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(00:00):
Welcome to the Gill 1918 Project, a podcast series by
coaches, for coaches powered by Gill Athletics.
Think of this as the Ted Talks of track and field coaching.
Short, insightful, and packed with valuable strategies to help
you grow as a coach. We'll bring in the once a year
track clinic straight to your ears daily.
Interested in creating your own episode?
Everyone's welcome to participate.
(00:21):
Check out the show notes below For more information.
Now let's get into today's topic.
Hi guys, my name is Alan Wordsworth and I'm the jump
coach at Center Valley High School in Spokane, WA, which is
on the east side of the state. And 1st, I'd like to thank Mike
and Gil Athletics for the 1918 project.
(00:42):
It's been a cool series of podcasts.
My topic today is on how to promote the history of your
school's track program. And here at Central Valley High
School, this would be our 100th year of track and field for boys
and our 50th year for girls. And so it's not going to be an
(01:02):
XS and OS type podcast, but instead how I went about putting
together the history of our program.
And as you can imagine, going back 100 years, it was really
difficult to find some of that information.
But there's a couple of key things that I did that made it a
(01:22):
little more manageable. With that said, I initially
thought I was going to make a just a document, I guess, and
which is now turned into I'm up to the 1980s and it's 6070 pages
at this point. And so I'll explain that and how
we went about it. And to start, the the history of
(01:48):
Cinder Valley was always thoughtto be the school district was
formed in 1926. So we were kind of prepping.
We were going to do some T-shirts and throughout some
social media graphics next year.But to my surprise, I was
watching a basketball game and one of the commentators happened
(02:10):
to mention that our team had just played their 100th year of
basketball. And so I got to thinking, boy, I
wonder when track and field got started at Central Valley.
There was a lot of information online that proved to be
incorrect. And I certainly can see how the
historian that did that information got it wrong.
(02:33):
After I I found out what I foundout in my research, as odd as it
sounds, our district had no ideawhen our district actually
formed. Everybody thought it was like,
like I said in 1926. But I reached out to a local
small museum here in the valley and they're able to do some
(02:55):
research and find that our school actually formed in 1924.
And there was a series of basically one room schoolhouses
around the area. And then one of the larger
schools, which was called Vera High School, rented out their
upstairs floors to what would become Cinder Valley High
(03:15):
School. And for 1924, they just had
academics going on. In 1925 they added basketball,
boys track and boys and girls tennis, and once I found out
that information, I was able to track down our first coach, guy
(03:37):
named Lester Herman. He was a math teacher, track
coach and a football coach. And football may have started in
1925, we don't know for sure, but every year from 1925 to 1942
they played the Armistice game with West Valley High School.
The reason it's a little confusing is because in 1932
(04:02):
there is a picture that says Center Valley High School's
first football team. And that very well could be
because that was the first year they put in lights at our
stadium and it was the first school to have been played under
the lights. And it was also the first year I
think that they started playing actual leagues instead of a
(04:24):
invite type system. So we're not really sure about
football to be honest. But as far as track goes, there
is an actual picture of our 1925and 26 teams with Lester himself
and the boys. And one of our first athletes,
(04:46):
guy named Albert Turner, competed at the state
championships in 1925 and then 26.
And he would also be the first one to actually place at A state
championship. And back then, Washington, the
state track meet was held at in Pullman, WA at Washington State
(05:08):
University. And it was for all divisions.
So it was a true state track meet and most schools that
competed, especially back then pretty much resided in near a
train line. So if those kids were able to
get to a train and then travel to Pullman, they came from some
(05:28):
pretty good distances. And and actually the state track
meet goes all the way back to 19O 5.
During World War One they did not have a track meet and then
in 1920 they didn't have a statetrack meet, but they had some
really interesting events. They had the 42 inch turtles,
(05:50):
which was eventually discontinued.
They had the 50 yard dash. They had the hammer throw.
I'm imagining they didn't have acage, which would be quite
something to see, but it goes all the way back to 19 O 5.
So you're probably wondering howI would about compiling all this
information. The first thing I started with
(06:12):
was the Washington State Track and Field Annual, which is a
publication put out by Ryan Zakula, and you can find it at
washingtontrack.com. It's about 1/2 inch thick, cost
$25. It's a really cool publication,
everything track and field. It's got the previous year's
(06:35):
best results from all divisions in all events.
