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Share My good friend Eric Dixon who just completed the USATF/IAAF Level 5 Academy is heading the Level 1 USATF school in Orange County Feb 18-19 2012. The minimum coaching level you need regardless of your country affiliation is a Level 1 certification. Consider it the High School diploma of Track and Field. It’s a [...]
Share So you want to be a professional Soccer player? or Football player? Do you have dreams of playing soccer in Europe? Then save this date: Feb 5-10, 2012 Here’s your chance to qualify for a professional soccer (football) tryouts in Europe. If you are between the ages of 16-18, or even as young as [...]
Share Many thanks to the NubiaGroup for assembling this awesome collection of 112 photographs from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. All sports, including the Opening Ceremonies, are included. My hats go out the athletes who competed. I’m tired of hearing excuses like “fear of getting sick” to “contaminated food poisoning from the [...]
Share WHEN: December 12-15, 2011 WHERE: JW Marriott Hill Country, located just outside of San Antonio, Texas COSTS: from $225.00 MAIN WEB SITE: http://www.ustfccca.org/ustfccca-convention SCHEDULE: http://www.ustfccca.org/ustfccca-convention/convention-schedule The USTFCCCA Track and Field Convention is highly recommended because it has a huge selection of lectures in their Symposium as well as getting certified by the Track and [...]
Share When: December 17, 2011, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm Where: Merritt College, 12500 Campus Drive, Oakland, CA Cost: $50 Instructors: Roosevelt Kent Micheal Reid Adarian Barr If you want to go to a track and field clinic that has active hands-on participation, and learn the real ways to make you run faster, this is the [...]
Share WHEN: Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 15:00 – Saturday, 07 January 2012 at 20:00 WHERE: USOC Olympic Training Center – Chula Vista, California Cost: Tuition – $600 Room & Board (Shared Room) – $600 Room & Board (Single Room) – $920 Offering: USATF/IAAF Academy diploma and certification upon completion of all components of the [...]
Share Gary Reed announced today the public launch of the Reed Athletics Fund, the first non-profit of its kind, founded and funded by a Canadian Olympian. Reed, 6-time 800 meter Canadian champion and record holder, 2 time Olympian, and 2007 Silver Medalist in the World Championships, retired from athletics in 2010 and founded the Reed [...]
Share London 2012 and Atos, the Worldwide IT Partner for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, today officially unveiled the Technology Operations Centre – the mission control for all 94 Olympic competition and non-competition venues. The launch follows the first phase of the London Prepares Series, during which the London 2012 technology team together with Atos, [...]
Share WHEN: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 WHERE: St. Louis, Missouri What is it: The Podium Education Project, PEP, is an annual High Performance Coaches Symposium which brings elite coaches and sport scientists together to review and present some of the most cutting edge methodology and coaching practices in the World. It is designed to provide [...]
Share Next to the Olympics and the IAAF World Championships, the NCAA “March Madness” Basketball Tournament is my favorite event. It’s simple… all you have to do is go 6-0 (or 7-0 if you live in fantasy land) on 3 consecutive weekends to win the National Championships. So Go Hard or Go Home. It doesn’t [...]
Share For 400 meter runners, there may come a day when you will be asked to move up to the 800 meters, especially if you are tall, light & lean, and haven’t improved over several seasons. For 800 meter coaches and athletes, you are probably asking yourself these questions: What the ideal mileage for 800 [...]
Share The PAUSATF Coaches Committee recognizes many influential coaches who have served in the association who have selflessly strengthened their sport through teaching, mentoring, and promoting their profession. Long time Humboldt State coach Jim Hunt was the inaugural award recipient in 2010. Criterion will be weighted heavily on coaches who were not only great coaches, [...]
Share I am a firm believer where you can never stop learning. I’ve promoted (and attended) several Track and Field conferences such as the latest offerings from the USATF, CACC, and UKA. As well, I also recommend books and DVDs from Amazon and Affiliates. USTFCCCA Track & Field Academy in another great resource for coaches [...]
Share The Sports Nutrition market is now dominated by the non-sporty consumer, thanks to “cultural image” and branding. Being seen with the right sports drink or snack, or a bottle of glorified water has an impact on today’s market. The most recent figures available value the Global Sports Nutrition market at a massive $4.7 B [...]
Share The fall season is a great time to get certified in any coaching discipline. The USATF Level 1 is no different. There are still several spots available depending on where you live. Level 1 schools are usually two or two-and-a-half-day courses where 21.5 hours are spent on track & field and related sport science. [...]
Share This is a summary of all the articles for October 2010 sorted by topic. Duplicates may occur if an article has multiple categories. 400 Meters 2 Secrets to Sprinting: Forward Lean and Longer Ground Contact Why the 4×400m Relay is the Best Event Ever Coaching 2 Secrets to Sprinting: Forward Lean and Longer Ground [...]
Share When: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 8:00am- 6:15pm prior to the start of the USATF Annual Meeting, December 1-5. Where: Virginia Beach, Virginia What is it: The Podium Education Project, PEP, is an annual High Performance Coaches Symposium which brings elite coaches and sport scientists together to review, and present some of the most cutting [...]
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Share 2011 has been a strange year starting with massive Flooding worldwide and then the Occupy <insert keyword here> movements. 2011 is also a very bad year in terms of Italy’s economics. We are in the news everyday, and since I live in Rome, I get so many emails from friends asking how things are [...]