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BONUS: Live Coach's Interviews from Day 3 Nike Outdoor Nationals with Beynon Sports Surfacing! · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  What's up everybody, it's day three.
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  We in the building, the Hayward Field building.
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  I'm sitting here currently staring at the I believe it's
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  the emerging elite pole vault. What I was just thinking how
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  lucky are these kids? They are on huge double front
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  gill pits, the amazing AGX pole vault standards.
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  This is really a phenomenal place to pole vault and how
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  lucky they are to be doing so. Lots of great Pacer 1, Pacer FX
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  VS and Pacer composites out there.
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  Just so exciting to be able to see things that our team build
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  by hand being used by these guys and gals.
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  It's really awesome. And then up on the scoreboard,
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  we've got the emergent elite 110 hurdles going again over the
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  continuous C fours and that's enough of a commercial for
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  today. So we're here with day three,
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  bringing you micro interviews from coaches that are here in
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  the coaches hospitality. If the weather holds on me
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  today, we'll get a few more in than we did yesterday, but we're
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  just excited to bring you amazing people who choose to be
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  track and field coaches around the country right here in
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  Eugene, OR for day three of the Oregon National High School
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  Championship. All right, let's kick off day
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  three with our first interview. These guys travelled a long way
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  to get here and I want to find out why.
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  Coach, why don't you go and introduce yourself and tell us
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  where you're from? Good morning, good morning.
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  So I'm coach Warren your with Ridgeview High School, Columbia,
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  SC and it's it's just a pleasure to be here in the the cathedral.
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  They would feel here in Eugene. Is this your first time here?
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  So this is actually my second. So yeah, man, you know, my
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  partner and I, man, we, we came here the first year that they
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  held Nashville's here back then during the COVID.
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  Year. Yeah, you know.
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  So that was an experience of its own.
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  So that would have been like its first year.
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  Opening, opening. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, I was into involved. We did this facility and so I
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  remember, you know, winning it right before COVID and then
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  working on it all through COVID and just, you know, it was a
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  tough project just because of the cathedral esque of it.
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  But then you had a COVID restrictions and it just, it
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  was, it was tough. But it was tough it.
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  Seems like it turned out OK. It turned out OK for you, coach.
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  You know, it actually turned out OK, you know, had a had a couple
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  kids get on the podium that year, you know, you know, after
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  some whirlwind of travel. So, you know, that's, that's
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  starting to become a theme for for myself traveling out here.
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  But you know, at the end of the day, man, it's always the best.
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  So great, great segue to my question there, coach.
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  You know, you're in Columbia, SC, the beautiful place.
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  That's actually where I did my very first USATF level 1 was at
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  South Carolina. So a fond memories of it because
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  I'm a huge coach and Ed guy. But you know, on this weekend or
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  near this weekend, we have two other track meets that are going
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  on for high school championships and we won't.
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  I don't even entertain the argument about why there are so
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  many high school national championships.
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  When people ask that question, I think it's kind of a silly
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  question. So I don't even entertain the
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  the argument. You have choice.
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  This is what my real what I'm getting at here.
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  Why do all the way? You mentioned cathedral, I get
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  that. But why come here to Hayward
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  Field? Yeah.
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  I think for the most part, this is the experience of allowing
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  our athletes, that, one, have probably never traveled to the
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  West Coast, you know what I'm saying, to be able to kind of
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  see what, you know, the country looks like on the other side of
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  town, right? And then two, you know, a lot of
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  these athletes of ours, we run well in the state, you know, we
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  run well within the borders of, of where we are.
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  But, you know, it's, it's different when you get to
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  compete against key people from, you know, Texas and California
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  and kind of see what it's like to run Nashville, you know, and
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  who knows whether or not they're going to continue their their
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  athletic ability in college and if they even get here for, you
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  know, the college nationals. So to be able to be able to
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  utilize this facility, run on it and kind of see the the
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  insurance and outs as a high schooler, you know you can, you
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  can't be that. That's a really good point
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  actually, when you were saying that I was thinking about good
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  friend of mine is Justin Gatlin and he's got a great podcast.
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  If you don't listen to Ready Set Go, you've got to listen to with
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  them and the bearded wonder they do.
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  You're kind of becoming a little bearded, Hey?
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  You know, I'm, I'm, I'm taking my music coach.
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  You know recipes coach. False.
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  But please go check that podcast out as well.
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  Justin talks a lot about, you know, the difference between
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  when you're in college, when you go Pro is the travel and new
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  food, you know, going over to Japan and China and all those
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  kind of things. Yeah, well, this is kind of a
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  mini version. While, you know, the food is
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  going to be the same, you know, Air Force there, obviously, but
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  you know, the time zones. That's yes, you know, we
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  struggle as adults with time. Yeah.
