The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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It is with the utmost gratitude and grace that we lift up the Evans family this week.  The track and field world has lost a great human being. #speedcity #68olympians Now that all conference championships have been contested, Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde update their "LLC Bowerman" lists.  What shifts did you see coming?!  Also, there is a highlight as to what is going on in California...

Cameron is the head coach of Washburn University, the Ichabods. We sit down and talk about his roots in track and field, how he became a decathlete, as well as his alumni status as an Emporia State grad assistant coach. We learn of his time at Limestone College as the head coach, travelling through west Texas before landing as the head coach of Washburn.  Uniquely, Cameron became the head coa...

What you want?  Track ain't got it!  Whatever you think we are going to talk about regarding DK's performance at Golden Games, it ain't it.  Clear your mind, open your ears and be ready to receive the words that come out of Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde's mouths.   #gems    **But first, Ms. Tianna Bartoletta gets the show started with a little info on a personal proj...

Today we talk with an important member of the track and field community who is 'behind the scenes'. Ervin is over the operations and facilities at the University of North Florida home to some of the largest track meets in the country. UNF hosts the A-Sun conference meet, the Florida High School State meet, the NCAA East First Round meet, and many others. Ervin talks to us about what this entails,...

Hey Wilson!  You'll get it once you start watching this week's episode ;)  DK Metcalf.  OOhwee, everyone has their two cents about the FB player taking a spot at Mt SAC this weekend.  Is this race a spectacle? A valid honest effort?  Is DK making career move?  Listen up for the perspective of Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde.    In what were they thinking....

Today we 'Kick Some Asphalt'! Jesse Herbst of Dayton HS in Kentucky let's nothing stand in his way. His alma mater has no track facility, yet he hosted a home track meet this past spring. Today we learn how he pulled off his Street Meet, as well as the benefits of hosting a home track meet without a facility. We then learn of his passion for his community in Dayton. As a legacy graduate of Dayton...

Whoop whoop!  Happy Athletics LLC day aka Friday y'all!  It has been a week, has it not?!  Well, as a must, TRACK IS BACK and there is no way we didn't forget at least one highlight from the prior weekend.  Did we address what you saw?  Phase 42, 8.44, The Cathedral, unmentioned 50.0 in the women's 400m, I mean...MAN!  If these results don't have you in your seat wond...

If you haven't listened to part 1 (Episode 102 back on May 10th) do yourself a favor and listen to that first. Then join us for today's episode where we pick up and meet Jeff Hartwig the track agent/manager, Gill Athletics' Pacer Brand Ambassador, high school pole vault coach, and USATF volunteer. Thankful for Jeff joining us to talk us through what the life of an agent looks like and we get a gue...

Hey there!  Thanks for joining us in season 2 of Athletics LLC!  What a week it has been for track and field...and Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde will tell you what stood out to them in the world of crazy marks/times being posted.  After they get all of that out of their systems, the big hashtag right now is #reinstate48 .  While the fight is going to bring the qualifying number...

The opportunity to sit down with a legendary coach such as Derrick Calhoun is a special treat. We learn the specialness of a 30 year coaching career as the girl's head coach at Morgan Park High School. Derrick takes us through the mindset change that had to occur to achieve the success that led to a 10+ year streak of 1st and 2nd place state team finishes.  After we talk Morgan Park, we go ba...

Happy Friday!  Thanks for joining us for episode 2 of Athletics LLC season TWO!!!  After going over what happen last week in TRACK IS BACK, we field a question from the audience...it's a great GROWTH question.  Then we venture over to the "dream" world and reveal which global city Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde think should be up next to host the Olympics.  What are you thoughts???...

Today we welcome the entire coaching staff of the US Air Force Academy. Led by 30+ year USAFA head coach Ralph Lindeman we're joined by vertical jumps coach Scott Steffan, distance coaches Ryan Cole and Matt Layten, throws coach Dana Lyon, and sprints/hurdles coach Devin West. The staff help us understand the uniqueness of a service academy and what it means to coach there. We get to talk boxing c...

