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(00:00):
What's up everybody, it's day three.
We in the building, the Hayward Field building.
I'm sitting here currently staring at the I believe it's
the emerging elite pole vault. What I was just thinking how
lucky are these kids? They are on huge double front
gill pits, the amazing AGX pole vault standards.
This is really a phenomenal place to pole vault and how
(00:22):
lucky they are to be doing so. Lots of great Pacer 1, Pacer FX
VS and Pacer composites out there.
Just so exciting to be able to see things that our team build
by hand being used by these guysand gals.
It's really awesome. And then up on the scoreboard,
we've got the emergent elite 110hurdles going again over the
continuous C fours and that's enough of a commercial for
(00:43):
today. So we're here with day three,
bringing you micro interviews from coaches that are here in
the coaches hospitality. If the weather holds on me
today, we'll get a few more in than we did yesterday, but we're
just excited to bring you amazing people who choose to be
track and field coaches around the country right here in
Eugene, OR for day three of the Oregon National High School
Championship. All right, let's kick off day
(01:04):
three with our first interview. These guys travelled a long way
to get here and I want to find out why.
Coach, why don't you go and introduce yourself and tell us
where you're from? Good morning, good morning.
So I'm coach Warren your with Ridgeview High School, Columbia,
SC and it's it's just a pleasureto be here in the the cathedral.
They would feel here in Eugene. Is this your first time here?
(01:27):
So this is actually my second. So yeah, man, you know, my
partner and I, man, we, we came here the first year that they
held Nashville's here back then during the COVID.
Year. Yeah, you know.
So that was an experience of itsown.
So that would have been like itsfirst year.
Opening, opening. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I was into involved. We did this facility and so I
remember, you know, winning it right before COVID and then
(01:48):
working on it all through COVID and just, you know, it was a
tough project just because of the cathedral esque of it.
But then you had a COVID restrictions and it just, it
was, it was tough. But it was tough it.
Seems like it turned out OK. It turned out OK for you, coach.
You know, it actually turned outOK, you know, had a had a couple
kids get on the podium that year, you know, you know, after
some whirlwind of travel. So, you know, that's, that's
(02:09):
starting to become a theme for for myself traveling out here.
But you know, at the end of the day, man, it's always the best.
So great, great segue to my question there, coach.
You know, you're in Columbia, SC, the beautiful place.
That's actually where I did my very first USATF level 1 was at
South Carolina. So a fond memories of it because
I'm a huge coach and Ed guy. But you know, on this weekend or
(02:30):
near this weekend, we have two other track meets that are going
on for high school championshipsand we won't.
I don't even entertain the argument about why there are so
many high school national championships.
When people ask that question, Ithink it's kind of a silly
question. So I don't even entertain the
the argument. You have choice.
This is what my real what I'm getting at here.
Why do all the way? You mentioned cathedral, I get
(02:50):
that. But why come here to Hayward
Field? Yeah.
I think for the most part, this is the experience of allowing
our athletes, that, one, have probably never traveled to the
West Coast, you know what I'm saying, to be able to kind of
see what, you know, the country looks like on the other side of
town, right? And then two, you know, a lot of
these athletes of ours, we run well in the state, you know, we
(03:12):
run well within the borders of, of where we are.
But, you know, it's, it's different when you get to
compete against key people from,you know, Texas and California
and kind of see what it's like to run Nashville, you know, and
who knows whether or not they'regoing to continue their their
athletic ability in college and if they even get here for, you
(03:33):
know, the college nationals. So to be able to be able to
utilize this facility, run on itand kind of see the the
insurance and outs as a high schooler, you know you can, you
can't be that. That's a really good point
actually, when you were saying that I was thinking about good
friend of mine is Justin Gatlin and he's got a great podcast.
If you don't listen to Ready SetGo, you've got to listen to with
them and the bearded wonder theydo.
You're kind of becoming a littlebearded, Hey?
(03:54):
You know, I'm, I'm, I'm taking my music coach.
You know recipes coach. False.
But please go check that podcastout as well.
Justin talks a lot about, you know, the difference between
when you're in college, when yougo Pro is the travel and new
food, you know, going over to Japan and China and all those
kind of things. Yeah, well, this is kind of a
mini version. While, you know, the food is
going to be the same, you know, Air Force there, obviously, but
(04:16):
you know, the time zones. That's yes, you know, we
struggle as adults with time. Yeah.
You know, different time schedules because this is a
longer me because you have so many kids.
So this is a what a great experience for your kids if you
do go to college and you know somebody may one day go onto the
circuit. Yeah, yeah.
You know, one of our things withwith our program is, is trust in
the process, right. And I think one thing.
(04:38):
That says that from you guys most.
Definitely, you know, and I think for for us, Charles and I,
we want to give our kids the experience where if, if you want
to go collegiately, right, we'lltap you in.
We, we won't take you to the ceiling, but we'll kind of give
you kind of an insight of what it might look like to run at
that level, right? You know, understanding how to
take care of yourself, getting the rest, you know, so making
(05:00):
sure you're getting the nutrition in right, right,
understanding and and seeing howit is to warm up and compete
against, you know, some of thesegreat athletes, talk to them
because a lot of these kids, if you're going to be running in
college, you're going to be seeing them for the next three
to four years, right, right. So intermingle, you know.
That's cool, you know. Find some information man and.
Keep rolling That's cool. I love that man.
You know I I wasn't at a caliberin high school to you know, come
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to me like this, but to have theopportunity like maybe I would
have been to that. Maybe I had more motivation.
I don't know, right? That's pretty cool.
Well, last question before I pass it on to someone, you know
decently, I'm sure the last question is it's day three here
in Eugene, OR what's what you got going on today?
What are we running today? Yeah.
So today we do have a 4 by 8 running in the championship
division under the lights here, I think was 8:00, right?
(05:45):
Yeah, yeah. And then tomorrow we do have our
four by fours that'll be in the championship division.
I think we're in the faster section in that as well.
So you know, hopefully we can make some things shake.
You know, right now these haven't gone as according to
plan so. Just about that How many seniors
are in those relays? So I believe I have two seniors.
OK. All right.
Over those relays. So man, look here, keep your
(06:07):
fingers crossed. Well, or, you know, got to know
you over the last couple years alot.
You know, again, This is why when people want a dog on social
media and Twitter specifically and they say, oh, you know,
something about a cesspool and all those kind of things, I
think of guys like you. But I'm like, man, I don't know
without Twitter if I would know you guys or know you as well or
be able to communicate as much as we do and then coordinate
(06:29):
with things. I, I just, that's, that's the
positivity of social media. So I'm just so thankful for you
and what you do, what you have been doing for your school, but
also the whole statement. You're, you guys have expanded
beyond just the school and are doing an amazing job.
Really proud of you for what you're doing for track and
field, specifically Interstate. So thanks for more.
Appreciate you. Thank you We.
We talked to relays, so let's doa relay handoff.
(06:51):
I wish you guys could see is we have these ridiculous little
microphones. I mean, it's kind of hilarious
here, but that's what you got todo when you do this on the road.
And we're proud. This is our first time we've
done on the road interviews and such.
And so we're really excited to be able to see coaches and talk
to them right here at the Nike Outdoor National Championships.
And we'll be doing this for other meets and maybe we're
(07:12):
going to do something around track clinics and things like
that. But just want to continue to
expand the value that we bring through the podcast for you guys
and gals that choose to listen to us.
And we're just so humble that you do press play right here on
the Guild Connections podcast. OK, that was first leg.
Let's go to our second leg. Coach, introduce yourself.
And, you know, I think we know where you're from because we're
team. Yeah, hey, what's going on?
(07:32):
Everybody is Coach Charles Proctor, CP as as most of y'all
know, me. I'm the I'm the boys head track
coach every high school in Columbia, SC.