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  You know, different time schedules because this is a
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  longer me because you have so many kids.
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  So this is a what a great experience for your kids if you
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  do go to college and you know somebody may one day go onto the
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  circuit. Yeah, yeah.
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  You know, one of our things with with our program is, is trust in
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  the process, right. And I think one thing.
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  That says that from you guys most.
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  Definitely, you know, and I think for for us, Charles and I,
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  we want to give our kids the experience where if, if you want
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  to go collegiately, right, we'll tap you in.
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  We, we won't take you to the ceiling, but we'll kind of give
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  you kind of an insight of what it might look like to run at
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  that level, right? You know, understanding how to
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  take care of yourself, getting the rest, you know, so making
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  sure you're getting the nutrition in right, right,
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  understanding and and seeing how it is to warm up and compete
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  against, you know, some of these great athletes, talk to them
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  because a lot of these kids, if you're going to be running in
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  college, you're going to be seeing them for the next three
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  to four years, right, right. So intermingle, you know.
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  That's cool, you know. Find some information man and.
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  Keep rolling That's cool. I love that man.
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  You know I I wasn't at a caliber in high school to you know, come
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  to me like this, but to have the opportunity like maybe I would
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  have been to that. Maybe I had more motivation.
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  I don't know, right? That's pretty cool.
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  Well, last question before I pass it on to someone, you know
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  decently, I'm sure the last question is it's day three here
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  in Eugene, OR what's what you got going on today?
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  What are we running today? Yeah.
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  So today we do have a 4 by 8 running in the championship
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  division under the lights here, I think was 8:00, right?
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  Yeah, yeah. And then tomorrow we do have our
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  four by fours that'll be in the championship division.
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  I think we're in the faster section in that as well.
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  So you know, hopefully we can make some things shake.
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  You know, right now these haven't gone as according to
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  plan so. Just about that How many seniors
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  are in those relays? So I believe I have two seniors.
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  OK. All right.
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  Over those relays. So man, look here, keep your
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  fingers crossed. Well, or, you know, got to know
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  you over the last couple years a lot.
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  You know, again, This is why when people want a dog on social
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  media and Twitter specifically and they say, oh, you know,
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  something about a cesspool and all those kind of things, I
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  think of guys like you. But I'm like, man, I don't know
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  without Twitter if I would know you guys or know you as well or
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  be able to communicate as much as we do and then coordinate
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  with things. I, I just, that's, that's the
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  positivity of social media. So I'm just so thankful for you
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  and what you do, what you have been doing for your school, but
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  also the whole statement. You're, you guys have expanded
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  beyond just the school and are doing an amazing job.
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  Really proud of you for what you're doing for track and
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  field, specifically Interstate. So thanks for more.
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  Appreciate you. Thank you We.
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  We talked to relays, so let's do a relay handoff.
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  I wish you guys could see is we have these ridiculous little
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  microphones. I mean, it's kind of hilarious
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  here, but that's what you got to do when you do this on the road.
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  And we're proud. This is our first time we've
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  done on the road interviews and such.
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  And so we're really excited to be able to see coaches and talk
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  to them right here at the Nike Outdoor National Championships.
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  And we'll be doing this for other meets and maybe we're
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  going to do something around track clinics and things like
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  that. But just want to continue to
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  expand the value that we bring through the podcast for you guys
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  and gals that choose to listen to us.
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  And we're just so humble that you do press play right here on
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  the Guild Connections podcast. OK, that was first leg.
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  Let's go to our second leg. Coach, introduce yourself.
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  And, you know, I think we know where you're from because we're
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  team. Yeah, hey, what's going on?
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  Everybody is Coach Charles Proctor, CP as as most of y'all
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  know, me. I'm the I'm the boys head track
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  coach every high school in Columbia, SC.
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  Hey, and real quick, I just thought about this because I
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  always like to, you know, you guys know me well enough like to
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  expand networks and expand my network.
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  Hand it back to Warren real quick.
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  Warren, why don't you tell us what your Twitter handle is for
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  those guys and gals that are on Twitter.
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  You don't know it by heart. I don't it's easy, it's my name.
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  So but I just want to make sure that as they're looking here on
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  their Twitter handles. If you are on Twitter and you
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  like to engage in positive conversations, challenging
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  conversations, but want to have a network of people around you
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  specifically on Twitter that are there to help you and be helped.
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  These these are two guys you need to to be following.
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  So what's your handle? There.
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  Oh yeah, I just had to make sure I I did get it right, but it's
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  WT you're my last name, so WTEURE.
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  Right. Perfect.
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  I love it. Sweet and simple.
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  Man, there's so many tough ones. Yeah, that was taken man.
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  So mine is coach CP5, the number 5 coach CP 5 so.
