Divergent Thinking: Inside John O’Malley John O’Malley coaches cross country and track at Sandburg High School in the Chicago area. I’ve never coached cross country, so I know John best for the [...]
Evolution to Essentialism By Rob Assise, Homewood-Flossmoor High School I started my track and field coaching career at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 2004. Twenty-two years old, eight months [...]
Though My Lens 2018 I wrote my first “Through My Lens” in 2014 as simply my perspective on the IHSA State Meet. The “lens” thing has to do with the fact that I’m a [...]
TNT Festival of Speed The TNT Festival of Speed was inevitable. I hosted a Freelap Showcase (free) in 2014 to show some local coaches what Freelap could do. Back by popular demand, I hosted the [...]
Steve Jones and RPR Leadership Being a parent is difficult. Being a coach and a parent with a child who is an athlete takes it to another level. The scenario creates all kinds of expectations, [...]
Brian Registe, Marcellus Moore, Brendan Hanneman, Joe Stiffend A Clear Path to Win it All: How PN went from Bad to Good in the 4×2 My track-coaching sons, Quinn (PN relay coach) and Alec [...]
A Football Coach’s Guide to Feeding the Cats By Tony Holler Twenty years ago I stumbled into a training system that I coined Feed the Cats. Initially, the system was intended for fast-twitch [...]
Why College Football Coaches Love Track Athletes As I watched my number two runner leave early in his 4×1 exchange and I saw the white flag go up (I thought for sure we we’re out of [...]
Belleville West Invitational, 2015. My sprinter, Andre McGill from Madison (in black with green headband) vs. Coach Holler’s sprinter, DeVaughn Hrobowski. McGill set the meet record in this race, [...]
Brain Based Warm Ups By Dan Fichter Make sure your brain is ready to go. Over the years I’ll admit I’ve toyed with many different training systems from some pretty great researchers and coaches. [...]
