a video I thought was neat.
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  But we do not have to watch that.
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  Don't drive us, you have. 1. Minute I I wanna open for
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  questions if there's anything, unless people have already been
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  kind of saying them as it comes along or any questions, I'm just
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  calling. Up here too, so feel free to
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  look not look if not sports and spokes.
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  It's a magazine that's both online and paper, but it also
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  has other opportunities. It also talks about with Movie
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  United, other meets, other pair of meets and Wisconsin.
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  You can attend 2 non WIAA meats. You can do Dairyland, you can
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  Great Great Lakes. And what's fun about the bigger
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  pair of meats is it really gives the kids an opportunity to
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  compete against other kids with disabilities and then includes
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  our ambulatory and our amputees. If you really want something to
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  fall asleep with, this is our rules and we best practices.
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  We really try even at the junior high high school to have the
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  kids practicing the the the right rules.
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  So if they do move up, you know they're it's best practices
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  already. And, and we'd love to help.
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  I mean, that's just something that I kind of forgot it that I
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  had on there. But you know us at GLASA because
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  we do reach out to such a big area.
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  Please utilize us, you know, find out if there's a program in
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  your area too with some kind of expert.
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  But with us, you have that. And we, Cindy established Glass
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  when, I don't know, 30 years ago, something like that.
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  There's a long history there. And we have access to a lot of
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  knowledgeable people that if we don't know the answer to, we can
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  find somebody who can if. You have competitive athletes.
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  We also are a path when they have the international teams.
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  And we also work with USATF, Para for the high school,
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  Paralympic, All American. So you may have a student who's
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  at state and you know, they've got times, you know, feel free
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  to reach. Out to Johnny is a high school,
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  and he's a good one. Feel free to reach out to us
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  and, you know, we'll look that standard up.
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  And we just had a new athlete who reached out and I'm like,
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  wait, what are you throwing? And when she told me what she
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  was throwing, I'm like, Hey, you met standards for, you know,
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  high school para, you know, all American and, you know, also
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  introductions to the, you know, to the college coaches.
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  So. And then it also, you know, we
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  really encourage athletes giving back.
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  You know, once you've gone through our program, a lot of
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  them will come back to practices and help mentor the younger
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  athletes. And I think that's important,
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  too. What's the process to?
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  Sign your athlete up for a meet. You it's a meet coming up next
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  week at random life or something.
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  You, you notify them when you're registering your team that you
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  have a wheelchair athlete that's competing in XY and Z events and
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  they'll add it to the heat sheet and the schedule and everything
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  like. That Yep, you got to contact
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  them, you know, give them plenty of time, but contact them, you
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  know the events and. Is it typically like there's
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  only one or maybe 2 athletes that have raced outside of
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  state? Is it JB or varsity?
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  I mean, is it? Does it matter?
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  Or. They all go at once.
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  Usually it's going to be maybe one person, other athlete there.
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  A lot of times they're racing by themselves.
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  We've at times contacted other schools with racers and have had
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  them just come to a meet or we would just take our athlete
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  there to their meet just to be able to race against somebody.
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  But yeah, just contact. But it could be.
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  AJV or a varsity meet? Or is it typically a varsity
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  only or? Either way, like if it's a GJV,
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  meet, varsity, whatever I mean. I can tell you there's a girl,
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  there's a sophomore out of Kenosha that would we'd love to
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  get competition for. We didn't by grade just so
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  Gianni could go travel with his classmates.
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  So he competed at some baby meets even though he is
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  phenomenal, but I wanted him to travel with the freshmen.
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  That's a good idea to have. His friends rather than being
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  alone with a bunch of seniors he didn't know.
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  That didn't make any sense to me.
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  So I progressed him by grade, and I know that's what a couple
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  other coaches in our conference have done is that junior and
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  senior year they typically go to the varsity meets.
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  But my sophomore year he had a cousin on the varsity team.
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  He wanted to go with varsity his freshman year.
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  I did have him go to mostly the baby meets, so he was at his own
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  age. OK, good to know.
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  Do their results add into the team score at all?
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  No. No, no it doesn't.
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  Impact the. Team.
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  Score and often JD meets get done a little faster, so they're
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  a little upset about adding an extra heat and get the kids home
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  sooner for homework. And because if I don't contact
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  $40 in advance, I might have his entry denied.
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  Thank you. Good point all.
