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 …
Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 6: Conference Week
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 …
Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 5: The home stretch of the season
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 …
Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 4: Today, I had kind of a weird realization.
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, …
Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 3: Well surprise, surprise, we had another meet canceled today
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 …
Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 2: Finally, some outdoor meets!
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 …
Aikens on Throws Outdoor Week 1: Wow do I love Spring Weather, Wish we had some
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 …
Raising the Bar of Opportunity
I write this on the tail end of a weekend where just about every outdoor track and field meet in Illinois was cancelled. Our team …
Teaching the Glide Shot Put Drill Sequence
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. …