And then it's got historically, it's got usually the top 250
kids in every event. And then it's got some events
that are no longer contested. It's got information on college
(06:56):
kids in the state of Washington,Olympians from the state of
Washington. It's packed full of interesting
track and field information. If you are a track and field
fan, especially a statistics fan, even if you're not from the
state of Washington, it would beworth a read it.
(07:17):
Also, if you go to their website, there's an awful lot of
digitized information about track and field in Washington as
well. So that's where I started.
I contacted Ryan, he was able tosend me the programs from the
30s up until the 70s from most of the state track meets during
World War Two there was there was programs that were lost.
(07:42):
Who knows what happened to those, but I was able to find
out an awful lot of information from those programs.
And also I used the Spokesman Review, which is our newspaper,
which has everything scanned anddocumented.
And I was able to go year by year and look up information on
the various track programs around the area.
(08:06):
So the publication I decided to put together would contain our
league records, our district records, regionals and state or
whatever variation we had movingforward.
And so that's kind of where I, I, I started.
And then as I continued, I was able to find more information
(08:26):
from the Spokesman Review, whichis our local newspaper.
And they had digitized all theirpublications back into the
1800s. So I was able to just plug in
Sun Valley High School track andfield the particular year I was
looking for. And then I kind of hit upon just
searching the month of May and Ifound out an awful lot of
(08:49):
information on those track meets.
I would usually find more information as years went on.
It's amazing. They must had a huge staff at
the Spokesman in the 40s and especially the 50s prior to that
back in the 20s. Really interesting that it was
(09:12):
more of a a gossip newspaper because we I found out that
Lester, our original track coach, was off to Everett to
visit his family. But he was eager to get back to
start track practice. So I I found out really cool
information like that. And then as the 50s, as I got
(09:36):
into the 50's, the amount of information there was not only
our high school performances, but our JV performances, the
junior high performances were all listed.
As I got closer to the 1970s, you absolutely could tell when
television started take over themedia because the paper got
(10:00):
smaller and smaller and smaller.And the other interesting thing
was you're able to see the progression of events like the
pole vault. You could absolutely see where
they used bamboo poles jumping into sawdust.
And when the innovation of steelpoles and aluminum poles came
(10:20):
along, there's a big spike in their performances.
And then of course, when fiberglass poles came into
being, also another big spike you can see when they started
using starting blocks at the high school level.
Really interesting. Back to the pole vault.
I've got a picture of one of ourkids going 14 feet for the first
(10:41):
time and it is literally him over a crossbar.
His coach is standing down underneath and it looks like he
is falling straight down onto the ground and it's just a pile
of sand and that's what he's landing on from 14 feet, one
inch. So pretty amazing.
(11:02):
They also started adding a few more pictures in the 1950s and I
was able to grab those pictures and and use those for my
document. The problem was prior to that
the pictures were super grainy. But what I did find was I was
able to take an original pictureof Albert Turner from 1926 and
(11:26):
post him into ChatGPT and then it produced a modern rendering
of him, which is pretty cool. But what I noticed was the kids,
especially from the 50s back, we're a lot thinner than the
kids are today. And when ChatGPT makes a modern
(11:48):
interpretation of him, it puts alittle more meat on the bone.
I guess he's a little more chunky than he should have been.
So because he was definitely thin the back in 1925, but today
he's not when ChatGPT gets done with him.
So that was that was kind of my goal.
(12:10):
And like I said, I've just kind of progressed through most of
that information that I have found has been from our
newspaper, a little bit from thetrack and field annual.
And then the last thing I did was to make some graphics
because what we found is in 1925, we had a track meet
(12:32):
against Cheney High School, who,because we've dropped from 4A to
3A, is in our league again. And we were able to get both
teams together and take a picture of not only the boys
team, but the girls team celebrating 50 years of track
and field. And then our athletic director
who was doing the announcing, I happened to notice that we had a
(12:54):
couple of alumni kids and asked them to join the pitcher.
And as it turned out, there was a whole bunch of kids that were
now adults that were officials that were that happened to be at
the track and they're able to all get in the picture.