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  The meets are exhibition until State.
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  State was really the only. I thought you had to go to.
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  Yeah, but as far as what? Points.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, you. Have to.
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  Do 4-4 meets. And sectionals.
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  Which is something that I'd like to see changed.
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  If you guys think this is 2, please talk to your athletic
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  directors or connections, but I think Wisconsin should have
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  standards for. Wheelchair track?
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  Do you want to explain what that is?
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  I think, you know, just some kind of goal for them to aim
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  for. You know, whether that's a
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  minute, 100 meter, you should be able to do 100 meters in a
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  minute, right? It doesn't have to be something
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  unreachable, but I think setting a standard and a goal for these
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  kids makes state a more exciting thing that they reach, right,
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  Not just showing up. And I made it to state, you
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  know, my son wanted to go to state at track.
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  Did he go? No, you know, so it's just to
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  be. Clear, like right now they do
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  their fur meets, they show up to the sectional and compete and
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  then they're like. Inch yes, yeah.
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  So. You're like by standard, you're
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  like, They would have some. Kind of time, time standard,
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  yes, thank you and I don't think.
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  We'll get to that number, but if there's. 12 boys competing in
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  the mile at sectionals throughout the state.
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  They take the sectional winners and then the top 10.
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  Total this year, which? Is a little.
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  Bit closer to what it's like for your.
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  Yeah, yeah, 'cause. I think last year what was
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  there, 3 or 4? Heats of 100 boys, you know.
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  And. So it's like.
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  Yeah, right. No other event has four heats
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  that stayed right. Correct.
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  So just something to think about and something I'd like to see
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  happen, you know? Another thing that's interesting
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  is they have you declare your events a bit before regionals,
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  and I've kind of fought them on that because with where Gianni's
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  at in this training progression. Sometimes.
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  We haven't made that call and why should I have to declare
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  what he's going to raise two weeks before my able bodied
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  athletes? I need to actually.
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  Like interesting. Yeah.
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  Or I can decide which races he's going after because he's.
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  Got 2 state. Records like he has goals, but
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  if he's like as we're trying to juggle, what does?
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  That look like. We're not ready two weeks before
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  regionals to make that call because we haven't had all the
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  training runs we're going to have yet.
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  And so I've kind of battled the WI on that deadline of
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  absolutely not. I just no, just don't
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  personalize as metals because that's the argument is they have
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  to personalize. The metal.
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  It has to get. To the printer I said fine he
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  gets blank metals. I will pick when the able bodied
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  athletes pick. You know, thank you for that
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  perspective. No.
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  While we do have one of the highest wheelchair athlete
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  numbers in Wisconsin in the country, there's still stuff we
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  have to work on for sure. So.
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  If you're in that. Position they.
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  Will let you just pack later. It's so it's it's 4 needs.
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  It doesn't have to be a specific event.
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  OK. Do you think having a standard
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  would help with that that issue where like the kids have to
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  qualify quote UN quote at the sectional meet and make it to
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  state would help with like that two week issue that you're
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  having or no? But I still wouldn't know what I
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  was entering in the in at sectional.
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  That's my argument because I don't know if we're going to get
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  the start squared up enough that I want it in the 100.
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  It's like, I don't know, got it. And it's not a sprinter, so.
• 22:16
  Everybody thinks they're gonna be a sprinter, and then yeah,
• 22:19
  no, it's the easiest. It's the easiest one to do right
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  off the jump. I get it.
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  But. It also drives me crazy when
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  they put those top 10 posters out in the lobby and they never
• 22:31
  put the wheelchair athletes. Out there.
• 22:34
  If there were only like I was looking for two kids that did it
• 22:37
  fine. But like you said at state,
• 22:38
  there's how many kids doing 100? Yeah, make it the top three
• 22:41
  then, or. Something but.
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  Yeah. And I would just say as coaches,
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  if you do have students in your school and I've got it paper
• 22:53
  that are ambulatory, you know, again, we're trying to get if
• 22:57
  those kids, we're trying to get them to state based on
• 23:00
  standards. So if you got somebody that's
• 23:02
  an, you know, amputation or something, please reach out to
• 23:05
  those parents. And because enough people are
• 23:08
  heard, hopefully we can get those standards.