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  Whenever someone adds a number, I always have to ask what's the.
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  Significance, that's just my favorite number, man, it's
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  always been my favorite number growing up.
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  So when CP was taken, coach CP was taken.
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  So let me add the five on there. So that's what that's what we
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  got that one that. In my birth year, which is not a
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  smart thing to put on your thing.
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  That's actually what it is on Instagram 1920 in 1976.
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  But I was doing a lot of advertising with Twitter back in
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  the day and I actually had an account manager pre Musk and all
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  that stuff. And so one day I'm talking with
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  my account manager, you know, we're setting up the next
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  campaign and all that. And I was like, I got a crazy
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  question. I go, I looked, you know,
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  somebody has, you know, at Mike Cunningham, but they haven't
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  tweeted like in five years. Like it's, it's an active.
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  Is there ever like, do you guys kick people off or, you know, or
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  whatnot? Yeah, you're all good.
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  All good, brother, all good. We've got coaches everywhere.
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  I love it. And so I asked her.
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  I was like, you know, do you guys ever kick people off for
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  being an active and things like that?
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  And she goes, oh, let me look into it.
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  And I literally just like the next day he logged back in and I
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  was at Mike Gunning. That's how I'm talking about.
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  You know there's some dude that they're going to look up, right?
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  Right. Six years.
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  Now you want to start doing it, Man get out of here, man, get
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  out of here. I've never heard actually I had
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  another Mike coming here reach out and say pay you for it and I
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  was like bro unless you can offer like a million there ain't
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  nothing I give up for my own mate like.
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  Alright, well, let's bump all that social media stuff.
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  Charles, what are you doing here, man?
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  You're out here on the West Coast.
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  We've got a little insight from Warren here.
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  How are things going? And have you had Track Town
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  Pizza? That's always one question.
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  I have not. The entire staff did and the I
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  think all the kids did. Dude, where were you?
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  Why didn't you get any? Good question.
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  I honestly don't know what I can't even look.
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  But that was after probably one of the craziest travel days so
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  I'm working on things. I can't even tell you what I ate
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  that night, but I just see everybody coming back with
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  pizza. I'm like, OK, I didn't get the
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  damn home memo, all right? I got left out.
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  That's cool. So you're in Columbia.
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  So it's very similar to me, right?
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  I live in a college town, Champaign, IL.
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  So you know, you can either drive to a big airport or go
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  from a small airport to a big one.
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  I just, I do that. I do the small to a big and then
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  come out. How do you guys like?
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  That and so we, we've done all of the above.
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  So, but this this time around, we we flew out of Charlotte.
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  OK. And Charlotte's about an hour
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  and 2020 minutes away from the crib.
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  Yeah, so. Wasn't bad at all, but we ran
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  into, of course, you know, the storms was happening, so we ran
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  into delays and then Dallas, no. So we went Charlotte to JFK.
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  So Charlotte to New York. Yeah, first of all, you never go
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  through any new. York Airport Ever, La Guardia
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  and. JFK are top two worst.
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  Lots of great things. To not go through, and I am
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  sorry for all my New Yorkers before those airports are the
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  worst, but yeah, so, so actually.
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  Once we. Missed the first one our our
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  flight path path just got crazy. So we went from of course we
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  drove from Columbia to Charlotte.
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  We're supposed to have a six. AM flight.
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  Yep. And so we go from Charlotte to
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  JFK, from JFK to Seattle, from Seattle, from Seattle to
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  Portland, and then we drove from Portland.
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  Oh yeah. So by the time.
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  Look. So when I tell you, I can't tell
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  you how I missed Tracktown Pizza, but I can tell you how I
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  missed Track because, like, I was out of it, man.
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  My time we got here, but I was out of it doing the travel.
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  Yeah. So that we had everybody, the
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  kids, the staff. So we were traveling with, what,
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  26 people? You know.
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  And so we were catching. We were like, we were catching,
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  still trying to get flights. I had a bad one going to Denver
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  to go down to Pueblo for the D2 this year, and it's the same
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  thing. You know, my flight from, I
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  think Dallas to Denver didn't take off till 1:30 in the
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  morning and all that kind of stuff.
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  But then I think, yeah, but it was just me.
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  When you're responsible for 20 something young people, I mean,
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  that's AI did that when I coach, you know, I remember from
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  Mississippi State, went to Penn Real.
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  I remember missing flights and we had to split the group up to
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  get on. I was like, yeah.
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  We had to split into. Four different groups.
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  Oh yeah. With so four different flight
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  paths. Yeah.
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  It got. It got wild, man.
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  It got wild. That's where when I talk about,
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  you know, what coaches do and you know, you guys know me well
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  enough, I don't say that and mean like, oh man, you're such a
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  good hurdles coach. Oh man, you're such a good
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  Sprint coach. What's important, you know you
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  have to go to the coach, right? But it's all the other stuff.
