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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Jason Cage-Westlake (GA) HS · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Hey podcast listeners, we're super excited about December
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  11th at 5:30 Mountain Time Denver Time when we're going to
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  go live once again on YouTube to record a live Gil Connections
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  podcast. To celebrate, we're giving you
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  bonus clips every day until then of last year's 2022 guests that
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  came onto the live Gill Connections podcast.
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  Check it out, look in the show notes below and you'll see the
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  URL. Check us out December 11th 5. 30
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  pm Denver time. All right, the crowd is
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  thinning. I think I scared everybody off
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  by saying that we were going to go to 7.
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  And. And that was it.
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  But I'm going to go on, if you're going to be here, I'm
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  going to be here. And they're going to be here.
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  We're going to keep going on here.
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  So we'll see. We'll see where it goes and what
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  happens here on the live taping of the Gill Athletics track and
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  Field Connections podcast. All right, we got our next
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  person in the hot seat. Go ahead and move up here for me
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  and introduce yourself. My name is Coach Cage.
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  I'm from Atlanta, GA, Head coach, girls coach at Westlake
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  High School. Jason, you did something today.
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  And I was very impressed with my friend.
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  So I'm a huge social media guy, as you know.
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  Right? Right.
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  You can always catch me on Twitter at Mike Cunningham.
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  It's that easy. And Jason here today said, hey,
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  he's out here at the convention. He's a high school coach.
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  There's only a few of you here. I shouldn't say a few, but
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  you're the minority in relation to college coaches here.
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  He put on Twitter. He goes, hey, if any of the new
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  college coaches want to learn more about Westlake High School
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  and our athletes, here's where I'm going to be between 5:00 and
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  7:00 PM, come check it out. I thought that was very
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  intelligent, my friend. Where does that come from?
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  Because no one else did it. And there's other opportunities
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  for me. Every college coach should have
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  said, hey, any high school coach here at the convention, I'm
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  going to be right here. If you want to talk.
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  Look at that. Where does that little ingenuity
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  come from for you, Jason? Well, you know, kosher man, I'm
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  just all about the kids putting them out there.
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  I make a lot of my connections scholarships by attending
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  conventions like these. Actually this is my first time
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  at the this kind of. Convention So.
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  Just wanted to come out here and meet a new set of coaches, put
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  our kids, advertise, our kids could live a lot of talent in
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  Georgia and even in the Southern region.
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  Will you be at the Georgia clinic over in Rome?
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  I'll be there, yeah. Let's make sure we hook up
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  there. So as you were planning this
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  your first time here at the USTFCCCA convention, you know
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  it's a big schedule, right? There's a lot of different
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  things you can do. What was something, some of the
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  things that you circled like, man, I ain't missing this.
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  For me, I'm going to the nuts and bolts breakdown just to
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  learning from a head coach perspective of how to run, get
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  better running and meet, get better run your organization of
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  your team. So that's one I.
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  Really Circle. It's ran by one of the coaches
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  at University of Tennessee, so I'll go ahead with that.
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  One, now put that hand back up because you know we are usually
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  we're an audio only podcast. That ring is about as big as
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  this hand, for crying out loud. You show that off at all times,
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  man. It don't be no shame in that.
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  Well Jason, we got kind of having fun here tonight.
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  You know, just laid back the live version here of the
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  Galapatix Connections podcast. So I've got don't be cheating on
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  my, it's my homework. Now I've got a random 100
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  questions. You get to pick the number of
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  which question is yours. Okay one through a. 100 Let's go
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  with #1. I love it, man.
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  We've had this one. This one was a good one.
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  Let's see what your answer here is #130 minutes or less.
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  What topping is never going on? Your pizza, my friend.
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  What topping that would be Black Olives I hate to taste.
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  That was the answer before. Now do.
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  You Do you just not like olives at all, or just on pizza?
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  Olives. At all.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's funny.
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  That's so far 2 two in a row. That's the question.
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  The answer No olives in taste. Man, you know, I'm.
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  I'm from down South, so I just like pepperoni chicken wings,
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  you know, things like. That.
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  Hey, I'm from Alabama. I know it, man.
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  Trust me. I'm with Iron Bone.
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  I'm with, you know, I went to the greatest university in the
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  world. Which one is that?
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  I went to Troy University. My my son's name is Troy.
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  Yeah, yeah, so. And my teammate over here, this
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  guy right here in the black shirt, he went to Coastal
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  Carolina and we just whipped their butt in the conference
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  championship game. So I'm having a good year.
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  You having a good year? Yeah, yeah.
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  So, Jason, as we round out tonight, tell us what's got you
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  most excited. What are you looking forward to
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  the most in 2023 with your track and field?
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  Team man. Record towards a lot, man.
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  Last year we had we hosted Christian Call me invitation.
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  Yeah, that's right. Two state record was broken.
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  Beaufort boys broken for Obama record.
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  Wow, our brother ran one. Time, but they won.
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  They ran fast that. They ran 40.0.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  I thought it was real close to that point.
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  Which is it? Still only one high school
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  that's broken 40. No, Okay, no.
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  It's another high school. I think maybe Fort BM Lawson, 39
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  High. OK, that's a couple years.
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  Ago. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I think you're right.
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  OK. Yeah.
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  When I was in high school way back in the day, I remember
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  there's one high school that did it, and I couldn't even guess
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  through the guys around the team.
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  I can see the. And it was like, man, breaking
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  40 seconds. Like, I guess that's a big deal
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  in college, brother. Right, Right.
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  High schoolers, get out of here. That's amazing.
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  Oh, yeah. So what else you looking for?
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  I'm sorry, interrupt. Oh, so you're looking forward to
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  the track news, man. Last year, we hosted the
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  Christian Comedy Invitational. We had over 4000 people there.
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  This year we're hosting the A J. To Real Invitational.
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  We're hoping for a big route there.
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  So just putting the kids, exposing the kids, getting
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  scholarships for not only whistling athletes but other
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  athletes. So I'm out here inviting coaches
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  to our meet. So we met a couple of them.
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  They're going to come. So too just to put George on the
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  map. Well, Jason, man, I love the
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  husle and I love the unique hustle.
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  I mean really when you when you tweeted that today, I was like.
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  Genius like that is like, that's some That's the kind of stuff
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  I'm going to steal eventually on Twitter, and I'll figure out how
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  to make it in my own way, man. I love them, man.
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  I thought it was a great job. Very.
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  It was a lot about your intelligence and character, my
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  friend. Let's get a selfie to end it
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  over here tonight. Mike, first time I'm meeting
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  him. I love it, baby.
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  Appreciate it. I'll see you in like a month or
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  so. Yes, Sir.
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  Hey, yeah. You know, we named this.
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  If you want to get on. I want you on.
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  All right, Harry. Love you, brother.
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  We're going to keep going. If there's people still waiting
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  at 7:00, I'm going to keep going.
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  All right, check in. All right.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I'll be here in a minute.
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  Yeah, World Records Shortest Gill Athletics Connections
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  Podcast ever. Check us out December 11th. 530
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  Denver, Co Rocky Mountain Central Time.
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