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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Micah Clemons-Univ of Montevallo · 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
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  you'll see the URL. Check us out December 11th, 5:30
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  PM Denver time. Hey, so it is 705 officially we
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  said to seven, but we are going to keep going as long as there
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  are people out here that want to be on the show.
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  We're going to keep going until there are no more or until 7:45
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  because that's when we're going to go to dinner.
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  I'm kind of a hungry guy here, right.
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  All right. Introduce yourself to the
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  listeners here today. I'm Micah Clemens, not coach at
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  Lean Person Manava. Yeah, we want to hear you.
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  Yeah, yeah, We're doing airplane style, man.
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  We get up, get up in here, man. Micah.
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  So Micah, this is your second time here at the convention.
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  You now you kind of know what to expect last year you kind of
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  like, you know, eyes and the, you know what you're doing and
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  what to expect. Now you know what to expect and
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  everything. What are you most looking
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  forward to here at the convention?
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  This year, the biggest thing I'm looking forward to.
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  This convention is more so making more connections solely
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  because I do enjoy the symposiums and learning and
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  refreshing especially the most of some Bell zones are technical
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  base, some will be like personalities as well.
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  How to drain it after eventually.
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  But the connections part of and getting an input on another
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  coach is probably the biggest thing for me because it's not
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  just coming from one person as opposed to.
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  It being just from a couple people, we have different
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  perspectives when we make connections.
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  So how do you, as a young person in this profession, What's your
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  attack mode for networking? How's your style?
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  These things may be myself because I mean you come across
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  and try to be yes, you want to be professional to a but if
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  you're yourself then you can really put yourself in that
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  position to. Be seen in a way that others
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  might not. It's nontraditional, but the
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  good thing about it is that you put yourself out there.
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  People already know what to expect.
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  So that's not like Switch. They're like.
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  You're one way here and you're different way over here, but who
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  am I really getting? What's your style?
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  Like if you see a coach out there that you want to talk to,
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  you just go right up to him. Or do you wait till there's a
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  crowd and kind of sneak yourself in there and start laughing like
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  it's a joke? It's what's kind of your your go
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  to there. I'll just walk up.
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  I don't mind walking up and have a conversation or I specifically
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  have a specific question that kind of sticks out of my mind,
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  like, hey, I have a question for you.
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  I'm kind of pose that question first or of course introduce my.
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  Spot, you're like, hey, here's the question, don't worry about
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  who I am. Exactly.
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  It's just being personal. You want to be on a personal
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  level. It's kind of like culture
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  athletes. You want to be personal with
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  athletes to an extent and you don't want to necessarily.
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  Make them think or feel uncomfortable to where they
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  can't come and you. Know be them.
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  And you felt very comfortable last year coming right up to me
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  and like we kind of started off the base.
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  I was like not like I know this guy.
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  Like you actually kind of bring me words like me too.
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  I know this guy and it really was the first time we met.
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  I promise. But you know you just had such
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  that that kind of warming personality that it was just
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  like oh man. I feel like I know this dude you
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  know well let's see how well we do know you.
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  I've got 100 random questions here numbered one through 100.
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  The only part of the destiny you get to to do is you get to pick
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  the number. OK.
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  I mean numbers. I went through 100.
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  OK. Let's do. 66.
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  Oh, why 66? High school football.
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  That was my high school football number.
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  Yeah. I bet it's a good one, because I
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  bet it was. Yeah, let's talk sports.
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  What's your favorite sport outside of track and field?
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  I would say lately volleyball is growing on me.
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  Yeah. Is that right?
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  Volleyball, men's volleyball we had, I went to a division two
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  school of North Carolina, Park College and to be there four
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  years we had men's volleyball. And so going to those events
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  were unbelievable. We had nice programs.
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  They competed very well against Division One program because you
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  know Division One against division two, not a lot of
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  division two programs out there. Right.
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  Not a lot of men's programs in general.
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  Yeah, yeah. So being that energy and seeing,
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  it is just. It's a cool sport.
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  I became friends where I went to school at Troy University with
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  the women's team there and just learned how to play.
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  You know, not play, but you know the ins and outs of the sport.
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  It's it's a really, it's a really cool sport.
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  Well, Michael, wrap us up here today.
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  What are you looking forward to the most in the 2023 track
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  season? I am looking forward to growing
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  our family one growing the Falcon family.
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  And big thing is bringing in Lords generating exciting
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  throwers that we're going to be a part of our winning culture.
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  So I'm looking forward to a big season from the throwers I do
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  have now shout out to all my my Valafacos out there.
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  You know Martin Bulldogs 2 shot of the all.
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  Looking forward to the big season.
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  It's been a great fall for us and I'm just looking forward to
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  see how to do, you know. What I'm looking forward to the
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  most. You told me to send you my
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  address, which I did on Twitter, and I'm looking forward to my
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  shirt. You.
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  Know I got you. Hey man, thank you so much for
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  being the podcast. We end everyone with a selfie.
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  You don't get out that easy, man.
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  Awesome brother man. You're going to do great.
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  I'm looking forward to seeing your season.
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  This year. Thanks, man.
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  Yeah, Micah again, just what a great person, man.
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  Just really made me feel like I knew him forever last year and
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  was super excited to see him again here in 2022.
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