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  It's the culture stuff. It's the leading by example
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  stuff. It's the in the heat of the
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  moment trying to figure out, OK, this group needs to go here.
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  This group needs to go here. I need to make sure this group.
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  Right, right. That other stuff, which is 80%
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  of the the profession that I'm just like, oh man, thank God you
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  guys are doing this. I tell, I tell the young coaches
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  all the time. I said the actual coaching part
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  is the least amount of the work that you do within the coaching
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  job. I said if that's all you think
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  you're about to do, but you are not going to survive in this
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  business loan. We, the themes come up during
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  the podcast from interview to interview.
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  And one of the things that we've been exploring more and more
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  lately is, has been that that the X's and O's.
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  That might be the easy part, yes.
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  And then all the other stuff, which is hard to like I'm trying
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  to find a word to describe all the other stuff.
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  So I just we call it the, it's called the 8020.
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  All the 80 percent, 20% is the X's and O's, right?
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  80% of it is discipline, leadership, recruiting, uniform.
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  I mean, you know, there's a million things we could.
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  List the 80% is the quickest way you get fired.
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  Yeah, you better have an 80%. But I'm a great coach.
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  Yeah, that's cool, man, that they're running fast.
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  But you know what? They're not eligible and you
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  never show up on the meets on time.
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  Right, right. Exactly.
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  Exactly. Well, let's talk about here in
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  Oregon. And of course, as we've been
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  talking, it's started to rain again here a little bit.
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  Hopefully it doesn't get as as bad.
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  We had a few downpours yesterday, I was saying on the
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  podcast yesterday, but that did not stop the athletes out there.
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  Oh no, not at all. Not at all.
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  What are you looking forward to You?
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  You mentioned actually one of the things I want to talk about.
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  You mentioned 4 by 8 tonight and I think it should have been
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  around 8:00 tonight. Yeah, yeah.
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  So, so Warren, so Warren's girls have the four by 8:00 tonight.
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  So, so far today, we've had two in the emerging elite hurdles.
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  We have two in the emerging elite triple jump.
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  I have one in the Championship 400 and we have one in the
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  Emerging League jab tonight as well, so.
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  You brought a lot of kids out here.
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  Yeah, we we've been competing every day.
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  So we had the middle schoolers in the freshman role Thursday.
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  We had our Sprint meds role yesterday.
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  Of course, just just told you about the long day we have today
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  and tomorrow looks like I'll be pulling off 4 by 4 and off of
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  some injuries we've had. So, you know, won't be doing a 4
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  by 4. But yeah, we we were coming into
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  the 4 by 4 yet tomorrow we were in the fast heat.
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  So, you know, it's been a great season, though it's June. 21
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  When was your state? Meet Marks, I mean.
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  I'm sorry, May. May. 17th That is what is
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  amazing to me. When I see these kids out here
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  performing and PR ING or hitting near PRS, it's like man, oh they
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  shot. They shot a kid.
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  Oh, that ain't no that's never good.
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  Now the. These kids have had their
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  ultimate means six weeks ago, correct?
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  They're still getting it done. That's a real testament to what
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  you guys are out here doing. So last question then.
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  I want to plug something for you guys because I love what you and
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  your wife are doing. OK.
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  The last question is not counting any events that your
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  kids are in, what event are you most looking forward to?
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  Or maybe it's already happened? Is there any event you're like
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  oh see I heard. About this kid from as a as a
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  Sprint guy myself, it's, it's the 100 I need.
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  I need Maurice and Tate and Braden to make it to the final
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  healthy and I need this rain to slow down just a little bit so,
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  so we can see the fireworks that the entire countries wants to
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  see those those kids have been phenomenal.
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  Shout out to them and their coaches and I I'm ready to see
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  those 3 lock horns and put together some fat.
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  I mean, at the cathedral, one of the fastest tracks in the world,
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  with three of the fastest U 20s in the world.
• 16:46
  Oh man, you know it doesn't get any better than that, man.
• 16:49
  That whole 6:00 to 8:00 tonight block is filled with it.
• 16:52
  So you have the 100m square, the 110 finals.
• 16:54
  I think during that time, Jackson Cantwell, the number one
• 16:56
  shot putter who just signed with University of Miami for football
• 16:59
  on track, he's throwing a shot put.
• 17:01
  And the young lady from Utah who just set the high school, I
• 17:06
  might be getting this wrong, but said the high school 5K national
• 17:09
  run, she's now like number on the on the mile.
• 17:13
  I think she's number 8 or 9 or 10 on the total US list.
• 17:16
  That's a high score. That's great.
• 17:18
  And so they're doing a fast. Anyway, she's in 3000 so that 6
• 17:22
  to 8 window is hot baby. Oh, yeah.