Season 2!!!  Welcome to the next season of Athletics LLC, thanks for hanging out with us!  Track is back and is it ever!?  Performances from the weekend, when we usually would hear of fantastic relay performances, there were some individual performances were off the chain!  Speaking of off the chain, what the heck is going on in California???  Listen in to get the update o...

Today we welcome author Grant Overstake and sports psychologist Dr. Melissa White to the podcast to talk about the book Maggie Jumps Over the Moon. We learn Grant's motivation to write a Young Adult novel where the hero (Maggie Steele) utilizes the sport of pole vaulting in a quest for Kansas State meet glory to help her overcome a personal tragedy.  Dr. White provides an educational aspect o...

We're big fans of the hit YouTube show Athletics LLC. They produce funny, reverent, detailed conversations about the great sport of track and field and publish every Friday at 4pm cst. We are humbled to rebroadcast the audio version here at the Gill Connections podcast each Thursday. In today's MEGAPOD, we go behind the tiles and learn their individual unique journeys in the sport of track and fie...

Happy Anniversary Athletics LLC!  We did it!  We made it to a year of coming together, bringing forth knowledge/opinions, and having some good ol' fun!  Thank you all for joining us along the way and we appreciate you all.    Well, what do you do when you have such a dynamic coaching duo who also has a COLORFUL recorded athletic achievement history as well?  YOU...

Today we welcome the Director of T&F Operations for the brand new Gately Indoor Track and Field Center in Chicago, Illinois. We learn more about this exciting facility, as Craig walks us through everything Gately has to offer athletes and coaches around the country. Then we learn about Craig's upbringing in the sport of track and field, and the coaching stops along the way that have made him t...

We got it together this week folks!  Episode up in time and in an organized fashion...like we been doing this for 51 weeks or something ;)  Well, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?  This week Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde all start at the same point of "what were they thinking" but end up in some different spots with different paths!  First, Sir Lucious takes his seat back into the "hos...

Today we bring you part one of a two part series with pole vault Olympian Jeff Hartwig. In this episode we learn his journey to becoming a 14' vaulter in high school and a nearly 18' vaulter in college. Jeff's goes on to qualify for two Olympic teams but not without some pitfalls along the way, namely no-heighting at two other Olympic Trials. With Jeff's experience today, we learn the ups and down...

So due to technical difficulties you're getting just the raw version of our recording...no hype beats :(  I know, but we will live!   Starting off the night hot, we talk about what the highlights were for each of us from last week's NCAA D1 Indoor championships.  There was A LOT!  After those highlights, Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde update their "LLC Bowerman" picks, elevatin...

Honored to have the coaching staff from Virginia Wesleyan sit down with us. We welcome HC Jesse Weiner, sprints/hurdles coach Cameia Alexander, and jumps coach Dr. Richmond Letterio to the podcast. We learn their journey to coming to VWU and what's got them excited for the season. Then we focus on a unique form of fundraising they accomplished this winter for track equipment. Jesse walks us throug...

As promised, Big League turns over the reigns to Sir Lucious and we give our NCAA Indoor Championship predictions.  Sir Lucious gave the group certain events that we are going to give predictions to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.  In true competitive fashion we will tally the point total in then end to see who "wins"!  As this releases, some events will have already concluded so pick your...

After being tricked into becoming a decathlete at the University of California-Berkeley, Chris Huffins went on to earn two Olympic Team spots and culminated his athletic career with a bronze medal in 2000. Today Chris joins us to talk about his athletic journey and how that morphed into a coaching career spanning stops at Georgia Tech, Eastern Michigan, Wake Forest, Oklahoma, Purdue and more. We g...

We are HERE!  Checked in for another fun episode of Athletics LLC with Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde to stir the pot about some current topics sometimes related to the world of track and field and sometimes not.  We would be out of our minds if we didn't have some key points to highlight in #trackisback ​.  Fast times, far marks and teams showing up to do some serious work in confer...