Hey, and real quick, I just thought about this because I
always like to, you know, you guys know me well enough like to
expand networks and expand my network.
Hand it back to Warren real quick.
Warren, why don't you tell us what your Twitter handle is for
those guys and gals that are on Twitter.
You don't know it by heart. I don't it's easy, it's my name.
(07:55):
So but I just want to make sure that as they're looking here on
their Twitter handles. If you are on Twitter and you
like to engage in positive conversations, challenging
conversations, but want to have a network of people around you
specifically on Twitter that arethere to help you and be helped.
These these are two guys you need to to be following.
So what's your handle? There.
(08:15):
Oh yeah, I just had to make sureI I did get it right, but it's
WT you're my last name, so WTEURE.
Right. Perfect.
I love it. Sweet and simple.
Man, there's so many tough ones.Yeah, that was taken man.
So mine is coach CP5, the number5 coach CP 5 so.
(08:35):
Whenever someone adds a number, I always have to ask what's the.
Significance, that's just my favorite number, man, it's
always been my favorite number growing up.
So when CP was taken, coach CP was taken.
So let me add the five on there.So that's what that's what we
got that one that. In my birth year, which is not a
smart thing to put on your thing.
(08:56):
That's actually what it is on Instagram 1920 in 1976.
But I was doing a lot of advertising with Twitter back in
the day and I actually had an account manager pre Musk and all
that stuff. And so one day I'm talking with
my account manager, you know, we're setting up the next
campaign and all that. And I was like, I got a crazy
question. I go, I looked, you know,
somebody has, you know, at Mike Cunningham, but they haven't
tweeted like in five years. Like it's, it's an active.
(09:18):
Is there ever like, do you guys kick people off or, you know, or
whatnot? Yeah, you're all good.
All good, brother, all good. We've got coaches everywhere.
I love it. And so I asked her.
I was like, you know, do you guys ever kick people off for
being an active and things like that?
And she goes, oh, let me look into it.
And I literally just like the next day he logged back in and I
(09:39):
was at Mike Gunning. That's how I'm talking about.
You know there's some dude that they're going to look up, right?
Right. Six years.
Now you want to start doing it, Man get out of here, man, get
out of here. I've never heard actually I had
another Mike coming here reach out and say pay you for it and I
was like bro unless you can offer like a million there ain't
nothing I give up for my own mate like.
(10:05):
Alright, well, let's bump all that social media stuff.
Charles, what are you doing here, man?
You're out here on the West Coast.
We've got a little insight from Warren here.
How are things going? And have you had Track Town
Pizza? That's always one question.
I have not. The entire staff did and the I
think all the kids did. Dude, where were you?
Why didn't you get any? Good question.
I honestly don't know what I can't even look.
(10:27):
But that was after probably one of the craziest travel days so
I'm working on things. I can't even tell you what I ate
that night, but I just see everybody coming back with
pizza. I'm like, OK, I didn't get the
damn home memo, all right? I got left out.
That's cool. So you're in Columbia.
So it's very similar to me, right?
I live in a college town, Champaign, IL.
So you know, you can either drive to a big airport or go
(10:48):
from a small airport to a big one.
I just, I do that. I do the small to a big and then
come out. How do you guys like?
That and so we, we've done all of the above.
So, but this this time around, we we flew out of Charlotte.
OK. And Charlotte's about an hour
and 2020 minutes away from the crib.
Yeah, so. Wasn't bad at all, but we ran
into, of course, you know, the storms was happening, so we ran
(11:09):
into delays and then Dallas, no.So we went Charlotte to JFK.
So Charlotte to New York. Yeah, first of all, you never go
through any new. York Airport Ever, La Guardia
and. JFK are top two worst.
Lots of great things. To not go through, and I am
sorry for all my New Yorkers before those airports are the
(11:31):
worst, but yeah, so, so actually.
Once we. Missed the first one our our
flight path path just got crazy.So we went from of course we
drove from Columbia to Charlotte.
We're supposed to have a six. AM flight.
Yep. And so we go from Charlotte to
JFK, from JFK to Seattle, from Seattle, from Seattle to
Portland, and then we drove fromPortland.
(11:54):
Oh yeah. So by the time.
Look. So when I tell you, I can't tell
you how I missed Tracktown Pizza, but I can tell you how I
missed Track because, like, I was out of it, man.
My time we got here, but I was out of it doing the travel.
Yeah. So that we had everybody, the
kids, the staff. So we were traveling with, what,
26 people? You know.
(12:15):
And so we were catching. We were like, we were catching,
still trying to get flights. I had a bad one going to Denver
to go down to Pueblo for the D2 this year, and it's the same
thing. You know, my flight from, I
think Dallas to Denver didn't take off till 1:30 in the
morning and all that kind of stuff.
But then I think, yeah, but it was just me.
When you're responsible for 20 something young people, I mean,
that's AI did that when I coach,you know, I remember from
(12:37):
Mississippi State, went to Penn Real.
I remember missing flights and we had to split the group up to
get on. I was like, yeah.
We had to split into. Four different groups.
Oh yeah. With so four different flight
paths. Yeah.
It got. It got wild, man.
It got wild. That's where when I talk about,
you know, what coaches do and you know, you guys know me well
enough, I don't say that and mean like, oh man, you're such a
(12:58):
good hurdles coach. Oh man, you're such a good
Sprint coach. What's important, you know you
have to go to the coach, right? But it's all the other stuff.
It's the culture stuff. It's the leading by example
stuff. It's the in the heat of the
moment trying to figure out, OK,this group needs to go here.
This group needs to go here. I need to make sure this group.
Right, right. That other stuff, which is 80%
of the the profession that I'm just like, oh man, thank God you
(13:22):
guys are doing this. I tell, I tell the young coaches
all the time. I said the actual coaching part
is the least amount of the work that you do within the coaching
job. I said if that's all you think
you're about to do, but you are not going to survive in this
business loan. We, the themes come up during
the podcast from interview to interview.
And one of the things that we'vebeen exploring more and more
(13:43):
lately is, has been that that the X's and O's.
That might be the easy part, yes.
And then all the other stuff, which is hard to like I'm trying
to find a word to describe all the other stuff.
So I just we call it the, it's called the 8020.
All the 80 percent, 20% is the X's and O's, right?
80% of it is discipline, leadership, recruiting, uniform.
I mean, you know, there's a million things we could.
List the 80% is the quickest wayyou get fired.
(14:05):
Yeah, you better have an 80%. But I'm a great coach.
Yeah, that's cool, man, that they're running fast.
But you know what? They're not eligible and you
never show up on the meets on time.
Right, right. Exactly.
Exactly. Well, let's talk about here in
Oregon. And of course, as we've been
talking, it's started to rain again here a little bit.
Hopefully it doesn't get as as bad.
(14:27):
We had a few downpours yesterday, I was saying on the
podcast yesterday, but that did not stop the athletes out there.
Oh no, not at all. Not at all.
What are you looking forward to You?
You mentioned actually one of the things I want to talk about.
You mentioned 4 by 8 tonight andI think it should have been
around 8:00 tonight. Yeah, yeah.
So, so Warren, so Warren's girlshave the four by 8:00 tonight.
So, so far today, we've had two in the emerging elite hurdles.
(14:51):
We have two in the emerging elite triple jump.
I have one in the Championship 400 and we have one in the
Emerging League jab tonight as well, so.
You brought a lot of kids out here.
Yeah, we we've been competing every day.
So we had the middle schoolers in the freshman role Thursday.
(15:12):
We had our Sprint meds role yesterday.
Of course, just just told you about the long day we have today
and tomorrow looks like I'll be pulling off 4 by 4 and off of
some injuries we've had. So, you know, won't be doing a 4
by 4. But yeah, we we were coming into
the 4 by 4 yet tomorrow we were in the fast heat.
