Managing Parents in HS Sports: A Coach’s Communication Guide I’ll never forget the text message I received at 10PM on a Tuesday before the first day of school: “Why wasn’t my daughter in the top seven at today’s workout? She ran a 6:45 mile last spring. This doesn’t make sense.” The workout itself was simple—a…
Building a Championship XC Culture: Lessons from F-M, Niwot & Newbury Park If you study the nation’s most dominant high school distance programs—places like Fayetteville-Manlius, Newbury Park, Niwot, and Southlake Carroll—you start to notice something: their secret to success is hiding in plain sight. It’s visible in every practice, every conversation, and goes into every…
The Three-Ring Circus: How to Coach Multiple Training Groups It’s 2:50 PM on a Tuesday. The bell has rung, the locker room doors are banging open, and sixty high schoolers are spilling onto the track. You have your Varsity squad looking to qualify for States, a solid JV group that needs development, and a dozen…
How to Structure the Perfect XC Practice: A Daily Blueprint for High School Distance Programs The season was three weeks old when I realized we were wasting an hour every day. Athletes trickled in across a 20-minute window. Kids disappeared to the trainer one at a time, each taking 15 minutes. Warmup was chaotic—some kids…