So we had a a really cool picture of about 100 kids to
(13:14):
celebrate our our 100th year of track and field and our 50th
year of track and field for girls.
The last thing we did was produce AT Shirt and especially
for, I happen to be a retired graphic design and photography
teacher, so to make up AT Shirt was pretty easy for me.
(13:36):
But I've talked to a lot of coaches that are like, well, you
know, I'd like to do this, but you know, I don't have the the
the knowledge, the software, those kind of things to put
together something like that andto be real creative.
What you can do is once again, use ChatGPT plug in what you
would like it to look like. And you do have to be very
(13:58):
specific, but it was able to produce some graphics that we
could use for AT shirt. So if you don't really have the
experience, you know, or the resources to find, you know,
somebody that can put together the graphics for AT shirt,
that's another option for you. So that was our our kind of our
(14:20):
celebration to the end of our our season this year.
And it was really fun. Kids seem to have a great time
with it and as well as the coaches too and we happen to
have I think this year our team is pretty big.
We have over 100 boys in our track team.
We have a little bit smaller girls team.
I think we had 47 all together. So we full both full time and
(14:44):
part time. We have 11 coaches, but we boast
this year was our record amount,303 years of track coaching
experience, which I guess that just means we're all pretty old,
but it was it was a great time. Just about everybody really
enjoys all that, the history of track and field and especially
(15:07):
when you have a rich history like we do, it was it was pretty
fun this season. The other thing I've done to
promote track and field is in between our school and our
gymnasium, our main gym there islike a small hallway that
connects the two, and we've put our track and field record
(15:29):
boards up and they're essentially A4 by 8.
If you can imagine the size of a4 by 8 sheet of plywood that's
hanging on the wall for both boys and girls, there's two.
And then each event that we havehas a picture of the athlete
usually competing, although there's a couple that are really
old that we just have a yearbookpicture of.
(15:53):
It's got the pitcher of the athlete on the left hand side
with their performance. And then on the right hand side
we've got the top 10 performances of all time.
And then it's got below that, the class performance.
So like freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, if they happen
to have won A state championship, then their
(16:16):
performances in gold, whether you're in the the number one
person or you're just in the after me in the top 10.
So that's kind of cool. I always notice we've got
basketball games that the crowd just gathers around to check it
out. Our athletes.
It's a big draw to increase our population of our sport.
(16:38):
The kids are always checking it out.
And boy, by the end of the season, as kids have started to
jump on to the top ten list and and break records, they're
always after me to get that updated.
So I think that's a great draw for track and field because
everybody that's what they do. They check out the records, see
(17:00):
if they can make it. And that's that's kind of the
goal. So that that's a a big draw for
us. On the opposite wall we have our
college athlete board, which is,yeah, it's similar to our track
and field records. It's the same roughly 4 by 8
(17:21):
size board. And we started with one that we
expanded it to. And around 2015, 2016, we just
had an incredible run of athletes.
So we had both sides completely packed.
And what it is, is it's a picture of our athlete and it's
(17:42):
got the sport that they're doingwhen they graduated and then
it's got those the university that they are attending and
participating in. And then we keep those up while
they're college athletes. So we've had 405060 athletes at
one time. There was a period of time when
(18:03):
we completely filled up both boards and then we had just the
pictures of the kids, you know, taped onto the wall right next
to him. Now that our population has
dropped a bit because at one time we had 2600 students in our
school and now we now that we'veopened a new high school, we
(18:25):
have about 1100. So we don't have as many kids
participating in college, But that's also a big draw for the
kids to be able to see how many are playing football, how many
are doing track, how many are doing basketball and where,
where are they bound off to. So I, I think that's been a very
big draw for our program and sports in general.
(18:47):
So that's about it. If you would like to get a hold
of me, just contact Mike. And once again, I'd like to
thank Mike and Gil Athletics forgiving me the opportunity to
talk about our program and what's going on at Cinder Valley
High School and, and the historyof track and field and how to
promote it. But once again, if you have any
(19:10):
questions, feel free to reach out to me.
Thank you. Hey gang, Mike Cunningham here.
Hey, I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Guild 1918
Project series. It's really my mission, my
passion to bring you massive amounts of value and I hope this
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(19:31):
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Welcome to the Gill 1918 Project, a podcast series by
coaches, for coaches powered by Gill Athletics.
