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BONUS: USTFCCCA 2023 LIVE: Sarah Klemme-UW-Parkside · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Hey gang, you know we like our bonus material.
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  So from today all the way through USTF CCA, in celebration
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  of our live podcast recording at the convention, we're going to
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  play you last year's clips, each one individual from today all
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  the way up until Monday, December 16th when we go live on
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  YouTube at 6:00 Eastern Time. Join us if you're at the
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  convention, sit down. We're going to be talking about
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  your feelings, actions, thoughts about the way the NCAA is
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  changing and we're going to make some predictions for next year.
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  And every guest that sits down with us will you get a exclusive
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  free gift? So join us December 16th, 6:00
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  PM Eastern Time for the Gill Live Connections podcast on
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  YouTube and at the USTF CCCA Convention.
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  Here is bonus material. Because first of all, each one
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  is, I mean, there's some similarities.
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  I can get it. Of course, when you throw that
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  javelin in there that's it's more horizontal than a circular
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  thing. But then you're also typically
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  stereotypically, oh, you're going to do our weight room for
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  us and you're going to do weight room for the sprinters and the
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  jumpers and distance runners. You know, you have to be kind of
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  on your game if you're going to be a close coach.
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  What, what was it for you? How do you handle that?
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  Was it the mentors that you've had?
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  How do you handle the game depression?
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  Yeah. So I don't actually do our
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  weight training. We have a head strength
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  conditioning coach, Carly Taylor.
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  She's been on. This podcast, I'm going to set
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  that up for her Carly to drop the name.
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  She's fantastic. I love her to death.
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  She's definitely healthy, like he's definitely been a mentor
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  for me. And Nick Moss, my boss, he's the
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  director track field. You really do have a lot of
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  great people. I.
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  Know like I'm really lucky. Like, really lucky.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So yeah, it's basically just like the mentors that I've had
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  and definitely like the coaches I've had previously, like I've
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  had them at like the perfect times in my life.
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  Oh, interesting. Yeah, like I've had, I went
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  through some stuff my read for my freshman year of college.
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  So my high school coach, love her to that.
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  She's fantastic. I couldn't have had her in
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  college because I would have probably quit track.
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  But the coach that I didn't have in college.
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  Was fantastic. So what my coaching college,
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  college, my coaching track and field.
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  And what I mean by that is, you know, there there's very few
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  people that probably know coaches as people better than I
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  do because of the podcast, you know, to look at the episodes.
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  I mean, and we get deep, like, why are you doing the track and
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  all this kind of stuff? And I'm always like eager
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  impressed, like all these men and women here could, you know,
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  someone here could cure cancer. Someone here could run a non
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  profit that would help homeless people.
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  Someone over here could be, you know, an amazing math or
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  science. I mean, the talent level is
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  amazing. And yet we choose to help people
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  throw up 4K ball farther. Why?
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  As you were thinking about going into college, thinking about
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  majors to pick, think about a career, why coaching track?
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  It was actually kind of funny. Coaching track just kind of fell
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  into my lap, so I was originally going to school for to be a
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  doctor. And then?
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  Yeah. And I never went to school to
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  be. And then my GPA was not good
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  enough, so I was like, OK, maybe.
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  We do have a lot in common, yeah.
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  So maybe not a doctor. And then I was like, I was like
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  debating if I want to be like a high school biology teacher
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  because my degree is in biology or like a physical therapist.
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  And then I so I did like a practical, so basically like
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  shadowed. And I was like, absolutely not.
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  I could not be a teacher. Yeah, seriously.
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  Fantastic people. But I could not do that.
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  Like it was insane. And then I was like, OK,
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  physical therapy sounds fun. Didn't get into physical therapy
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  because my GPA was bad. But then my my assistant coach
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  actually knows Carly so they were like, you should apply.
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  And so here I am. I love that journey.
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  Yeah, that's really cool. I'm a tattoo guy and I can't
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  help but see what what do we got going on there?
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  Yeah, no, it's my cat Prince and me and the they passed away.
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  Oh yeah. So it's like an honorary.
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  I love that. That's really cool.
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  Sorry I'm a hidden tattoo, but everything else is hidden.
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  But I really like what's going on over.
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  There. Yeah, I know that.
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  Yeah. I'm so glad you're here.
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  I know exactly what that. Is luckily it wasn't like me
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  personally and it was just like for my family, OK, But this was
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  like my first one when I was 19. I was like, yes, this is what I
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  wanted it for years. That says a lot about you.
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  So it really does. I love.
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  That and then I have another one for my family.
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  I'm on my ankle. It's their birth flowers.
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  So my mom, my dad and my brother and myself.
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  Sounds like family's pretty important.
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  They definitely are. It's a little complicated now,
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  but. Is it life?
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  Yeah, no. No, no, yeah, yeah.
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  It's definitely just life. My parents got divorced in like
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  2021. So it was like recent.
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  Yeah, yeah. So it was like tough like
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  figuring that out as an adult because normally you're like,
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  oh, you're a kid. You're like 9 or 10 when your
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  parents. Get divorced and I hate that
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  happen too. The track coaches do amazingly
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  is turn some of the trauma that they've had to help countless of
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  other young people, right. So you have this ability now to
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  take this hurt, this damage and go help some other 18/19/20 year
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  old kid that has no ability to figure this out because you have
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  to figure figure it out yourself.
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  So I've. Definitely told my athletes
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  that. I'm like, I've literally been
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  through so much weird stuff. You.
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  Like. You could.
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  Not believe it, say that it's OK, it's live.
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  There's no there's no blue button on that.
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  Like I've been through some like, weird stuff.
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  Like it's been weird. Like I've had two surgeries,
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  like my parents got divorced, Like I've been in a car
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  accident, Like I've been through some weird stuff.
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  So let's have a little fun. How about that?
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  Yeah, I've got 100 random questions here.
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  You get to pick the number, I get to ask the question.
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  OK, my favorite number is 23 so I have to go.
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  With that 23, Yeah. Gilligan Thailand was BS.
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  What did you grow up thinking was going to be a bigger problem
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  than it really was? And why is it quicksand?
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  I thought quicksand was everywhere.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, like, oh, everywhere
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  I go, I'm going to have to make sure I lay flat and don't
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  struggle. Yeah, right.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree.
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  Yeah. Sarah, I love you, Dad.
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  Thank you so much for being here today because you're here and
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  only because people that sit the seat after we've got a custom
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  field connections podcast Christmas morning for you it.
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  Just. Doesn't meant to say thank you
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  for us. Thank you for being here.
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  I saw these on Twitter and I was like I need you all.
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  These that's why you're here. That's the only reason just
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  using me for. Christmas I also wanted to meet
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  you. You seem really.
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  Cool Sarah, I hope that you know we're live.
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  So I give you a love. Thank you so much.
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  You you're doing a great job. Thank you.
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  Thank you so much. Appreciate you.
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  Thank you. You know, it's amazing.
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  I I, I always say the people who choose to be a track coach, not
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  coach, right? It's it's the people that are
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  behind it. Sarah's a great example of, you
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  know, at the end of the day, we take off that coach title and we
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  are people. We're Sarah's.
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  We're Greg's. We're Mike's.
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  We're Steve's. That's who we are, first and
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  foremost. And please, don't ever, ever
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  forget that. Don't.