New sprinter needing help (History Provided)

[kelly_clinevell]

@ollie

-Having lots of jumping, hopping, and bounding the first day of practice is dumb. Be on guard for bad coaches.

-Having an athlete that’s never participated in track compete in the 55, 300, relay, long jump, high jump, and triple jump also doesn’t make sense, particularly if you don’t practice for them. That’s an injury waiting to happen.

-Not sure why all those events would be considered if your daughter isn’t in the fast group of girls.

-It takes time to learn to compete in a track race such as the 55 meters. It’s different than conditioning races for softball.

-If it were my daughter and she played softball, I would have her compete in just the 55 and long jump. I think training for and competing in those events would have the most transfer to softball.

-I would also make sure she’s spending some quality time in the weightroom. That will help with the short track events and softball.

Ollie,
She is considered to be in the fast group of girls. I’m not really sure what they are going to do in practice. Yesterday was the first day of practice after the first meet. She asked one of her coaches for some guidance as to how to run the 300. She was simply told “they call it a dash for a reason, you run all out the whole time.” She asked to clarify “You mean everything you’ve got the whole time? How is that possible?” Reply “You’ve just got to get stronger.”
The practice consisted of eight 50yard sprints with 15sec rest in between - 15 min break - six 50yard sprints with 15sec rest in between - 15 min break - four 50yard sprints with 15sec rest in between. I’m curious to find out what they did today.