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(05-04-2020 05:58 PM)odu83alumni Wrote:  

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(05-04-2020 06:34 AM)odu83alumni Wrote:  

(05-03-2020 11:15 PM)LetsGoODU Wrote:  We’re really going to let him run track on a club team?

If you are a track and field guy you love a track meet and yes im sure he would be happy with the club team. It definitely helps with your conditioning.

If ODU had a stellar track program, I would agree, but this is club track. This isn’t going to prepare him (or help) with his football conditioning.

One thing about track and field it strengthens an athlete mentally cause it is straight up you against the field and coaches are pretty much left out of it.

Hey I'm talking about High School here so take this for what it's worth!

I ran track at Lake Taylor way back in the day. We had a pretty good wrestling team and the heavyweight, I "think" his name was Bill Wicks(something like that), he was a state champ. The wrestlers would come to our track practice and do track practice as long as we did THEN they would go to wrestling practice. I never could figure out how the hell they did that since we had guys throwing up, layed out,in the whirlpool and pretty dang worn out after track practice. I have never forgotten that. So whoever the wrestling coach was sure saw value in track. This was way back about 1970 I guess.For anyone who did track around here, I was the only 9th grader on the outdoor team (Lake Taylor jr High)and was on in 10th grade too before moving on to private school my last two years. In 10th grade I was on Cross Country,indoor and outdoor teams.We were pretty good but back then I seem to remember Booker T, Princess Anne and Kellum were great. I was a 2 mile and one mile runner.