So, you know, it's been a great season, though it's June. 21
When was your state? Meet Marks, I mean.
(15:34):
I'm sorry, May. May. 17th That is what is
amazing to me. When I see these kids out here
performing and PR ING or hittingnear PRS, it's like man, oh they
shot. They shot a kid.
Oh, that ain't no that's never good.
Now the. These kids have had their
ultimate means six weeks ago, correct?
They're still getting it done. That's a real testament to what
you guys are out here doing. So last question then.
(15:58):
I want to plug something for youguys because I love what you and
your wife are doing. OK.
The last question is not counting any events that your
kids are in, what event are you most looking forward to?
Or maybe it's already happened? Is there any event you're like
oh see I heard. About this kid from as a as a
Sprint guy myself, it's, it's the 100 I need.
I need Maurice and Tate and Braden to make it to the final
(16:21):
healthy and I need this rain to slow down just a little bit so,
so we can see the fireworks thatthe entire countries wants to
see those those kids have been phenomenal.
Shout out to them and their coaches and I I'm ready to see
those 3 lock horns and put together some fat.
I mean, at the cathedral, one ofthe fastest tracks in the world,
(16:42):
with three of the fastest U 20s in the world.
Oh man, you know it doesn't get any better than that, man.
That whole 6:00 to 8:00 tonight block is filled with it.
So you have the 100m square, the110 finals.
I think during that time, Jackson Cantwell, the number one
shot putter who just signed withUniversity of Miami for football
on track, he's throwing a shot put.
And the young lady from Utah whojust set the high school, I
(17:06):
might be getting this wrong, butsaid the high school 5K national
run, she's now like number on the on the mile.
I think she's number 8 or 9 or 10 on the total US list.
That's a high score. That's great.
And so they're doing a fast. Anyway, she's in 3000 so that 6
to 8 window is hot baby. Oh, yeah.
Look here. Yeah, we'll be.
Please don't be right here. Give me some hot weather.
(17:28):
I got I got a brand new poncho. They got me the wrong size.
I think they got me a medium setof a small.
It's hanging out of my I will behere in my poncho fucking it
through the rain. Baby, I'm here.
Right. Last thing here, I want you to
plug and tell us about this clinic that you do in December,
that you guys are doing that, you know, a huge coaching
(17:49):
education time. Coaches are putting together
their own clinics and inviting people, put people on stage and
put people in the seats to learnfrom those men and women.
I'm just a big fan and what I love about you guys is you're
not just focused on, okay, well here's a great hurdles coach to
talk about hurdles, here's a great distance.
You're talking about mental sideand health like you're doing
most. Tell us about that and maybe
(18:10):
where people can go to find moreinformation for the 2025
version. Most definitely yes.
So, so my wife and I have a foundation called the Coast
Proctor Foundation. And through that we coaching
education is one of the big things that that we focus on
through that through our foundation.
You can find all the informationthrough there for that
foundation at the Coach Proctor foundation.com.
All right. But so we have the Coach
(18:32):
Proctors Foundation clinic in December.
We, this was our second year doing it and, and yes, every
year we focus on every single event group.
So you're going to have your sprints, your.
Hurdles. Your distance, your throws.
We don't do race walk for all ofour AAU people out there.
So sorry, sorry to hurt your feelings on that, but we are we,
we bring in mental performance coaches.
(18:54):
We bring in dietary dietary coaches as well.
And we, we just, we have a sitting down.
We, we, we came together and we figured out we have an extensive
Rolodex of coaches that we can call on at a drop of a dime and
get help. And, you know, everybody and
everybody in this coaching profession doesn't have that
luxury. And So what we wanted to do was
(19:15):
unfold our Rolodex to anybody who was willing to listen and be
a part of it. And so we bring in coaches that
we have a relationship with, whether it's college or whether
it's college or high school. And they come down and they
present on their expertise and you know, they, they're, they're
giving out for free. But most people have to, I mean,
not for free. Of course you got to pay for the
(19:36):
clinic. But you know, most of the times
you got to pay online to get their courses and everything in
the same courses. They might have to pay online.
You come to the clinic and you're going to get that.
But not only that, now, once youleave, now you extend, you've
expanded your Rolodex because now you have the contact
information of all the percenters, but you also have
the contact information from allof the, all of the coaches that
(19:56):
were, that were in attendance. And one thing that I liked about
it. As far as South Carolina high
school coaches is is concerned, in the last two years, all of
the state champions between 2A3A4A or 5A have been involved
in this claim. Either they were a presenter or
they were in attendance and so you know.
(20:19):
Interesting how that works. Out Hey I'm.
I'm just saying. If if you like winning, you
might want to come here because you know it's it's definitely
been a good omen for for the coaches.
For all you coaches 35 and undera rolodex you could think.
Of. That as your contact list in
your phone that's you know, another Rolodex y'all go is that
a new thing that Gil's selling an attractive noto that's your
(20:41):
your contact list on your phone.So go to the Coach Proctor.
Gcoachproctorfoundation.com. Yeah, yeah.
Check it out. You do it in December.
Yes, we. We do it in December and we we
try, we try to make sure we're not conflicting with with the
National Convention because you Mike, I see you there.
I see you there last 2-3 years that me and Warren have lost.
So we try to make sure we don't conflict with there so that the
(21:03):
presenting collegiate coaches can do both as well.
You guys do a great job. Appreciate that Warren, thank
you so much for being here this day.
Good luck. We're going to be praying and
hope we're going to be doing thethe non rain dance, whatever the
opposite of the rain dance, right under the opposite of
that. But no matter what, I know you
guys have your kids prepared. They're going to be to the best
of their ability no matter what.Oh, most definitely.
Thank you, guys. Hey, my man.
Thank you, Mike. All right, let's keep it going
(21:25):
here with our next interview. Coach wants you to introduce
yourself and where you coming. From absolutely yeah.
My name is Marlon Hargrove with JL flight crew out of Houston,
TX. You know, I don't think we've
met anybody from Oregon. I just thought about that
because I'm like where you from?I was like, what, You're from
Oregon, but. No one to Morgan.
Right. Yeah, Yeah, a bunch of Texas.
Texas is definitely representingout here.
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
(21:45):
So it's really exciting to see some of the athletes that we've
seen at some of the meats that we go to and whatnot.
So it's really exciting to cheerthem on as well.
Yeah. So, you know, I'm always
fascinated because you have this.
Obviously, this is a great meet here, you know, Nike Town USA,
if you will, track Town USA hereat University of Oregon, Hayward
Field. But there's choices.
There's there's other meats and things that are going on as
(22:06):
well. Why from Houston come all the
way up here to Eugene. Oregon.
Well, it's a very good question.I've got a couple of athletes
that's going to be competing outhere.
It's my first time actually coming out to Eugene as well as
to Track Town USA. So it's really exciting to be
able to come out here and kind of be with them as they compete
later on today, yeah. And then maybe you had another
incentive as well. I think you got a a little one
(22:26):
that's a big Oregon Duck fan. Yeah, my, my, my, my.
Son Marlon Junior, he is an extremely huge Oregon Duck fan,
so I had to bring him out here with me so he can kind of see
the facility, see the campus andall that kind of great stuff.
So I've got to ask, though, you know, you're in Houston, you're
in Texas. How does 1 become an Oregon fan
all the way down there? Well.
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I'll tell you what, I'm going tolet him answer that.
So why don't you tell us why you're an Oregon fan?
I'm an Oregon fan because I justsee they just play good baseball
and football. So I just say, oh, I'm that I
might go over there. They might, they might recruit
me and stuff like that. But like why, why I like Oregon?
It's because I had a football team that was the Ducks and I
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and, and I specifically saw their highlights for I can get
better on the. Football at that, kind of.
Cool. Did you pay attention to them
this football year and and how good they did?