• 17:24
  Look here. Yeah, we'll be.
• 17:26
  Please don't be right here. Give me some hot weather.
• 17:28
  I got I got a brand new poncho. They got me the wrong size.
• 17:31
  I think they got me a medium set of a small.
• 17:33
  It's hanging out of my I will be here in my poncho fucking it
• 17:39
  through the rain. Baby, I'm here.
• 17:40
  Right. Last thing here, I want you to
• 17:42
  plug and tell us about this clinic that you do in December,
• 17:46
  that you guys are doing that, you know, a huge coaching
• 17:49
  education time. Coaches are putting together
• 17:52
  their own clinics and inviting people, put people on stage and
• 17:55
  put people in the seats to learn from those men and women.
• 17:57
  I'm just a big fan and what I love about you guys is you're
• 18:00
  not just focused on, okay, well here's a great hurdles coach to
• 18:04
  talk about hurdles, here's a great distance.
• 18:05
  You're talking about mental side and health like you're doing
• 18:08
  most. Tell us about that and maybe
• 18:10
  where people can go to find more information for the 2025
• 18:13
  version. Most definitely yes.
• 18:14
  So, so my wife and I have a foundation called the Coast
• 18:17
  Proctor Foundation. And through that we coaching
• 18:20
  education is one of the big things that that we focus on
• 18:23
  through that through our foundation.
• 18:25
  You can find all the information through there for that
• 18:27
  foundation at the Coach Proctor foundation.com.
• 18:30
  All right. But so we have the Coach
• 18:32
  Proctors Foundation clinic in December.
• 18:35
  We, this was our second year doing it and, and yes, every
• 18:39
  year we focus on every single event group.
• 18:42
  So you're going to have your sprints, your.
• 18:43
  Hurdles. Your distance, your throws.
• 18:46
  We don't do race walk for all of our AAU people out there.
• 18:48
  So sorry, sorry to hurt your feelings on that, but we are we,
• 18:51
  we bring in mental performance coaches.
• 18:54
  We bring in dietary dietary coaches as well.
• 18:58
  And we, we just, we have a sitting down.
• 19:01
  We, we, we came together and we figured out we have an extensive
• 19:04
  Rolodex of coaches that we can call on at a drop of a dime and
• 19:08
  get help. And, you know, everybody and
• 19:10
  everybody in this coaching profession doesn't have that
• 19:13
  luxury. And So what we wanted to do was
• 19:15
  unfold our Rolodex to anybody who was willing to listen and be
• 19:19
  a part of it. And so we bring in coaches that
• 19:22
  we have a relationship with, whether it's college or whether
• 19:24
  it's college or high school. And they come down and they
• 19:27
  present on their expertise and you know, they, they're, they're
• 19:31
  giving out for free. But most people have to, I mean,
• 19:35
  not for free. Of course you got to pay for the
• 19:36
  clinic. But you know, most of the times
• 19:38
  you got to pay online to get their courses and everything in
• 19:41
  the same courses. They might have to pay online.
• 19:43
  You come to the clinic and you're going to get that.
• 19:45
  But not only that, now, once you leave, now you extend, you've
• 19:47
  expanded your Rolodex because now you have the contact
• 19:50
  information of all the percenters, but you also have
• 19:52
  the contact information from all of the, all of the coaches that
• 19:56
  were, that were in attendance. And one thing that I liked about
• 19:59
  it. As far as South Carolina high
• 20:02
  school coaches is is concerned, in the last two years, all of
• 20:07
  the state champions between 2A3A4A or 5A have been involved
• 20:13
  in this claim. Either they were a presenter or
• 20:16
  they were in attendance and so you know.
• 20:19
  Interesting how that works. Out Hey I'm.
• 20:20
  I'm just saying. If if you like winning, you
• 20:22
  might want to come here because you know it's it's definitely
• 20:25
  been a good omen for for the coaches.
• 20:28
  For all you coaches 35 and under a rolodex you could think.
• 20:31
  Of. That as your contact list in
• 20:34
  your phone that's you know, another Rolodex y'all go is that
• 20:37
  a new thing that Gil's selling an attractive noto that's your
• 20:41
  your contact list on your phone. So go to the Coach Proctor.
• 20:44
  Gcoachproctorfoundation.com. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:47
  Check it out. You do it in December.
• 20:49
  Yes, we. We do it in December and we we
• 20:53
  try, we try to make sure we're not conflicting with with the
• 20:55
  National Convention because you Mike, I see you there.
• 20:57
  I see you there last 2-3 years that me and Warren have lost.
• 21:00
  So we try to make sure we don't conflict with there so that the
• 21:03
  presenting collegiate coaches can do both as well.
