Head Track and Field Coach at Kalamazoo Central High School: 2024 MHSAA Men's D1 State Champions
Kalamazoo, MI
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Since 2021 at Kalamazoo Central:
43 Events as Conference Champ
32 Events as Regional Champ
64 State Qualifying Events
23 All State Performances
4 Individual State Champs
46 School Records
2 Conference Champion Teams
1 Regional Champion Team
1 State Champion Team
#TRACKCITY
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If you're a high school kid and someone says you can't run sub-50 (boys) or sub-60 (girls) in the 400 without a bunch of endurance and over-distance work, they're lying to you (or don't know any better).
You can, and you never have to sprint more than 200 meters in practice.
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Feeling myself a little, because I jumped onto a 40 inch box yesterday at Speed Club with the kids.
What an athlete. An unbelievable physical specimen.
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Offseason sprinting doesn't have to be complicated.
Pick some workouts. Cycle through.
3x 40 Y Dash
5x 30 M Hills
3x 10 M Fly
5x Wickets
Speed-Power Circuit
Pair with plyometrics each day. Done in an hour or less.
Stack high quality outputs and watch the results pile up.
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Tyler Germain retweeted
Track Football Consortium 2026 is confirmed.
💥 December 11-12
💥 Elmhurst University
Tickets go on sale OCTOBER 1ST. 🎟️
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I tested @freelap and @OVRPerformance simultaneously for 40 yard dash yesterday in order to see how the two times compared. I wanted to know if the new system (OVR) would yield comparable times to Freelap so my compiled year-over-year data remained relevant. 🧵
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The athlete ran three attempts. The results are below, presented as the Averaged Freelap Time / OVR Time Rounded to the Tenth of a Second.
Rep 1: 4.935 / 4.93
Rep 2: 4.875 / 4.87
Rep 3: 4.835 / 4.86
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Speed Club, our offseason sprint training program, starts today. Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour after school. One of the biggest contributors to the success of our sprint/jump/hurdle program has been the consistent, high-output work our athletes do. I'm ready!
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Tyler Germain retweeted
Wait....What??!!!!
Attention youth coaches - listen up!!! (Not trying to point fingers in my area but🤔🤔)
If you don’t rest to full recovery between sprints…
You’re not training speed. You’re doing conditioning.
Save this thread & make sure you show every coach & athlete you know who is turning speed into conditioning
Let’s make fast athletes. Not slow ones
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Quick question for anyone who has switched from Freelap to OVR: how are you setting up your 40 yard dash so your times are comparable to your historical Freelap data? Thanks!
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Had the chance to sit down with @MikeCunningham for the @GillAthletics Connections podcast. If you want to hear us yap, check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Tyler Germain retweeted
Hurdles changed my life.
And that's not original, cause they've changed so many other people's lives for the better too.
Like this week's guest on the Gill Connections Podcast.
@TrackCoachTG's life changed because of hurdles. Can you relate?
LINK: pod.fo/e/5508b5
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Thanks for having me on the podcast! Enjoyed our conversation!
Hurdles! Hurdles! Hurdles!
Sat down with @TrackCoachTG to learn his journey in this great profession. It was molded by the hurdles.
You KNOW I LOVED that!
pod.fo/e/5508b5
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Our sprint training has been very heavily influenced by @pntrack and #feedthecats.
We've had at least one sprint relay team on the podium at state finals every year since 2022.
2022 - 4x100
2023 - 4x100
2024 - 4x100 and 4x200
2025 - 4x200
2026 - 4x200 and 4x400
Not too bad!
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