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speed training
Designed to help any athlete improve their speed by offering a specific sprint conditioning training program would include working on speed endurance (lalactic/lactic), maximum speed, elastic strength / acceleration, and reactive speed. Our speed training program will begin on Sundays from 2-3 at Riverbend High School.
Speed Training
ONLY FOR CURRENT BLAZE ATHLETES
Junior Olympics
A non-recreational, competitive track & field program sanctioned by USA Track and Field (USATF) and the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). This program allows athletes to compete on a district, regional and national level.
Junior Olympic Program - 16 - week training program with a goal to compete in the national junior Olympics
(includes training, meet registrations, and administrative costs)
Uniforms
Meet Top/Bottom, warm up pants, warm up shirt and team bag
Facility Use
Currently, there are no costs for facility usage.
Program DOs & DON’Ts
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have your child ready to warm up at scheduled practice time
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ensure your child wears appropriate attire; shorts and shirt
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make sure they have plenty of water and hydrate all day before practice
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stress the importance of rest and proper nutrition at home
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reiterate the importance of being respectful to all coaches and parents
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not ask a question, no matter how simple or crazy you feel it is
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hesitate to raise your hand to help volunteer
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have your child do additional workouts without coordinating with the coaches
Training Schedule
Riverbend High School
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TBD
James Monroe
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TBD
Milestat reporting
Virginia Blaze reports to milestat / milesplit as a recruiting tool for our athletes. They provide live feeds of various track meets, meet results, and national rankings by age groups.
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MileSplit is the premier network for track & field and cross country. We believe that the heart of the sport is on a local, grassroots level. By facilitating the publishing and business process for our state webmasters, we are able to provide in depth state-by-state coverage of the sport. At the same time, these state portals feed content into a national database allowing us to provide an unprecedented depth of coverage on the national level as well.
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Designed around powerful proprietary database software that unites all of the important aspects of covering the sport--results, rankings, articles, videos, photos, statistics, etc--MileSplit US is the only online publisher in the sport with the tools to provide a high level of timely and comprehensive nationwide coverage.
