The Coaches Collab group on Facebook paneled a conversation about budgeting trends and tips in consideration of upcoming budget cuts. This discussion was led by Gabe Sanders of Boston University, Adrian Myers of Northern Illinois University, and Jon Hill of Rice University.

The group discussed lots of unique ways to cut your budget, but not your student-athlete's experience, with travel, recruiting, and more. We hope by rebroadcasting this discussion it will help you become a more savvy coach who can still thrive and survive coming out of this pandemic.

By the way, if you are on Facebook and not a member of the Coaches Collab group, please do yourself, your program, and your athletes a favor and go join now.

MF Athletics and the National Throws Coaches Association (NTCA) present a Virtual Throws Conference featuring Tom Pukstys. Tom is a two-time Olympian, six-time US Champion, as well as being the American record holder. He continues to train post collegiate and high school javelin throwers from around the country at his home base in Birmingham, Ala. In this episode he talks about his throwing days at the University of Florida, how he got into coaching, and most importantly his coaching philosophy.

This episode we talk with Auburn assistant coach in charge of vertical jumps and combined events Scott Richardson. We explore his coaching career through Eastern Kentucky, West Point, on to Auburn for the past 16 season. Topics discussed include meeting his wife at an Army versus Navy contest, adopting his second child, and a track equipment renovation project they kicked off in 2017.

It was no small decision to completely remodel their entire track equipment from pole vault to high jump to hurdles and more. We discuss what lead to such a big decision, the factors used to determine what equipment manufacturer to go with, and looking back after three years how's it going.

Whether you are in the exploration phase of a $300 piece of equipment or a $300,000 complete equipment overhaul, you'll learn some tips and tricks from Scott on how to vet your process to get what you want and need for your track program.

In today's bonus episode, we bring you a webinar put on by the American Sports Builders Association (ASBA) to the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA). While this was done through a video webinar, we felt the audio portion might provide you value when considering your track facility's potential renovation.

The webinar is hosted by Kaylee Derby of the ASBA and is paneled by Megan Buczynski-Principal Civil Engineer and Certified Track Builders Kristoff Eldridge and Paul Nagle. 

Thank you to ASBA and NIAAA for allowing this rebroadcast and being willing to allow us to bring this valuable topic to you in audio form.

JJ is the head coach of a small high school in the state of Mississippi that won their first ever state championship team title in 2018. In this episode we'll explore JJ's college coaching roots, why he decided to move to the high school level, and how he built Center Hill to a state championship team.

If you've ever thought you were at a program that didn't have enough money, or enough facilities, or enough coaches to win a state championship, this episode will help by giving you examples of how JJ built a program from scratch and turned it into a state championship winning team. Near the end, I put JJ on the spot and asked him for three pieces of advice to help a coach build a program, you won't want to miss what he says.

Blake has been a state champion, college conference champion, sub-4 minute miler, college coach, and so much more. In today's episode, we learn how Blake got into track and field, his journey to a Hall of Fame career at Missouri State, and the ups and downs of being a post-collegiate runner. We talk about the highs of becoming the 287th American runner to break the mystical 4 minute mile barrier and the lows of living in a two bedroom apartment with two other runners and a dinner table made of cardboard and a table cloth. Through perseverance and hard work, Blake became a successful college coach at several great institutions and then transferred his knowledge to become the Director of the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon. That's where we stop this episode. Be sure to tune in later for a part two where we'll pick up on his dream job at Drake opening up and what it takes to be the Director of the Drake Relays.

Originally airing 4/30/20 live on the USTFCCCA's Facebook page, Emma Delira of Pomona-Pitzer, Kari Kluckhohn of North Central College, Katie Wagner of UW-La Crosse, Kenneth Cox of Birmingham-Southern College, and Nicole Wilkerson of Middlebury College came together to discuss various topics including their coaching backgrounds and what makes coaching on the NCAA Division III level special, among others. 

This is an audio rebroadcast of their video event (which can be found on Youtube).

Joe does it all for the throwing world. Throws coach at James Madison Memorial High School, director/coach/co-founder of the Madison Throws Club and host of the 'throw BIG throw FAR podcast', there isn't much Joe hasn't and doesn't do for the throws community. In today's episode we discuss how he fell in love with the throwing events, why he started a throws club, and get in-depth into his podcast. Really appreciate Joe's insights on today's podcast about a throws-only club and how he treats summer meets.

MF Athletics and the National Throws Coaches Association (NTCA) present a Virtual Throws Conference featuring Gary Aldrich. Gary is the head coach (and throws coach) at Carnegie Mellon University as well as serving on the coaching staff for the 2021 USA Olympic Team.  Gary talks about motivation, the history of our sport, how he coaches successfully at CMU, and so much more.  

This is an audio broadcast of this Virtual Conference.  You can find the original video version of this on YouTube.

Today we bring you an awesome episode of the world's number one (and only) javelin podcast 'Through The Point'.  Hosted by Scott Fuchs, he brings you javelin throwers from around the country. In episode 8, Scott sat down with Gill Athletics' very own Tim Glover! Tim is our Construction Specialist at Gill focusing on track and field cages, sand pit forms, take-off boards, circles/toeboards, as well as serving as our javelin specialist (DUH!).  Scott and Tim have a great time talking javelin, you'll learn how Tim picked up the javelin growing up in a state that doesn't have it for a high school event (Illinois) as well as how he got to Gill, and how he balances working full time and being one of the top three javelin throwers in the US.

Hope you enjoy this episode. Be sure to check out 'Through The Point' for more javelin podcast fun!