Yes, Sir. What was the There was a
receiver. They had Tess Johnson, I think
it was name Ortez. You remember him?
Yes, Sir. So I went to the number one
greatest university in the world, Troy University down in
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Alabama. And Tess actually started at
Troy. So I was a big organ and Tess
fan because he was a Trojan first.
So wow, I was watching him just when you were watching him, I
was watching him too, rooting him on.
Well, I'm glad you're here, man.There's a cool town, cool
college here and you have no doubts with their tour, you know
somewhere else you're going to go to school and do big things.
Whether it's baseball or something else, you're going to
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do a lot of great things. So coach, what do you got going
on? You brought some kids up here.
What events are we looking at? What's already been done and
what's to continue? With well we're looking at going
to be looking at triple jump, championship level, triple jump
later. Coach Mia Maxwell, one of the
Maxwell twins there as well as tomorrow, pretty good.
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They're really, really good. I love what they do.
I love their passion. As well.
As well as her sister Mia, Mariah will be doing long jump
on tomorrow as well as we'll have Sydney Sims from Elkins
High School we'll be competing in long jump tomorrow as well.
Well, the twins are going into their 12th year there as well as
Sydney also will be going into our 12th.
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Year. This year, yes, yes.
Really excited about that as well as got I got a few others
just coming, some freshmen, somesophomores coming.
So I really love getting the theathletes at that stage so we can
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really focus on the development and the technique and all that
kind of great stuff. So it's really good tell.
Me the name of the. Club again JL flight crew.
Yeah, Yeah. Well.
Well, you know, it's, it's a really funny story.
Before I just became jail flightcrew, I used to be with GH ready
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Houston Track Club, same 1 I believe you've talked to Danny
McRae with. And before our throwing coach
used to call my jumpers, the GH flight crew And then on my hand
on my it was Twitter, now X now it used to be jump life coach.
So I just put the JL and flight crew and put it together.
That's kind of how I came about.Yeah.
It's fascinating to me. Help people come up with their
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club names and you know someone see you know, they're like fast
feet and like it's kind of boring.
I like JLS and some of the other.
Ones that exactly, exactly. I mean the jump life comes from
not just a jumping coach, but I try to also think about life
things with athletes as well too.
Sometimes everything is not about just the athlete part,
it's mental as well too. So I want to see them.
Succeed in everything, So absolutely.
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Absolutely. Well, it's cool.
We'll be rooting for you. It's cool with their juniors, so
we'll see you here next year. Absolutely.
We can go ahead and book it. I appreciate.
It I don't even know if you noticed you did that.
It's like unconscious. You should get like Yep, see you
next year. Exactly.
Well, thanks for being here. Thanks for being with us here
today as well. You are officially our youngest
person we've ever had on the podcast.
That's right. You can put that in your Twitter
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and you better not have Twitter.All right, guys, thanks for
being here today. We'll get ready for our next
interview. All right, As we stay dry out
here in Eugene, OR, we've got our next interview.
Coach want you introduce yourself.
And my name is Kendrick Seeley and they head cross country
coach and track coach for. Homestead High.
School located in in Cupertino. California.
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Which is very close to the AppleCorporation company.
Yeah. You're telling me you're like a
mile when you started out saying, yeah, we're a mile.
It's like, well, if you start with a mile, it's automatically
you're super close to Apple's campus out there.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we can literally run from
school right to the campus if you want, and turn around and
come back. Yeah.
(27:04):
Are there any advantages or disadvantages to that?
Like I'm just thinking like traffic or sponsorship or
internship. I don't know.
Is there any advantages or disadvantages to being so close
to a company as big as Apple? I mean, the pluses is that we,
we get a lot of people coming from all walks of you know, of
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company countries and coming in.And the upside to that is that
they spend a lot of money. Cost of living in that region
could be very expensive, but what it does, it keeps the cost
of housing and certain things ata high level where in regards to
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you know, getting a good, I guess a good response for your
money becomes very critical does.
That you mentioned about the people coming into work, which I
didn't even think about. So do you have a pretty cultural
like I'm thinking like a lot of different kids at your school,
like from different? Countries, yeah.
(28:10):
So, yeah. So I don't know.
So, so in our school district wehave 5 different schools and
Homestead and all the fibre themHomestead is one of the most
diverse. So we have we have a straight
across the board. We got, we obviously got a high
population of Asians, then we got Indians and then we got
Caucasians. We got some Hispanics and then
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we got, you know, small, you know, small population of, you
know, of African Americans. That's.
Really cool. Well, what brings you up here to
Eugene OR why? You know, you've got choices.
And I know this one maybe is a little closer on the West Coast
here, but why here in Hayward Field?
Because of the appeal, the allure.
I mean, obviously, you know, we always hear the story about
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Hayward magic and definitely there's something to that.
And then couple of that too, we also, we have, I have, I bought
5 athletes here for, you know, to run in, you know, middle
school and high school. And it's, you know, so far it
has gone well. We all middle school kid so far
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he has set some high standards for our county, for California
and then also in the USA. He's he's inside the top ten As
for this for miles right now. So it's been a, you know, this
is our third run at it and we really like it.
Unfortunately, the weather is not cooperating.
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And, you know, if you're a distance runner, you know,
distance runners are pretty tough.
But, you know, I guess the comfort of coming to attract me
becomes a lot more difficult because it's raining all the
time. Yeah.
Yeah, these are what we call character building.
Yes, yeah, it's a test. Survive here.
You're going to survive. Every track.
Yes, there's a test. Yeah, definitely there's a test.
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Your medal and and you know makeyou appreciate whatever you know
from other places. You know, no complaining when
it's 70° now. No, you did a lot less than
that. And rainy so yeah, but.
Definitely put things in perspective then, but it comes
to track and field, you know? Yeah, well, you know the.
Backbone of our company and for me personally, as well as track
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coaches, man. So we're just so glad, so
honored that you would do what you do, that you chose to be a
track coach. We're just so grateful and so
thankful for what you do and so glad you brought kids up here to
Eugene. You're giving them a great
experience. So we're it's really cool to
kind of watching the sidelines. Yeah, I appreciate that too.
Yeah, it's, yeah. I mean, track, track and feel.
It's, you know, it's world renown and it's, you know, it's
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a, it's a great neighborhood to hang out in.
You know, everybody's friendly, you know, everybody wants, you
know, all the kids to perform ata high level.
Even the ones that have disappointment, you know,
there's always someone they're trying to uplift them.
So it's definitely a great atmosphere to be in and very
glad that, you know, we were able to come here again and for
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taking this great atmosphere andhopefully I'll see tomorrow the
weather the. Weather's.
Supposed to be a little much better.
So we thank God for that. But, you know, we'll keep coming
out here as long as we, you know, we can see fit, see fit on
doing that, yeah. A little bit.
Well, thanks for. Joining us here today, man, I
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really appreciate it. Good guy.
I appreciate joining you. And you know, this is this is
what we look forward to every year.
Yeah. Absolutely.
Thank you. Thanks, coach.
Bye. Bye.
All right, that brings day threeto a close.
The weather didn't cooperate, but the coaches and athletes
did, including a national recordand I'm hearing an age group
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like 16 year old world record inthe 800 meter dash for the boys.
Cooper Luton House just continues to set a record.
He set the high school national record last week with a 146.
This the day he set it, reset itwith a 145.
Interestingly, we had Cooper's dad George on the podcast.
You might want to go check out his episode because we talked
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about Cooper just a little bit in the background he has with
his family. So thanks for joining us here on
day three of the Nike Outdoor National Championships.
We'll be back back for day four,praying for better weather and
just awesome athletes and coaches.
Talk to you guys soon. Thanks for being here.
What's up everybody, it's day three.
We in the building, the Hayward Field building.
