Goodbye to High School By Tony Holler On February 18, 1959, I was born a teacher’s kid. My father, Don Holler, taught and coached for 47 years (Gridley, Flanagan, Shelbyville, Princeton, Oswego, [...]
The 4×4 Team Predictor I used to like Sectionals. Not anymore. Last year, 8 of my 15 all-conference athletes failed to qualify for the state meet. This year our defending state champion [...]
Spike Experimentation I had an athlete come visit me for an assessment. He had some lower leg issues and wanted me to take a look at what was happening. I filmed him and started breaking down his [...]
The Forgotten Ingredient of Feed The Cats By guest blogger, Alec Holler. Feed The Cats is a training philosophy that is highly adaptable to all different types of athletic training. FTC [...]
The Little Things As I have mentioned before, it is difficult to watch your own children go through sports. While my daughter seems to have navigated her way through her career, after some [...]
Right now is, unquestionably, the best time in history to be a track and field coach. That’s the beautiful thing about the evolution of mankind, and it’s what promotes excitement in each and [...]
Why is my guy losing already? I received an interesting question from a coach asking me why his athlete got beat by another athlete. The following is what he wrote: Runner X (the coach’s [...]
Managing Two-Way Players By Brad Fortney Two platoon is all the rage in today’s high school football. Seeing two-way players on a football team is becoming more and more rare. The rise of the [...]
“Speed training is really pretty simple. Why is there so much confusion?” -Tony Holler Assise: When I first read this, I had at least 15 reasons run through my head. After lots of thought, [...]
Applying Feed the Cats to the High School 400m Dash I’m not a college coach. I don’t think I would ever want to coach at the college level. Too much time. Too many choices. Too many [...]
