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The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast turns track and field coaching into long-form interviews, clinic talks, and short daily lessons. It moves from meet calendars and hurdle spacing to discipline, athlete identity, recruiting judgment, and the small standards that shape a program.
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The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast is a deep, coach-facing archive of track and field knowledge. It does not treat the sport as highlights and medals. It treats it as practice plans, standards, relationships, mistakes, meet calendars, and the daily work of moving athletes forward. The format shifts between long interviews and shorter Gill1918 Project lessons. That mix gives the feed two speeds: extended coaching journeys and compact clinic-style instruction. The conversations are usually informal. They still get precise. Recent episodes spend real time on annual planning, indoor and outdoor priorities, hurdle rhythm, short-stacked spacing, acceleration progressions, start positions, fatigue, and relay preparation. Coaches explain why a drill is placed in a season, not just what the drill is. They talk through how athletes respond when expectations become clear. Program culture is not treated as decoration. Building a Winning Program episodes connect standards, school context, coaching clinics, and the responsibility of knowing where athletes are being sent next. A Track Tribe episode frames coaching community through the memory of growing up with family close by and sharing what people had. Coach Mike and Cheryl Etheredge describe Golden Elite as more than a track club, with discipline, identity, and future leadership sitting beside performance. Vince Anderson’s acceleration sessions bring a different flavor: direct, technical, and deliberate, with every stance and cue tied to a later competitive need. The show can be repetitive because it preserves live teaching and conversation. That is part of its character. It lets coaches hear the pauses, pivots, and sideline reactions around the actual lesson. The best use of the show is not passive entertainment. It is a place for track coaches, assistants, youth leaders, and serious event nerds to collect ideas they can test at practice.
Made for: Built for track and field coaches, assistants, youth club leaders, and serious fans who want coaching detail rather than broad sports commentary. It especially fits listeners who are comfortable with event vocabulary, clinic pacing, and long conversations about program building.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing personal coaching journeys with granular event instruction, from hurdle spacing equations to early-season acceleration cues. It preserves the feel of coaches teaching other coaches, including the digressions that often reveal the lesson.
Unlock the world of track & field coaching with The Gill Connections Podcast! Host Mike Cunningham brings you inspiring stories, real conversations, and coaching insights from leaders at every level. Discover a new coach's interview every Monday. Plus, don’t miss the Ted Talks of track/field podcasts with our NEW Gill1918 Project episodes Tuesday-Sunday — short, powerful lessons from top coaches to help you grow on and off the track. Powered by Gill Athletics — Supporting Coaches Since 1918.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mike Cunningham captures how track and field coaches turn race models, program standards and lived experience into decisions athletes can use.
The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast brings the working language of coaching straight to the microphone. Mike Cunningham moves between conversational interviews and clinic-style presentations, giving coaches room to explain how careers develop and how training…
Hurdle spacing becomes arithmetic, and your practice notebook may need a fresh page.
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A steady discussion of standards, accountability, and the practical habits that support a track program.
This conversation treats standards and accountability as the backbone of a track program, with a steady focus on showing up on time, meeting expectations, and accepting that words and conduct have consequences.
A season-planning clinic that is strongest when the hurdle details turn exact.
The episode maps out a season around the state calendar, with the main target landing at the end of May rather than the indoor state meet in Indianapolis.
A sudden end to competition leads to a candid, grounded conversation about identity and coaching.
The episode follows Evan Gerish through the abrupt end of competing at Winthrop, where a car crash led to an MRI and the discovery of a heart issue. Back home in Michigan, he is left with too much time, not much direction, and an identity still tied to the sport.
A practical clinic on turning hurdle counts, leg choice, and race examples into a coachable race model.
Sammy Dabs makes the long hurdles feel less like a maze of split times and more like a problem of usable economy. The episode keeps returning to a simple coaching idea: the best race pattern is the one that gets an athlete over each barrier in the fewest steps while using the…
A grounded hurdles clinic where sprint speed, split tracking, and 17-step rhythm become a practical coaching plan.
Florida's 400 hurdles format gives this coaching clinic a clear way in, then opens into a broader look at state-meet structures and how coaches might shape them.
A grounded coaching-clinic case for serving athletes first while pursuing college roles.
The most useful idea here is simple and durable: an assistant coach's first obligation is to the athletes. Their growth can travel upward, strengthening the head coach's program and making the work visible to administration without turning the job into an exercise in managing up.
Vince Anderson turns block spacing and force application into a grounded acceleration lesson.
Acceleration opens with room to move, and Vince Anderson shapes the lesson around that simple but useful idea. He works from a scripted four-point stance toward a three-point stance, tightening the focus on foot and hand placement before widening the frame to a common problem:…
Real ball talk for working coaches.
Character work for high school coaches.
Leadership lessons from sport.
Coaching ideas beyond the standard playbook.
Strength coaching lessons from the weight room floor.
Track coach Vince Anderson details a progressive five-week acceleration training system, starting with four-point stances and advancing to block starts.
Mike Erb shares his coaching journey across multiple college programs in this Gill1918 Project episode.
The Gill 1918 Project stays with coaches as they talk through what a winning program asks of everybody.
The conversation starts with year planning.
This episode features an interview with Lorenz Billups, a high school track and field coach, discussing his background and approach to building a winning program.
Kyle Jones explains the origins and purpose of The Track Tribe, an online community for track and field coaches, drawing from his personal upbringing in Philadelphia to illustrate the value of shared resources and support.
Coaches Mike and Cheryl Etheredge discuss how their track club, Golden Elite, focuses on building discipline, identity, and future leaders beyond just athletic performance.
This episode features an introduction to the Gill Athletics Connections Podcast with host Mike Cunningham, focusing on track and field coaching and equipment promotions.
This episode features Vince Anderson discussing acceleration training techniques for track and field coaches, focusing on deliberate starting stances like the four-point and three-point positions to prepare athletes for relay events.
This episode features Vince Anderson discussing progressive acceleration training techniques for track and field coaches, drawing from his transition from architecture to coaching.
The host Mike Cunningham turns to guest Evan, whose time at Winthrop ended after a car crash led to an MRI and a heart issue.
Sammy Dabbs turns Gill 1918 Project #136 into a clinic on 400-hurdle race modeling, using Sydney and Rai Benjamin as elite examples.
Sammy Dabbs uses the Gill 1918 Project clinic stage to argue that 400 hurdles coaching starts with flat speed, not just hurdle rhythm, and he uses Melissa Gonzalez's 57.95-to-56.2 progression as the example.
A track and field coach shares his personal journey from Division III to Division I coaching, highlighting the differences between levels and the value of unpaid experience at Marquette University.
This episode features an interview with Mike Erb discussing tools and strategies for becoming a great assistant coach in track and field, aimed at helping coaches grow professionally.