Think of this as the Ted Talks of track and field coaching.
Short, insightful, and packed with valuable strategies to help
you grow as a coach. We'll bring in the once a year
track clinic straight to your ears daily.
Interested in creating your own episode?
Everyone's welcome to participate.
(00:21):
Check out the show notes below For more information.
Now let's get into today's topic.
Hi guys, my name is Alan Wordsworth and I'm the jump
coach at Center Valley High School in Spokane, WA, which is
on the east side of the state. And 1st, I'd like to thank Mike
and Gil Athletics for the 1918 project.
(00:42):
It's been a cool series of podcasts.
My topic today is on how to promote the history of your
school's track program. And here at Central Valley High
School, this would be our 100th year of track and field for boys
and our 50th year for girls. And so it's not going to be an
(01:02):
XS and OS type podcast, but instead how I went about putting
together the history of our program.
And as you can imagine, going back 100 years, it was really
difficult to find some of that information.
But there's a couple of key things that I did that made it a
(01:22):
little more manageable. With that said, I initially
thought I was going to make a just a document, I guess, and
which is now turned into I'm up to the 1980s and it's 6070 pages
at this point. And so I'll explain that and how
we went about it. And to start, the the history of
(01:48):
Cinder Valley was always thoughtto be the school district was
formed in 1926. So we were kind of prepping.
We were going to do some T-shirts and throughout some
social media graphics next year.But to my surprise, I was
watching a basketball game and one of the commentators happened
(02:10):
to mention that our team had just played their 100th year of
basketball. And so I got to thinking, boy, I
wonder when track and field got started at Central Valley.
There was a lot of information online that proved to be
incorrect. And I certainly can see how the
historian that did that information got it wrong.
(02:33):
After I I found out what I foundout in my research, as odd as it
sounds, our district had no ideawhen our district actually
formed. Everybody thought it was like,
like I said in 1926. But I reached out to a local
small museum here in the valley and they're able to do some
(02:55):
research and find that our school actually formed in 1924.
And there was a series of basically one room schoolhouses
around the area. And then one of the larger
schools, which was called Vera High School, rented out their
upstairs floors to what would become Cinder Valley High
(03:15):
School. And for 1924, they just had
academics going on. In 1925 they added basketball,
boys track and boys and girls tennis, and once I found out
that information, I was able to track down our first coach, guy
(03:37):
named Lester Herman. He was a math teacher, track
coach and a football coach. And football may have started in
1925, we don't know for sure, but every year from 1925 to 1942
they played the Armistice game with West Valley High School.
The reason it's a little confusing is because in 1932
(04:02):
there is a picture that says Center Valley High School's
first football team. And that very well could be
because that was the first year they put in lights at our
stadium and it was the first school to have been played under
the lights. And it was also the first year I
think that they started playing actual leagues instead of a
(04:24):
invite type system. So we're not really sure about
football to be honest. But as far as track goes, there
is an actual picture of our 1925and 26 teams with Lester himself
and the boys. And one of our first athletes,
(04:46):
guy named Albert Turner, competed at the state
championships in 1925 and then 26.
And he would also be the first one to actually place at A state
championship. And back then, Washington, the
state track meet was held at in Pullman, WA at Washington State
(05:08):
University. And it was for all divisions.
So it was a true state track meet and most schools that
competed, especially back then pretty much resided in near a
train line. So if those kids were able to
get to a train and then travel to Pullman, they came from some
(05:28):
pretty good distances. And and actually the state track
meet goes all the way back to 19O 5.
During World War One they did not have a track meet and then
in 1920 they didn't have a statetrack meet, but they had some
really interesting events. They had the 42 inch turtles,
(05:50):
which was eventually discontinued.
They had the 50 yard dash. They had the hammer throw.
I'm imagining they didn't have acage, which would be quite
something to see, but it goes all the way back to 19 O 5.
So you're probably wondering howI would about compiling all this
information. The first thing I started with
(06:12):
was the Washington State Track and Field Annual, which is a
publication put out by Ryan Zakula, and you can find it at
washingtontrack.com. It's about 1/2 inch thick, cost
$25. It's a really cool publication,
everything track and field. It's got the previous year's
(06:35):
best results from all divisions in all events.