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  And there's a lot of states with best practice standards that we
• 23:16
  have access to. So we would not be, this is not
• 23:19
  time consuming. We would not be starting
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  something from scratch. There's there's a lot of
• 23:24
  information out there, so. And then just one more quick
• 23:27
  thing there, the WI, I know Cindy mentioned this at the
• 23:31
  beginning, allows your athletes to compete in two non WIAA track
• 23:36
  meets during the season. And there's one that's coming up
• 23:38
  in May at here in Madison area. And then we do one too state
• 23:45
  weekend though. But yeah, but but definitely
• 23:50
  check it out. And even if your athlete doesn't
• 23:52
  want to compete in it and you're close, come look and see what
• 23:55
  it's about, you know? Yeah, and there is a there's a
• 23:58
  big me in July. It's through Move United.
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  It's in Grand Rapids, so you can drive that.
• 24:02
  I know I saw your athlete through there last year, but
• 24:06
  it's really, it's a full week of clinics, competitions,
• 24:11
  camaraderie and it's, you know, if they're looking for more
• 24:15
  opportunities, it's great. So and they also have swimming,
• 24:18
  archery, powerlifting and a whole week of various sports.
• 24:22
  For Megan did tennis this year at her high school.
• 24:26
  Tennis. Come on.
• 24:28
  Shore clinics on Thursday night. Close a month, they haven't seen
• 24:30
  her out. There, she needs more practice.
• 24:32
  We got Jeff's really good. He's been playing with her
• 24:35
  tennis for like 12 years, so you could teach her.
• 24:38
  Yeah, he's off. She.
• 24:39
  Just likes to go out their way all around.
• 24:40
  That's perfect. Although never mind, she should
• 24:43
  stick to track. Obviously I'm joking, but all
• 24:52
  right. Anything else?
• 24:56
  Great. I can.
• 24:58
  Yeah. It's on Google, So just.
• 25:01
  Yeah, I have Google Slides. No, I didn't.
• 25:05
  I wanted to do that like do you want?
• 25:07
  No. Do you want to just shoot me
• 25:09
  your e-mail and come out or and I'll just e-mail it to you?
• 25:12
  I think I have yours. I don't know.
• 25:14
  OK. OK, So I mean, I know you.
• 25:15
  Work OK, OK. And I know the Hall's party.
• 25:22
  People that they're in. A little bit, you know, just to
• 25:25
  make sure. Like.
• 25:27
  She'll take a look at the city. Because that's.
• 25:30
  Something I'll try to use well, but and I just talked to them
• 25:33
  yesterday and it said we're. Happy.
• 25:34
  Yeah, so. All of that so because.
• 25:39
  Her. Tandems are that's.
• 25:44
  Whatever. So we just, we follow their
• 25:46
  schedule, we do their workout. We feel like she could handle a
• 25:49
  little bit more on that day. We push her a little bit more.
• 25:53
  You know, I'm just trying to plan out, you know, more of a
• 25:56
  throwing day, you know, lifting and all that other stuff.
• 25:59
  So we, we're in the weight room, you know, two to three times a
• 26:04
  week. You know, they're only with an
• 26:06
  upper body. So we're not going to be in
• 26:07
  there every day. But yeah, yeah.
• 26:10
  Yeah, We just kind of do what the other efforts we have, you
• 26:15
  know, recovery days, lactic days, whatever, all that.
• 26:18
  I will set that up. I just follow the program that
• 26:21
  they set with our workouts. This is a sample of one of mine
• 26:25
  that I do and I just, I always do that 10 minute warm up, but
• 26:32
  the athletes should be out there starting slow and increasing
• 26:34
  their pace. Typically it's about two miles
• 26:36
  for most of our athletes, but the younger ones, 10 minutes,
• 26:39
  they might only get 2 laps in, you know, but they're using that
• 26:43
  same amount of time. So not sure if that's helpful.
• 26:47
  I. Think parallel it, it doesn't
• 26:49
  have to be the same, right? Like 'cause sometimes it's just,
• 26:52
  oh, they're going to be on the turf running this and that.
• 26:55
  It's like, well, OK, now we have to make something that's
• 26:57
  parallel. Maybe you're going to work on
• 26:58
  start. Yeah, no, I mean it's, I mean it
• 27:01
  worked. OK, last.
• 27:02
  Year and ours is. Tricky because we share with our
• 27:04
  school on track. And.
• 27:06
  It's like it's it's. Like.