• 21:05
  You guys do a great job. Appreciate that Warren, thank
• 21:07
  you so much for being here this day.
• 21:08
  Good luck. We're going to be praying and
• 21:10
  hope we're going to be doing the the non rain dance, whatever the
• 21:13
  opposite of the rain dance, right under the opposite of
• 21:15
  that. But no matter what, I know you
• 21:17
  guys have your kids prepared. They're going to be to the best
• 21:18
  of their ability no matter what. Oh, most definitely.
• 21:21
  Thank you, guys. Hey, my man.
• 21:22
  Thank you, Mike. All right, let's keep it going
• 21:25
  here with our next interview. Coach wants you to introduce
• 21:27
  yourself and where you coming. From absolutely yeah.
• 21:29
  My name is Marlon Hargrove with JL flight crew out of Houston,
• 21:32
  TX. You know, I don't think we've
• 21:34
  met anybody from Oregon. I just thought about that
• 21:35
  because I'm like where you from? I was like, what, You're from
• 21:37
  Oregon, but. No one to Morgan.
• 21:39
  Right. Yeah, Yeah, a bunch of Texas.
• 21:40
  Texas is definitely representing out here.
• 21:43
  Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
• 21:45
  So it's really exciting to see some of the athletes that we've
• 21:48
  seen at some of the meats that we go to and whatnot.
• 21:50
  So it's really exciting to cheer them on as well.
• 21:53
  Yeah. So, you know, I'm always
• 21:54
  fascinated because you have this.
• 21:56
  Obviously, this is a great meet here, you know, Nike Town USA,
• 21:59
  if you will, track Town USA here at University of Oregon, Hayward
• 22:01
  Field. But there's choices.
• 22:03
  There's there's other meats and things that are going on as
• 22:06
  well. Why from Houston come all the
• 22:07
  way up here to Eugene. Oregon.
• 22:09
  Well, it's a very good question. I've got a couple of athletes
• 22:11
  that's going to be competing out here.
• 22:13
  It's my first time actually coming out to Eugene as well as
• 22:15
  to Track Town USA. So it's really exciting to be
• 22:18
  able to come out here and kind of be with them as they compete
• 22:21
  later on today, yeah. And then maybe you had another
• 22:23
  incentive as well. I think you got a a little one
• 22:26
  that's a big Oregon Duck fan. Yeah, my, my, my, my.
• 22:30
  Son Marlon Junior, he is an extremely huge Oregon Duck fan,
• 22:34
  so I had to bring him out here with me so he can kind of see
• 22:36
  the facility, see the campus and all that kind of great stuff.
• 22:38
  So I've got to ask, though, you know, you're in Houston, you're
• 22:42
  in Texas. How does 1 become an Oregon fan
• 22:45
  all the way down there? Well.
• 22:47
  I'll tell you what, I'm going to let him answer that.
• 22:48
  So why don't you tell us why you're an Oregon fan?
• 22:51
  I'm an Oregon fan because I just see they just play good baseball
• 22:55
  and football. So I just say, oh, I'm that I
• 22:58
  might go over there. They might, they might recruit
• 23:01
  me and stuff like that. But like why, why I like Oregon?
• 23:05
  It's because I had a football team that was the Ducks and I
• 23:08
  and, and I specifically saw their highlights for I can get
• 23:12
  better on the. Football at that, kind of.
• 23:15
  Cool. Did you pay attention to them
• 23:16
  this football year and and how good they did?
• 23:18
  Yes, Sir. What was the There was a
• 23:20
  receiver. They had Tess Johnson, I think
• 23:22
  it was name Ortez. You remember him?
• 23:24
  Yes, Sir. So I went to the number one
• 23:28
  greatest university in the world, Troy University down in
• 23:30
  Alabama. And Tess actually started at
• 23:32
  Troy. So I was a big organ and Tess
• 23:34
  fan because he was a Trojan first.
• 23:36
  So wow, I was watching him just when you were watching him, I
• 23:39
  was watching him too, rooting him on.
• 23:41
  Well, I'm glad you're here, man. There's a cool town, cool
• 23:44
  college here and you have no doubts with their tour, you know
• 23:47
  somewhere else you're going to go to school and do big things.
• 23:49
  Whether it's baseball or something else, you're going to
• 23:51
  do a lot of great things. So coach, what do you got going
• 23:55
  on? You brought some kids up here.
• 23:56
  What events are we looking at? What's already been done and
• 23:58
  what's to continue? With well we're looking at going
• 24:01
  to be looking at triple jump, championship level, triple jump
• 24:04
  later. Coach Mia Maxwell, one of the
• 24:07
  Maxwell twins there as well as tomorrow, pretty good.
• 24:13
  They're really, really good. I love what they do.
• 24:15
  I love their passion. As well.