I'm sitting here currently staring at the I believe it's
the emerging elite pole vault. What I was just thinking how
lucky are these kids? They are on huge double front
gill pits, the amazing AGX pole vault standards.
This is really a phenomenal place to pole vault and how
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lucky they are to be doing so. Lots of great Pacer 1, Pacer FX
VS and Pacer composites out there.
Just so exciting to be able to see things that our team build
by hand being used by these guysand gals.
It's really awesome. And then up on the scoreboard,
we've got the emergent elite 110hurdles going again over the
continuous C fours and that's enough of a commercial for
(00:43):
today. So we're here with day three,
bringing you micro interviews from coaches that are here in
the coaches hospitality. If the weather holds on me
today, we'll get a few more in than we did yesterday, but we're
just excited to bring you amazing people who choose to be
track and field coaches around the country right here in
Eugene, OR for day three of the Oregon National High School
Championship. All right, let's kick off day
(01:04):
three with our first interview. These guys travelled a long way
to get here and I want to find out why.
Coach, why don't you go and introduce yourself and tell us
where you're from? Good morning, good morning.
So I'm coach Warren your with Ridgeview High School, Columbia,
SC and it's it's just a pleasureto be here in the the cathedral.
They would feel here in Eugene. Is this your first time here?
(01:27):
So this is actually my second. So yeah, man, you know, my
partner and I, man, we, we came here the first year that they
held Nashville's here back then during the COVID.
Year. Yeah, you know.
So that was an experience of itsown.
So that would have been like itsfirst year.
Opening, opening. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I was into involved. We did this facility and so I
remember, you know, winning it right before COVID and then
(01:48):
working on it all through COVID and just, you know, it was a
tough project just because of the cathedral esque of it.
But then you had a COVID restrictions and it just, it
was, it was tough. But it was tough it.
Seems like it turned out OK. It turned out OK for you, coach.
You know, it actually turned outOK, you know, had a had a couple
kids get on the podium that year, you know, you know, after
some whirlwind of travel. So, you know, that's, that's
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starting to become a theme for for myself traveling out here.
But you know, at the end of the day, man, it's always the best.
So great, great segue to my question there, coach.
You know, you're in Columbia, SC, the beautiful place.
That's actually where I did my very first USATF level 1 was at
South Carolina. So a fond memories of it because
I'm a huge coach and Ed guy. But you know, on this weekend or
(02:30):
near this weekend, we have two other track meets that are going
on for high school championshipsand we won't.
I don't even entertain the argument about why there are so
many high school national championships.
When people ask that question, Ithink it's kind of a silly
question. So I don't even entertain the
the argument. You have choice.
This is what my real what I'm getting at here.
Why do all the way? You mentioned cathedral, I get
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that. But why come here to Hayward
Field? Yeah.
I think for the most part, this is the experience of allowing
our athletes, that, one, have probably never traveled to the
West Coast, you know what I'm saying, to be able to kind of
see what, you know, the country looks like on the other side of
town, right? And then two, you know, a lot of
these athletes of ours, we run well in the state, you know, we
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run well within the borders of, of where we are.
But, you know, it's, it's different when you get to
compete against key people from,you know, Texas and California
and kind of see what it's like to run Nashville, you know, and
who knows whether or not they'regoing to continue their their
athletic ability in college and if they even get here for, you
(03:33):
know, the college nationals. So to be able to be able to
utilize this facility, run on itand kind of see the the
insurance and outs as a high schooler, you know you can, you
can't be that. That's a really good point
actually, when you were saying that I was thinking about good
friend of mine is Justin Gatlin and he's got a great podcast.
If you don't listen to Ready SetGo, you've got to listen to with
them and the bearded wonder theydo.
You're kind of becoming a littlebearded, Hey?
(03:54):
You know, I'm, I'm, I'm taking my music coach.
You know recipes coach. False.
But please go check that podcastout as well.
Justin talks a lot about, you know, the difference between
when you're in college, when yougo Pro is the travel and new
food, you know, going over to Japan and China and all those
kind of things. Yeah, well, this is kind of a
mini version. While, you know, the food is
going to be the same, you know, Air Force there, obviously, but
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you know, the time zones. That's yes, you know, we
struggle as adults with time. Yeah.
You know, different time schedules because this is a
longer me because you have so many kids.
So this is a what a great experience for your kids if you
do go to college and you know somebody may one day go onto the
circuit. Yeah, yeah.
You know, one of our things withwith our program is, is trust in
the process, right. And I think one thing.
(04:38):
That says that from you guys most.
Definitely, you know, and I think for for us, Charles and I,
we want to give our kids the experience where if, if you want
to go collegiately, right, we'lltap you in.
We, we won't take you to the ceiling, but we'll kind of give
you kind of an insight of what it might look like to run at
that level, right? You know, understanding how to
take care of yourself, getting the rest, you know, so making
(05:00):
sure you're getting the nutrition in right, right,
understanding and and seeing howit is to warm up and compete
against, you know, some of thesegreat athletes, talk to them
because a lot of these kids, if you're going to be running in
college, you're going to be seeing them for the next three
to four years, right, right. So intermingle, you know.
That's cool, you know. Find some information man and.
Keep rolling That's cool. I love that man.
You know I I wasn't at a caliberin high school to you know, come
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to me like this, but to have theopportunity like maybe I would
have been to that. Maybe I had more motivation.
I don't know, right? That's pretty cool.
Well, last question before I pass it on to someone, you know
decently, I'm sure the last question is it's day three here
in Eugene, OR what's what you got going on today?
What are we running today? Yeah.
So today we do have a 4 by 8 running in the championship
division under the lights here, I think was 8:00, right?
(05:45):
Yeah, yeah. And then tomorrow we do have our
four by fours that'll be in the championship division.
I think we're in the faster section in that as well.
So you know, hopefully we can make some things shake.
You know, right now these haven't gone as according to
plan so. Just about that How many seniors
are in those relays? So I believe I have two seniors.
OK. All right.
Over those relays. So man, look here, keep your
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fingers crossed. Well, or, you know, got to know
you over the last couple years alot.
You know, again, This is why when people want a dog on social
media and Twitter specifically and they say, oh, you know,
something about a cesspool and all those kind of things, I
think of guys like you. But I'm like, man, I don't know
without Twitter if I would know you guys or know you as well or
be able to communicate as much as we do and then coordinate
(06:29):
with things. I, I just, that's, that's the
positivity of social media. So I'm just so thankful for you
and what you do, what you have been doing for your school, but
also the whole statement. You're, you guys have expanded
beyond just the school and are doing an amazing job.
Really proud of you for what you're doing for track and
field, specifically Interstate. So thanks for more.
Appreciate you. Thank you We.
We talked to relays, so let's doa relay handoff.
(06:51):
I wish you guys could see is we have these ridiculous little
microphones. I mean, it's kind of hilarious
here, but that's what you got todo when you do this on the road.
And we're proud. This is our first time we've
done on the road interviews and such.
And so we're really excited to be able to see coaches and talk
to them right here at the Nike Outdoor National Championships.
And we'll be doing this for other meets and maybe we're
(07:12):
going to do something around track clinics and things like
that. But just want to continue to
expand the value that we bring through the podcast for you guys
and gals that choose to listen to us.
And we're just so humble that you do press play right here on
the Guild Connections podcast. OK, that was first leg.
Let's go to our second leg. Coach, introduce yourself.
And, you know, I think we know where you're from because we're
team. Yeah, hey, what's going on?
(07:32):
Everybody is Coach Charles Proctor, CP as as most of y'all
know, me. I'm the I'm the boys head track
coach every high school in Columbia, SC.
Hey, and real quick, I just thought about this because I
always like to, you know, you guys know me well enough like to
expand networks and expand my network.
Hand it back to Warren real quick.
