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Home News and Blogs Opinion

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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Opinion”

Skinning The Cat

Jason Retz September 22, 2017Coaching Blogs, Illinois HS Cross Country, Opinion Leave a Comment

By Jason Retz St. Joseph-Ogden Cross Country & Track @SJORunning Every year in November the IHSA hands out six individual and team cross country championships. …

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The Island

Jason Retz September 15, 2017Coaching Blogs, Illinois HS Cross Country, Opinion Leave a Comment

By Jason Retz St. Joseph-Ogden Cross Country & Track @SJORunning Being a distance runner has it positives and negatives.  On the positive side, you enjoy …

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Delayed Gratification

John Prieboy September 10, 2017Coaching Blogs, Distance, Illinois HS Cross Country, Opinion Leave a Comment

John Prieboy Plainfield Central High School Girls Cross Country jpriebo1@psd202.org Twitter- @PCHSGirlsXC The 2017 season has been a learning experience for me. Over the past …

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The Rail

Jason Retz September 8, 2017Coaching Blogs, Distance, Illinois HS Cross Country, Opinion, Philosophy/Ideas 1 Comment

By Jason Retz St. Joseph-Ogden Cross Country & Track @SJORunning The last several years we have made a big push to get on a soft …

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Welcome to the family

Jason Retz September 2, 2017Coaching Blogs, Distance, Illinois HS Cross Country, Opinion 5 Comments

By By Jason Retz St. Joseph-Ogden Cross Country & Track @SJORunning Every team does their “thing”, but most successful programs have one thing in common. …

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9 Track and Field issues to be addressed in Illinois

Kevin Christian August 5, 2017Coaching Blogs, Illinois HS Track & Field, Opinion 12 Comments

By Mike Garcia Lanphier High School Springfield, Illinois I have coached for a long time and have never written anything for the website. If you …

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Share news, links and more with ITCCCA

Kevin Christian July 7, 2017Coaching Blogs, ITCCCA News & Updates, Opinion

Want to become more involved? Share news, links and more with ITCCCA! Want to write a blog? Get started here. ITCCCA’S OBJECTIVES ARE AS FOLLOWS: …

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Ode to Jim Aikens

Daniel McQuaid June 3, 2017Coaching Blogs, Discus, Opinion, Shot Put 4 Comments

  Okay, okay, I get it. He’s not dead. He’s not even fully retired. But this last state meet was Jim’s final appearance as head …

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Low Hanging Fruit

Rob Assise March 31, 2017Coaching Blogs, Illinois HS Cross Country, Illinois HS Track & Field, New Submission, Opinion 6 Comments

By Rob Assise, Homewood-Flossmoor High School  One of the reasons why late summer and early fall is my favorite time of year is apples are ready …

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ITCCCA’s objectives are as follows:

• To promote interest, enthusiasm, and improvement in track and cross-country in Illinois.

• To provide education and opportunity for involvement for every coach in our association by methodology. We also strive to bring in outstanding coaches and athletes from the college ranks.

• To promote, publicize, and recognize achievement of our athletes and coaches.

• To request the feelings of schools, coaches, and athletes of Illinois on rule changes, administration of track and cross-country meets to the IHSA. We strive to provide a voice representing the needs and interests of Illinois in any decisions regarding track and cross-country in the state of Illinois.

• To work with and generally support the Illinois High School Association.
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