• 24:17
  As well as her sister Mia, Mariah will be doing long jump
• 24:20
  on tomorrow as well as we'll have Sydney Sims from Elkins
• 24:23
  High School we'll be competing in long jump tomorrow as well.
• 24:29
  Well, the twins are going into their 12th year there as well as
• 24:32
  Sydney also will be going into our 12th.
• 24:34
  Year. This year, yes, yes.
• 24:48
  Really excited about that as well as got I got a few others
• 24:51
  just coming, some freshmen, some sophomores coming.
• 24:53
  So I really love getting the the athletes at that stage so we can
• 24:56
  really focus on the development and the technique and all that
• 24:59
  kind of great stuff. So it's really good tell.
• 25:01
  Me the name of the. Club again JL flight crew.
• 25:06
  Yeah, Yeah. Well.
• 25:09
  Well, you know, it's, it's a really funny story.
• 25:11
  Before I just became jail flight crew, I used to be with GH ready
• 25:17
  Houston Track Club, same 1 I believe you've talked to Danny
• 25:20
  McRae with. And before our throwing coach
• 25:24
  used to call my jumpers, the GH flight crew And then on my hand
• 25:28
  on my it was Twitter, now X now it used to be jump life coach.
• 25:32
  So I just put the JL and flight crew and put it together.
• 25:34
  That's kind of how I came about. Yeah.
• 25:35
  It's fascinating to me. Help people come up with their
• 25:38
  club names and you know someone see you know, they're like fast
• 25:40
  feet and like it's kind of boring.
• 25:42
  I like JLS and some of the other.
• 25:44
  Ones that exactly, exactly. I mean the jump life comes from
• 25:47
  not just a jumping coach, but I try to also think about life
• 25:50
  things with athletes as well too.
• 25:51
  Sometimes everything is not about just the athlete part,
• 25:54
  it's mental as well too. So I want to see them.
• 25:55
  Succeed in everything, So absolutely.
• 26:01
  Absolutely. Well, it's cool.
• 26:03
  We'll be rooting for you. It's cool with their juniors, so
• 26:05
  we'll see you here next year. Absolutely.
• 26:07
  We can go ahead and book it. I appreciate.
• 26:09
  It I don't even know if you noticed you did that.
• 26:11
  It's like unconscious. You should get like Yep, see you
• 26:13
  next year. Exactly.
• 26:14
  Well, thanks for being here. Thanks for being with us here
• 26:16
  today as well. You are officially our youngest
• 26:18
  person we've ever had on the podcast.
• 26:20
  That's right. You can put that in your Twitter
• 26:22
  and you better not have Twitter. All right, guys, thanks for
• 26:24
  being here today. We'll get ready for our next
• 26:26
  interview. All right, As we stay dry out
• 26:30
  here in Eugene, OR, we've got our next interview.
• 26:32
  Coach want you introduce yourself.
• 26:34
  And my name is Kendrick Seeley and they head cross country
• 26:37
  coach and track coach for. Homestead High.
• 26:39
  School located in in Cupertino. California.
• 26:44
  Which is very close to the Apple Corporation company.
• 26:48
  Yeah. You're telling me you're like a
• 26:49
  mile when you started out saying, yeah, we're a mile.
• 26:51
  It's like, well, if you start with a mile, it's automatically
• 26:53
  you're super close to Apple's campus out there.
• 26:56
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we can literally run from
• 27:00
  school right to the campus if you want, and turn around and
• 27:02
  come back. Yeah.
• 27:04
  Are there any advantages or disadvantages to that?
• 27:06
  Like I'm just thinking like traffic or sponsorship or
• 27:10
  internship. I don't know.
• 27:11
  Is there any advantages or disadvantages to being so close
• 27:14
  to a company as big as Apple? I mean, the pluses is that we,
• 27:19
  we get a lot of people coming from all walks of you know, of
• 27:25
  company countries and coming in. And the upside to that is that
• 27:31
  they spend a lot of money. Cost of living in that region
• 27:35
  could be very expensive, but what it does, it keeps the cost
• 27:41
  of housing and certain things at a high level where in regards to
• 27:50
  you know, getting a good, I guess a good response for your
• 27:54
  money becomes very critical does.
• 27:58
  That you mentioned about the people coming into work, which I
• 28:00
  didn't even think about. So do you have a pretty cultural
• 28:06
  like I'm thinking like a lot of different kids at your school,
• 28:09
  like from different? Countries, yeah.
• 28:10
  So, yeah. So I don't know.
• 28:12
  So, so in our school district we have 5 different schools and
• 28:17
  Homestead and all the fibre them Homestead is one of the most
• 28:21
  diverse. So we have we have a straight
• 28:24
  across the board. We got, we obviously got a high
• 28:25
  population of Asians, then we got Indians and then we got
• 28:30
  Caucasians. We got some Hispanics and then
• 28:33
  we got, you know, small, you know, small population of, you
• 28:37
  know, of African Americans. That's.