And then it's got historically, it's got usually the top 250
kids in every event. And then it's got some events
that are no longer contested. It's got information on college
(06:56):
kids in the state of Washington,Olympians from the state of
Washington. It's packed full of interesting
track and field information. If you are a track and field
fan, especially a statistics fan, even if you're not from the
state of Washington, it would beworth a read it.
(07:17):
Also, if you go to their website, there's an awful lot of
digitized information about track and field in Washington as
well. So that's where I started.
I contacted Ryan, he was able tosend me the programs from the
30s up until the 70s from most of the state track meets during
World War Two there was there was programs that were lost.
(07:42):
Who knows what happened to those, but I was able to find
out an awful lot of information from those programs.
And also I used the Spokesman Review, which is our newspaper,
which has everything scanned anddocumented.
And I was able to go year by year and look up information on
the various track programs around the area.
(08:06):
So the publication I decided to put together would contain our
league records, our district records, regionals and state or
whatever variation we had movingforward.
And so that's kind of where I, I, I started.
And then as I continued, I was able to find more information
(08:26):
from the Spokesman Review, whichis our local newspaper.
And they had digitized all theirpublications back into the
1800s. So I was able to just plug in
Sun Valley High School track andfield the particular year I was
looking for. And then I kind of hit upon just
searching the month of May and Ifound out an awful lot of
(08:49):
information on those track meets.
I would usually find more information as years went on.
It's amazing. They must had a huge staff at
the Spokesman in the 40s and especially the 50s prior to that
back in the 20s. Really interesting that it was
(09:12):
more of a a gossip newspaper because we I found out that
Lester, our original track coach, was off to Everett to
visit his family. But he was eager to get back to
start track practice. So I I found out really cool
information like that. And then as the 50s, as I got
(09:36):
into the 50's, the amount of information there was not only
our high school performances, but our JV performances, the
junior high performances were all listed.
As I got closer to the 1970s, you absolutely could tell when
television started take over themedia because the paper got
(10:00):
smaller and smaller and smaller.And the other interesting thing
was you're able to see the progression of events like the
pole vault. You could absolutely see where
they used bamboo poles jumping into sawdust.
And when the innovation of steelpoles and aluminum poles came
(10:20):
along, there's a big spike in their performances.
And then of course, when fiberglass poles came into
being, also another big spike you can see when they started
using starting blocks at the high school level.
Really interesting. Back to the pole vault.
I've got a picture of one of ourkids going 14 feet for the first
(10:41):
time and it is literally him over a crossbar.
His coach is standing down underneath and it looks like he
is falling straight down onto the ground and it's just a pile
of sand and that's what he's landing on from 14 feet, one
inch. So pretty amazing.
(11:02):
They also started adding a few more pictures in the 1950s and I
was able to grab those pictures and and use those for my
document. The problem was prior to that
the pictures were super grainy. But what I did find was I was
able to take an original pictureof Albert Turner from 1926 and
(11:26):
post him into ChatGPT and then it produced a modern rendering
of him, which is pretty cool. But what I noticed was the kids,
especially from the 50s back, we're a lot thinner than the
kids are today. And when ChatGPT makes a modern
(11:48):
interpretation of him, it puts alittle more meat on the bone.
I guess he's a little more chunky than he should have been.
So because he was definitely thin the back in 1925, but today
he's not when ChatGPT gets done with him.
So that was that was kind of my goal.
(12:10):
And like I said, I've just kind of progressed through most of
that information that I have found has been from our
newspaper, a little bit from thetrack and field annual.
And then the last thing I did was to make some graphics
because what we found is in 1925, we had a track meet
(12:32):
against Cheney High School, who,because we've dropped from 4A to
3A, is in our league again. And we were able to get both
teams together and take a picture of not only the boys
team, but the girls team celebrating 50 years of track
and field. And then our athletic director
who was doing the announcing, I happened to notice that we had a
(12:54):
couple of alumni kids and asked them to join the pitcher.
And as it turned out, there was a whole bunch of kids that were
now adults that were officials that were that happened to be at
the track and they're able to all get in the picture.
So we had a a really cool picture of about 100 kids to
(13:14):
celebrate our our 100th year of track and field and our 50th
year of track and field for girls.