• 27:11
  As a new. Coach, I'm like, what's?
• 27:12
  Going on here. This might be dumb, so we get
• 27:17
  his chair out. And if it's.
• 27:19
  Windy that thing like blows away.
• 27:21
  Can I just put like my? Weighted backpack.
• 27:26
  Yeah, thank you. Good.
• 27:28
  Yeah, weighted backpack is better.
• 27:30
  One thing I noticed is everybody pulls them around like this.
• 27:34
  Yeah, yes, yeah, Don't, don't. So everybody pulls the chairs,
• 27:40
  they'll pull it up like this and they'll walk with it up like
• 27:42
  this and the wheels will start shaking.
• 27:45
  It ruins the camber. Keep it low.
• 27:48
  I mean, picking it up like to here and pulling it fine.
• 27:51
  Otherwise, just push it. Don't let the And then you got
• 27:54
  to mess around with the lineman again and all this and the kids
• 27:57
  are like, my compensator doesn't work.
• 27:58
  No, your wheels aren't aligned anymore.
• 28:00
  So just be very careful with that.
• 28:02
  These are very touchy, but throwing a backpack in there is
• 28:05
  fine. I know I was talking to, I think
• 28:08
  it was you about, you know, different techniques for starts.
• 28:12
  You know, you see kids like, I don't think you do that in high
• 28:14
  school, but running with parachutes kind of stuff.
• 28:16
  If they need more of that with weighted stuff, what I'll do is
• 28:19
  I'll go back here. Then I can really see where
• 28:21
  they're hitting and I make them pull me.
• 28:24
  Yeah, somebody can can do that. Or I've I've had athletes, which
• 28:34
  is the best thing you can do because then you're adding
• 28:36
  resistance. Till their start if.
• 28:38
  There's a small hill, have them get on that hill and push that
• 28:41
  really recreates the same muscles they're going to be
• 28:43
  using during that start stroke. I've had kids who put chains on
• 28:48
  and pulled tires down the straight away, you know, on the
• 28:51
  paved part. So we had.
• 28:55
  A spring coach who we like put the spring.
• 28:58
  Coach behind him and just bungee, yeah.
• 28:59
  And. Coach would what was jogging?
• 29:03
  With him. But he was calling anything you,
• 29:05
  you know, just be creative. Yeah.
• 29:12
  And then when they're giving a presentation in 20 years, they
• 29:14
  can tell funny stories about you, Amy.
• 29:19
  Tire pressure recommendation. It's normally written on the
• 29:22
  side of the tires, Yeah, but about you, you want them to be
• 29:26
  almost to to full, right? Maybe 510 lbs, especially if
• 29:30
  they're just pushing on a track. You're doing a road race, you
• 29:32
  know, just maybe not that hard. And they're going to be
• 29:35
  different types of tires. There are track tires, there are
• 29:37
  Rd. racing tires. Just kind of take a look at what
• 29:41
  you think your athlete needs and go from there.
• 29:44
  If you do need rims changing, he's an expert, but it's not.
• 29:48
  The easiest job I'll. Just say these it's wear down
• 29:52
  those. Rims are what you want.
• 29:54
  When she said that, that means this part you'll see wear and
• 29:57
  tear on them. This is literally just a metal
• 29:59
  ring with tire coating on it. So the more and more they push
• 30:03
  on there, the more this is going to wear down.
• 30:04
  And you'll have to change that out.
• 30:06
  It's really tedious and time. Yeah, but I don't want to do it
• 30:11
  for you. But I'll tell you how to do it.
• 30:12
  Here we go. So yeah, it's it's intense.
• 30:21
  And I'd say typically I only really see that needing to be
• 30:24
  changed every few seasons unless you're a marathon runner.
• 30:32
  There are some fun opportunities though, aside from, you know,
• 30:36
  like the Dairyland Great Light Games.
• 30:38
  We take a group of athletes to fast cow and champagne, which is
• 30:44
  really cool because I get to be on the track with the
• 30:46
  Paralympians. So that's really fun.
• 30:49
  There's they have a track camp. So again, if you have athletes
• 30:53
  and they're very, very welcoming.
• 30:55
  So there are the elite, but it's also fun for those that maybe
• 30:59
  are not at that level and a lot of peer mentoring.
• 31:01
  And so feel free to reach out to us on that.
• 31:05
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• 31:11
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