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.

Sent the last post before I was finished. I agree that the 55 and long jump would probably have the most transfer. She continues to lift weights and I just have to be careful to not overtrain her. She is lifting on the days that her track coaches are calling “hard days”. With the lifting we’re trying to keep volume low. I’ve just got to carefully monitor what the track “easy days” consist of to make sure that she has adequate recovery and that we don’t need to eliminate lifting.