The last thing we did was produce AT Shirt and especially
for, I happen to be a retired graphic design and photography
teacher, so to make up AT Shirt was pretty easy for me.
(13:36):
But I've talked to a lot of coaches that are like, well, you
know, I'd like to do this, but you know, I don't have the the
the knowledge, the software, those kind of things to put
together something like that andto be real creative.
What you can do is once again, use ChatGPT plug in what you
would like it to look like. And you do have to be very
(13:58):
specific, but it was able to produce some graphics that we
could use for AT shirt. So if you don't really have the
experience, you know, or the resources to find, you know,
somebody that can put together the graphics for AT shirt,
that's another option for you. So that was our our kind of our
(14:20):
celebration to the end of our our season this year.
And it was really fun. Kids seem to have a great time
with it and as well as the coaches too and we happen to
have I think this year our team is pretty big.
We have over 100 boys in our track team.
We have a little bit smaller girls team.
I think we had 47 all together. So we full both full time and
(14:44):
part time. We have 11 coaches, but we boast
this year was our record amount,303 years of track coaching
experience, which I guess that just means we're all pretty old,
but it was it was a great time. Just about everybody really
enjoys all that, the history of track and field and especially
(15:07):
when you have a rich history like we do, it was it was pretty
fun this season. The other thing I've done to
promote track and field is in between our school and our
gymnasium, our main gym there islike a small hallway that
connects the two, and we've put our track and field record
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boards up and they're essentially A4 by 8.
If you can imagine the size of a4 by 8 sheet of plywood that's
hanging on the wall for both boys and girls, there's two.
And then each event that we havehas a picture of the athlete
usually competing, although there's a couple that are really
old that we just have a yearbookpicture of.
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It's got the pitcher of the athlete on the left hand side
with their performance. And then on the right hand side
we've got the top 10 performances of all time.
And then it's got below that, the class performance.
So like freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, if they happen
to have won A state championship, then their
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performances in gold, whether you're in the the number one
person or you're just in the after me in the top 10.
So that's kind of cool. I always notice we've got
basketball games that the crowd just gathers around to check it
out. Our athletes.
It's a big draw to increase our population of our sport.
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The kids are always checking it out.
And boy, by the end of the season, as kids have started to
jump on to the top ten list and and break records, they're
always after me to get that updated.
So I think that's a great draw for track and field because
everybody that's what they do. They check out the records, see
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if they can make it. And that's that's kind of the
goal. So that that's a a big draw for
us. On the opposite wall we have our
college athlete board, which is,yeah, it's similar to our track
and field records. It's the same roughly 4 by 8
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size board. And we started with one that we
expanded it to. And around 2015, 2016, we just
had an incredible run of athletes.
So we had both sides completely packed.
And what it is, is it's a picture of our athlete and it's
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got the sport that they're doingwhen they graduated and then
it's got those the university that they are attending and
participating in. And then we keep those up while
they're college athletes. So we've had 405060 athletes at
one time. There was a period of time when
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we completely filled up both boards and then we had just the
pictures of the kids, you know, taped onto the wall right next
to him. Now that our population has
dropped a bit because at one time we had 2600 students in our
school and now we now that we'veopened a new high school, we
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have about 1100. So we don't have as many kids
participating in college, But that's also a big draw for the
kids to be able to see how many are playing football, how many
are doing track, how many are doing basketball and where,
where are they bound off to. So I, I think that's been a very
big draw for our program and sports in general.
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So that's about it. If you would like to get a hold
of me, just contact Mike. And once again, I'd like to
thank Mike and Gil Athletics forgiving me the opportunity to
talk about our program and what's going on at Cinder Valley
High School and, and the historyof track and field and how to
promote it. But once again, if you have any
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questions, feel free to reach out to me.
Thank you. Hey gang, Mike Cunningham here.
Hey, I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Guild 1918
Project series. It's really my mission, my
passion to bring you massive amounts of value and I hope this
one hit the mark. The Guild 1918 Project is really
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dependent on you if for you to build your own episode, to hear
your voice, to have your voice heard you have something to say
and teach other coaches out there.
So please get a hold of me, e-mail, text message, Twitter,
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Hope you enjoy today and we'll see you tomorrow.
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