Warren, why don't you tell us what your Twitter handle is for
those guys and gals that are on Twitter.
You don't know it by heart. I don't it's easy, it's my name.
(07:55):
So but I just want to make sure that as they're looking here on
their Twitter handles. If you are on Twitter and you
like to engage in positive conversations, challenging
conversations, but want to have a network of people around you
specifically on Twitter that arethere to help you and be helped.
These these are two guys you need to to be following.
So what's your handle? There.
(08:15):
Oh yeah, I just had to make sureI I did get it right, but it's
WT you're my last name, so WTEURE.
Right. Perfect.
I love it. Sweet and simple.
Man, there's so many tough ones.Yeah, that was taken man.
So mine is coach CP5, the number5 coach CP 5 so.
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Whenever someone adds a number, I always have to ask what's the.
Significance, that's just my favorite number, man, it's
always been my favorite number growing up.
So when CP was taken, coach CP was taken.
So let me add the five on there.So that's what that's what we
got that one that. In my birth year, which is not a
smart thing to put on your thing.
(08:56):
That's actually what it is on Instagram 1920 in 1976.
But I was doing a lot of advertising with Twitter back in
the day and I actually had an account manager pre Musk and all
that stuff. And so one day I'm talking with
my account manager, you know, we're setting up the next
campaign and all that. And I was like, I got a crazy
question. I go, I looked, you know,
somebody has, you know, at Mike Cunningham, but they haven't
tweeted like in five years. Like it's, it's an active.
(09:18):
Is there ever like, do you guys kick people off or, you know, or
whatnot? Yeah, you're all good.
All good, brother, all good. We've got coaches everywhere.
I love it. And so I asked her.
I was like, you know, do you guys ever kick people off for
being an active and things like that?
And she goes, oh, let me look into it.
And I literally just like the next day he logged back in and I
(09:39):
was at Mike Gunning. That's how I'm talking about.
You know there's some dude that they're going to look up, right?
Right. Six years.
Now you want to start doing it, Man get out of here, man, get
out of here. I've never heard actually I had
another Mike coming here reach out and say pay you for it and I
was like bro unless you can offer like a million there ain't
nothing I give up for my own mate like.
(10:05):
Alright, well, let's bump all that social media stuff.
Charles, what are you doing here, man?
You're out here on the West Coast.
We've got a little insight from Warren here.
How are things going? And have you had Track Town
Pizza? That's always one question.
I have not. The entire staff did and the I
think all the kids did. Dude, where were you?
Why didn't you get any? Good question.
I honestly don't know what I can't even look.
(10:27):
But that was after probably one of the craziest travel days so
I'm working on things. I can't even tell you what I ate
that night, but I just see everybody coming back with
pizza. I'm like, OK, I didn't get the
damn home memo, all right? I got left out.
That's cool. So you're in Columbia.
So it's very similar to me, right?
I live in a college town, Champaign, IL.
So you know, you can either drive to a big airport or go
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from a small airport to a big one.
I just, I do that. I do the small to a big and then
come out. How do you guys like?
That and so we, we've done all of the above.
So, but this this time around, we we flew out of Charlotte.
OK. And Charlotte's about an hour
and 2020 minutes away from the crib.
Yeah, so. Wasn't bad at all, but we ran
into, of course, you know, the storms was happening, so we ran
(11:09):
into delays and then Dallas, no.So we went Charlotte to JFK.
So Charlotte to New York. Yeah, first of all, you never go
through any new. York Airport Ever, La Guardia
and. JFK are top two worst.
Lots of great things. To not go through, and I am
sorry for all my New Yorkers before those airports are the
(11:31):
worst, but yeah, so, so actually.
Once we. Missed the first one our our
flight path path just got crazy.So we went from of course we
drove from Columbia to Charlotte.
We're supposed to have a six. AM flight.
Yep. And so we go from Charlotte to
JFK, from JFK to Seattle, from Seattle, from Seattle to
Portland, and then we drove fromPortland.
(11:54):
Oh yeah. So by the time.
Look. So when I tell you, I can't tell
you how I missed Tracktown Pizza, but I can tell you how I
missed Track because, like, I was out of it, man.
My time we got here, but I was out of it doing the travel.
Yeah. So that we had everybody, the
kids, the staff. So we were traveling with, what,
26 people? You know.
(12:15):
And so we were catching. We were like, we were catching,
still trying to get flights. I had a bad one going to Denver
to go down to Pueblo for the D2 this year, and it's the same
thing. You know, my flight from, I
think Dallas to Denver didn't take off till 1:30 in the
morning and all that kind of stuff.
But then I think, yeah, but it was just me.
When you're responsible for 20 something young people, I mean,
that's AI did that when I coach,you know, I remember from
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Mississippi State, went to Penn Real.
I remember missing flights and we had to split the group up to
get on. I was like, yeah.
We had to split into. Four different groups.
Oh yeah. With so four different flight
paths. Yeah.
It got. It got wild, man.
It got wild. That's where when I talk about,
you know, what coaches do and you know, you guys know me well
enough, I don't say that and mean like, oh man, you're such a
(12:58):
good hurdles coach. Oh man, you're such a good
Sprint coach. What's important, you know you
have to go to the coach, right? But it's all the other stuff.
It's the culture stuff. It's the leading by example
stuff. It's the in the heat of the
moment trying to figure out, OK,this group needs to go here.
This group needs to go here. I need to make sure this group.
Right, right. That other stuff, which is 80%
of the the profession that I'm just like, oh man, thank God you
(13:22):
guys are doing this. I tell, I tell the young coaches
all the time. I said the actual coaching part
is the least amount of the work that you do within the coaching
job. I said if that's all you think
you're about to do, but you are not going to survive in this
business loan. We, the themes come up during
the podcast from interview to interview.
And one of the things that we'vebeen exploring more and more
(13:43):
lately is, has been that that the X's and O's.
That might be the easy part, yes.
And then all the other stuff, which is hard to like I'm trying
to find a word to describe all the other stuff.
So I just we call it the, it's called the 8020.
All the 80 percent, 20% is the X's and O's, right?
80% of it is discipline, leadership, recruiting, uniform.
I mean, you know, there's a million things we could.
List the 80% is the quickest wayyou get fired.
(14:05):
Yeah, you better have an 80%. But I'm a great coach.
Yeah, that's cool, man, that they're running fast.
But you know what? They're not eligible and you
never show up on the meets on time.
Right, right. Exactly.
Exactly. Well, let's talk about here in
Oregon. And of course, as we've been
talking, it's started to rain again here a little bit.
Hopefully it doesn't get as as bad.
(14:27):
We had a few downpours yesterday, I was saying on the
podcast yesterday, but that did not stop the athletes out there.
Oh no, not at all. Not at all.
What are you looking forward to You?
You mentioned actually one of the things I want to talk about.
You mentioned 4 by 8 tonight andI think it should have been
around 8:00 tonight. Yeah, yeah.
So, so Warren, so Warren's girlshave the four by 8:00 tonight.
So, so far today, we've had two in the emerging elite hurdles.
(14:51):
We have two in the emerging elite triple jump.
I have one in the Championship 400 and we have one in the
Emerging League jab tonight as well, so.
You brought a lot of kids out here.
Yeah, we we've been competing every day.
So we had the middle schoolers in the freshman role Thursday.
(15:12):
We had our Sprint meds role yesterday.
Of course, just just told you about the long day we have today
and tomorrow looks like I'll be pulling off 4 by 4 and off of
some injuries we've had. So, you know, won't be doing a 4
by 4. But yeah, we we were coming into
the 4 by 4 yet tomorrow we were in the fast heat.
So, you know, it's been a great season, though it's June. 21
When was your state? Meet Marks, I mean.
(15:34):
I'm sorry, May. May. 17th That is what is
amazing to me. When I see these kids out here
performing and PR ING or hittingnear PRS, it's like man, oh they
shot. They shot a kid.
