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Learn By Doing Clinic | June 30 & July 1, 2019

ITCCCA May 29, 2019 Clinics, Discus, High Jump, Illinois HS Track & Field, Illinois Middle School XC/Track, ITCCCA News & Updates, Shot Put, Triple Jump Leave a Comment

CLINIC DETAILS Coaches clinic where you will get to see master coaches work with different levels and genders  hands on and go through film review …

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Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 7: My basic plan for sectional track meet week

ITCCCA May 27, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Illinois HS Track & Field, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

by Jim Aikens, (Burlington) Central High School Just goes to show you how much of a head coach I am not anymore. My last couple of …

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Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 6: Conference Week

ITCCCA May 20, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Illinois HS Track & Field, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

by Jim Aikens, (Burlington) Central High School MONDAY 5/7: Today was a full practice with everyone who is going to throw at the conference meet. This …

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Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 5: The home stretch of the season

ITCCCA May 13, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Illinois HS Track & Field, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

by Jim Aikens, (Burlington) Central High School MONDAY 4/30: Today we had a triangular meet at Saint Charles North with us and Elgin. The weather was …

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Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 4: Today, I had kind of a weird realization.

ITCCCA May 6, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Illinois HS Track & Field, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

by Jim Aikens, (Burlington) Central High School Monday 4/23 We had a make up meet at Woodstock today. After meets on Thursday and Saturday last week, …

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Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 3: Well surprise, surprise, we had another meet canceled today

ITCCCA April 29, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

by Jim Aikens, (Burlington) Central High School MONDAY 4/16: Well surprise, surprise, we had another meet canceled today. This one is supposed to be made up …

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Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 2: Finally, some outdoor meets!

ITCCCA April 22, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

by Jim Aikens, (Burlington) Central High School THROWS COACHES BLOG #11 Monday 4/9 We were supposed to have our first outdoor meet today but it was …

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Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 1: Wow do I love Spring Weather, Wish we had some

ITCCCA April 15, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Illinois HS Track & Field, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

by Jim Aikens, (Burlington) Central High School Monday 4/2: I like to treat Spring Break as a voluntary time for practice since a lot of kids …

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Teaching the Glide Shot Put Drill Sequence

ITCCCA April 8, 2018 Coaching Blogs, Discus, Opinion, Shot Put Leave a Comment

By Jim Aikens While coaching the throws for over 35 years, I have had the honor of coaching both successful rotational throwers and successful glide throwers. …

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