• 28:39
  Really cool. Well, what brings you up here to
• 28:42
  Eugene OR why? You know, you've got choices.
• 28:43
  And I know this one maybe is a little closer on the West Coast
• 28:46
  here, but why here in Hayward Field?
• 28:49
  Because of the appeal, the allure.
• 28:51
  I mean, obviously, you know, we always hear the story about
• 28:55
  Hayward magic and definitely there's something to that.
• 28:59
  And then couple of that too, we also, we have, I have, I bought
• 29:03
  5 athletes here for, you know, to run in, you know, middle
• 29:08
  school and high school. And it's, you know, so far it
• 29:12
  has gone well. We all middle school kid so far
• 29:16
  he has set some high standards for our county, for California
• 29:20
  and then also in the USA. He's he's inside the top ten As
• 29:26
  for this for miles right now. So it's been a, you know, this
• 29:30
  is our third run at it and we really like it.
• 29:34
  Unfortunately, the weather is not cooperating.
• 29:37
  And, you know, if you're a distance runner, you know,
• 29:39
  distance runners are pretty tough.
• 29:41
  But, you know, I guess the comfort of coming to attract me
• 29:46
  becomes a lot more difficult because it's raining all the
• 29:48
  time. Yeah.
• 29:49
  Yeah, these are what we call character building.
• 29:52
  Yes, yeah, it's a test. Survive here.
• 29:53
  You're going to survive. Every track.
• 29:56
  Yes, there's a test. Yeah, definitely there's a test.
• 29:58
  Your medal and and you know make you appreciate whatever you know
• 30:03
  from other places. You know, no complaining when
• 30:06
  it's 70° now. No, you did a lot less than
• 30:08
  that. And rainy so yeah, but.
• 30:11
  Definitely put things in perspective then, but it comes
• 30:15
  to track and field, you know? Yeah, well, you know the.
• 30:18
  Backbone of our company and for me personally, as well as track
• 30:21
  coaches, man. So we're just so glad, so
• 30:23
  honored that you would do what you do, that you chose to be a
• 30:26
  track coach. We're just so grateful and so
• 30:27
  thankful for what you do and so glad you brought kids up here to
• 30:30
  Eugene. You're giving them a great
• 30:31
  experience. So we're it's really cool to
• 30:33
  kind of watching the sidelines. Yeah, I appreciate that too.
• 30:36
  Yeah, it's, yeah. I mean, track, track and feel.
• 30:39
  It's, you know, it's world renown and it's, you know, it's
• 30:43
  a, it's a great neighborhood to hang out in.
• 30:46
  You know, everybody's friendly, you know, everybody wants, you
• 30:50
  know, all the kids to perform at a high level.
• 30:53
  Even the ones that have disappointment, you know,
• 30:55
  there's always someone they're trying to uplift them.
• 30:59
  So it's definitely a great atmosphere to be in and very
• 31:02
  glad that, you know, we were able to come here again and for
• 31:06
  taking this great atmosphere and hopefully I'll see tomorrow the
• 31:10
  weather the. Weather's.
• 31:11
  Supposed to be a little much better.
• 31:13
  So we thank God for that. But, you know, we'll keep coming
• 31:17
  out here as long as we, you know, we can see fit, see fit on
• 31:22
  doing that, yeah. A little bit.
• 31:24
  Well, thanks for. Joining us here today, man, I
• 31:26
  really appreciate it. Good guy.
• 31:27
  I appreciate joining you. And you know, this is this is
• 31:30
  what we look forward to every year.
• 31:32
  Yeah. Absolutely.
• 31:33
  Thank you. Thanks, coach.
• 31:34
  Bye. Bye.
• 31:35
  All right, that brings day three to a close.
• 31:39
  The weather didn't cooperate, but the coaches and athletes
• 31:42
  did, including a national record and I'm hearing an age group
• 31:47
  like 16 year old world record in the 800 meter dash for the boys.
• 31:52
  Cooper Luton House just continues to set a record.
• 31:55
  He set the high school national record last week with a 146.
• 31:59
  This the day he set it, reset it with a 145.
• 32:03
  Interestingly, we had Cooper's dad George on the podcast.
• 32:07
  You might want to go check out his episode because we talked
• 32:09
  about Cooper just a little bit in the background he has with
• 32:12
  his family. So thanks for joining us here on
• 32:13
  day three of the Nike Outdoor National Championships.
• 32:16
  We'll be back back for day four, praying for better weather and
• 32:20
  just awesome athletes and coaches.
• 32:21
  Talk to you guys soon. Thanks for being here.