Oh, that ain't no that's never good.
Now the. These kids have had their
ultimate means six weeks ago, correct?
They're still getting it done. That's a real testament to what
you guys are out here doing. So last question then.
(15:58):
I want to plug something for youguys because I love what you and
your wife are doing. OK.
The last question is not counting any events that your
kids are in, what event are you most looking forward to?
Or maybe it's already happened? Is there any event you're like
oh see I heard. About this kid from as a as a
Sprint guy myself, it's, it's the 100 I need.
I need Maurice and Tate and Braden to make it to the final
(16:21):
healthy and I need this rain to slow down just a little bit so,
so we can see the fireworks thatthe entire countries wants to
see those those kids have been phenomenal.
Shout out to them and their coaches and I I'm ready to see
those 3 lock horns and put together some fat.
I mean, at the cathedral, one ofthe fastest tracks in the world,
(16:42):
with three of the fastest U 20s in the world.
Oh man, you know it doesn't get any better than that, man.
That whole 6:00 to 8:00 tonight block is filled with it.
So you have the 100m square, the110 finals.
I think during that time, Jackson Cantwell, the number one
shot putter who just signed withUniversity of Miami for football
on track, he's throwing a shot put.
And the young lady from Utah whojust set the high school, I
(17:06):
might be getting this wrong, butsaid the high school 5K national
run, she's now like number on the on the mile.
I think she's number 8 or 9 or 10 on the total US list.
That's a high score. That's great.
And so they're doing a fast. Anyway, she's in 3000 so that 6
to 8 window is hot baby. Oh, yeah.
Look here. Yeah, we'll be.
Please don't be right here. Give me some hot weather.
(17:28):
I got I got a brand new poncho. They got me the wrong size.
I think they got me a medium setof a small.
It's hanging out of my I will behere in my poncho fucking it
through the rain. Baby, I'm here.
Right. Last thing here, I want you to
plug and tell us about this clinic that you do in December,
that you guys are doing that, you know, a huge coaching
(17:49):
education time. Coaches are putting together
their own clinics and inviting people, put people on stage and
put people in the seats to learnfrom those men and women.
I'm just a big fan and what I love about you guys is you're
not just focused on, okay, well here's a great hurdles coach to
talk about hurdles, here's a great distance.
You're talking about mental sideand health like you're doing
most. Tell us about that and maybe
(18:10):
where people can go to find moreinformation for the 2025
version. Most definitely yes.
So, so my wife and I have a foundation called the Coast
Proctor Foundation. And through that we coaching
education is one of the big things that that we focus on
through that through our foundation.
You can find all the informationthrough there for that
foundation at the Coach Proctor foundation.com.
All right. But so we have the Coach
(18:32):
Proctors Foundation clinic in December.
We, this was our second year doing it and, and yes, every
year we focus on every single event group.
So you're going to have your sprints, your.
Hurdles. Your distance, your throws.
We don't do race walk for all ofour AAU people out there.
So sorry, sorry to hurt your feelings on that, but we are we,
we bring in mental performance coaches.
(18:54):
We bring in dietary dietary coaches as well.
And we, we just, we have a sitting down.
We, we, we came together and we figured out we have an extensive
Rolodex of coaches that we can call on at a drop of a dime and
get help. And, you know, everybody and
everybody in this coaching profession doesn't have that
luxury. And So what we wanted to do was
(19:15):
unfold our Rolodex to anybody who was willing to listen and be
a part of it. And so we bring in coaches that
we have a relationship with, whether it's college or whether
it's college or high school. And they come down and they
present on their expertise and you know, they, they're, they're
giving out for free. But most people have to, I mean,
not for free. Of course you got to pay for the
(19:36):
clinic. But you know, most of the times
you got to pay online to get their courses and everything in
the same courses. They might have to pay online.
You come to the clinic and you're going to get that.
But not only that, now, once youleave, now you extend, you've
expanded your Rolodex because now you have the contact
information of all the percenters, but you also have
the contact information from allof the, all of the coaches that
(19:56):
were, that were in attendance. And one thing that I liked about
it. As far as South Carolina high
school coaches is is concerned, in the last two years, all of
the state champions between 2A3A4A or 5A have been involved
in this claim. Either they were a presenter or
they were in attendance and so you know.
(20:19):
Interesting how that works. Out Hey I'm.
I'm just saying. If if you like winning, you
might want to come here because you know it's it's definitely
been a good omen for for the coaches.
For all you coaches 35 and undera rolodex you could think.
Of. That as your contact list in
your phone that's you know, another Rolodex y'all go is that
a new thing that Gil's selling an attractive noto that's your
(20:41):
your contact list on your phone.So go to the Coach Proctor.
Gcoachproctorfoundation.com. Yeah, yeah.
Check it out. You do it in December.
Yes, we. We do it in December and we we
try, we try to make sure we're not conflicting with with the
National Convention because you Mike, I see you there.
I see you there last 2-3 years that me and Warren have lost.
So we try to make sure we don't conflict with there so that the
(21:03):
presenting collegiate coaches can do both as well.
You guys do a great job. Appreciate that Warren, thank
you so much for being here this day.
Good luck. We're going to be praying and
hope we're going to be doing thethe non rain dance, whatever the
opposite of the rain dance, right under the opposite of
that. But no matter what, I know you
guys have your kids prepared. They're going to be to the best
of their ability no matter what.Oh, most definitely.
Thank you, guys. Hey, my man.
Thank you, Mike. All right, let's keep it going
(21:25):
here with our next interview. Coach wants you to introduce
yourself and where you coming. From absolutely yeah.
My name is Marlon Hargrove with JL flight crew out of Houston,
TX. You know, I don't think we've
met anybody from Oregon. I just thought about that
because I'm like where you from?I was like, what, You're from
Oregon, but. No one to Morgan.
Right. Yeah, Yeah, a bunch of Texas.
Texas is definitely representingout here.
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
(21:45):
So it's really exciting to see some of the athletes that we've
seen at some of the meats that we go to and whatnot.
So it's really exciting to cheerthem on as well.
Yeah. So, you know, I'm always
fascinated because you have this.
Obviously, this is a great meet here, you know, Nike Town USA,
if you will, track Town USA hereat University of Oregon, Hayward
Field. But there's choices.
There's there's other meats and things that are going on as
(22:06):
well. Why from Houston come all the
way up here to Eugene. Oregon.
Well, it's a very good question.I've got a couple of athletes
that's going to be competing outhere.
It's my first time actually coming out to Eugene as well as
to Track Town USA. So it's really exciting to be
able to come out here and kind of be with them as they compete
later on today, yeah. And then maybe you had another
incentive as well. I think you got a a little one
(22:26):
that's a big Oregon Duck fan. Yeah, my, my, my, my.
Son Marlon Junior, he is an extremely huge Oregon Duck fan,
so I had to bring him out here with me so he can kind of see
the facility, see the campus andall that kind of great stuff.
So I've got to ask, though, you know, you're in Houston, you're
in Texas. How does 1 become an Oregon fan
all the way down there? Well.
(22:47):
I'll tell you what, I'm going tolet him answer that.
So why don't you tell us why you're an Oregon fan?
I'm an Oregon fan because I justsee they just play good baseball
and football. So I just say, oh, I'm that I
might go over there. They might, they might recruit
me and stuff like that. But like why, why I like Oregon?
It's because I had a football team that was the Ducks and I
(23:08):
and, and I specifically saw their highlights for I can get
better on the. Football at that, kind of.
Cool. Did you pay attention to them
this football year and and how good they did?
Yes, Sir. What was the There was a
receiver. They had Tess Johnson, I think
it was name Ortez. You remember him?
Yes, Sir. So I went to the number one
greatest university in the world, Troy University down in
(23:30):
Alabama. And Tess actually started at
Troy. So I was a big organ and Tess
fan because he was a Trojan first.
So wow, I was watching him just when you were watching him, I
was watching him too, rooting him on.
Well, I'm glad you're here, man.There's a cool town, cool
college here and you have no doubts with their tour, you know
somewhere else you're going to go to school and do big things.
Whether it's baseball or something else, you're going to
(23:51):
do a lot of great things. So coach, what do you got going
on? You brought some kids up here.
What events are we looking at? What's already been done and
what's to continue? With well we're looking at going
to be looking at triple jump, championship level, triple jump
later. Coach Mia Maxwell, one of the
Maxwell twins there as well as tomorrow, pretty good.
(24:13):
They're really, really good. I love what they do.
I love their passion. As well.
As well as her sister Mia, Mariah will be doing long jump
on tomorrow as well as we'll have Sydney Sims from Elkins
High School we'll be competing in long jump tomorrow as well.
Well, the twins are going into their 12th year there as well as
Sydney also will be going into our 12th.
(24:34):
Year. This year, yes, yes.
Really excited about that as well as got I got a few others
just coming, some freshmen, somesophomores coming.
So I really love getting the theathletes at that stage so we can
(24:56):
really focus on the development and the technique and all that
kind of great stuff. So it's really good tell.
Me the name of the. Club again JL flight crew.
Yeah, Yeah. Well.
Well, you know, it's, it's a really funny story.
Before I just became jail flightcrew, I used to be with GH ready
(25:17):
Houston Track Club, same 1 I believe you've talked to Danny
McRae with. And before our throwing coach
used to call my jumpers, the GH flight crew And then on my hand
on my it was Twitter, now X now it used to be jump life coach.
So I just put the JL and flight crew and put it together.
That's kind of how I came about.Yeah.
It's fascinating to me. Help people come up with their
(25:38):
club names and you know someone see you know, they're like fast
feet and like it's kind of boring.
I like JLS and some of the other.
Ones that exactly, exactly. I mean the jump life comes from
not just a jumping coach, but I try to also think about life
things with athletes as well too.
Sometimes everything is not about just the athlete part,
it's mental as well too. So I want to see them.
Succeed in everything, So absolutely.
(26:01):
Absolutely. Well, it's cool.
We'll be rooting for you. It's cool with their juniors, so
we'll see you here next year. Absolutely.
We can go ahead and book it. I appreciate.
It I don't even know if you noticed you did that.
It's like unconscious. You should get like Yep, see you
next year. Exactly.
Well, thanks for being here. Thanks for being with us here
today as well. You are officially our youngest
person we've ever had on the podcast.
That's right. You can put that in your Twitter
(26:22):
and you better not have Twitter.All right, guys, thanks for
being here today. We'll get ready for our next
interview. All right, As we stay dry out
here in Eugene, OR, we've got our next interview.
Coach want you introduce yourself.
And my name is Kendrick Seeley and they head cross country
coach and track coach for. Homestead High.
School located in in Cupertino. California.
(26:44):
Which is very close to the AppleCorporation company.
Yeah. You're telling me you're like a
mile when you started out saying, yeah, we're a mile.
It's like, well, if you start with a mile, it's automatically
you're super close to Apple's campus out there.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we can literally run from
school right to the campus if you want, and turn around and
come back. Yeah.
(27:04):
Are there any advantages or disadvantages to that?
Like I'm just thinking like traffic or sponsorship or
internship. I don't know.
Is there any advantages or disadvantages to being so close
to a company as big as Apple? I mean, the pluses is that we,
we get a lot of people coming from all walks of you know, of
(27:25):
company countries and coming in.And the upside to that is that
they spend a lot of money. Cost of living in that region
could be very expensive, but what it does, it keeps the cost
of housing and certain things ata high level where in regards to
(27:50):
you know, getting a good, I guess a good response for your
money becomes very critical does.
That you mentioned about the people coming into work, which I
didn't even think about. So do you have a pretty cultural
like I'm thinking like a lot of different kids at your school,
like from different? Countries, yeah.
(28:10):
So, yeah. So I don't know.
So, so in our school district wehave 5 different schools and
Homestead and all the fibre themHomestead is one of the most
diverse. So we have we have a straight
across the board. We got, we obviously got a high
population of Asians, then we got Indians and then we got
Caucasians. We got some Hispanics and then
(28:33):
we got, you know, small, you know, small population of, you
know, of African Americans. That's.
Really cool. Well, what brings you up here to
Eugene OR why? You know, you've got choices.
And I know this one maybe is a little closer on the West Coast
here, but why here in Hayward Field?
Because of the appeal, the allure.
I mean, obviously, you know, we always hear the story about
(28:55):
Hayward magic and definitely there's something to that.
And then couple of that too, we also, we have, I have, I bought
5 athletes here for, you know, to run in, you know, middle
school and high school. And it's, you know, so far it
has gone well. We all middle school kid so far
(29:16):
he has set some high standards for our county, for California
and then also in the USA. He's he's inside the top ten As
for this for miles right now. So it's been a, you know, this
is our third run at it and we really like it.
Unfortunately, the weather is not cooperating.
(29:37):
And, you know, if you're a distance runner, you know,
distance runners are pretty tough.
But, you know, I guess the comfort of coming to attract me
becomes a lot more difficult because it's raining all the
time. Yeah.
Yeah, these are what we call character building.
Yes, yeah, it's a test. Survive here.
You're going to survive. Every track.
Yes, there's a test. Yeah, definitely there's a test.
(29:58):
Your medal and and you know makeyou appreciate whatever you know
from other places. You know, no complaining when
it's 70° now. No, you did a lot less than
that. And rainy so yeah, but.
Definitely put things in perspective then, but it comes
to track and field, you know? Yeah, well, you know the.
Backbone of our company and for me personally, as well as track
(30:21):
coaches, man. So we're just so glad, so
honored that you would do what you do, that you chose to be a
track coach. We're just so grateful and so
thankful for what you do and so glad you brought kids up here to
Eugene. You're giving them a great
experience. So we're it's really cool to
kind of watching the sidelines. Yeah, I appreciate that too.
Yeah, it's, yeah. I mean, track, track and feel.
It's, you know, it's world renown and it's, you know, it's
(30:43):
a, it's a great neighborhood to hang out in.
You know, everybody's friendly, you know, everybody wants, you
know, all the kids to perform ata high level.
Even the ones that have disappointment, you know,
there's always someone they're trying to uplift them.
So it's definitely a great atmosphere to be in and very
glad that, you know, we were able to come here again and for
(31:06):
taking this great atmosphere andhopefully I'll see tomorrow the
weather the. Weather's.
Supposed to be a little much better.
So we thank God for that. But, you know, we'll keep coming
out here as long as we, you know, we can see fit, see fit on
doing that, yeah. A little bit.
Well, thanks for. Joining us here today, man, I
(31:26):
really appreciate it. Good guy.
I appreciate joining you. And you know, this is this is
what we look forward to every year.
Yeah. Absolutely.
Thank you. Thanks, coach.
Bye. Bye.
All right, that brings day threeto a close.
The weather didn't cooperate, but the coaches and athletes
did, including a national recordand I'm hearing an age group
(31:47):
like 16 year old world record inthe 800 meter dash for the boys.
Cooper Luton House just continues to set a record.
He set the high school national record last week with a 146.
This the day he set it, reset itwith a 145.
Interestingly, we had Cooper's dad George on the podcast.
You might want to go check out his episode because we talked
(32:09):
about Cooper just a little bit in the background he has with
his family. So thanks for joining us here on
day three of the Nike Outdoor National Championships.
We'll be back back for day four,praying for better weather and
just awesome athletes and coaches.
Talk to you guys soon. Thanks for being here.
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