The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast
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.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 75 minutes
- Episodes
- 720
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E22 'Behind the Scenes' September 3, 2021
It's Athletics LLC day again! Hope everyone has had a great week! This week address a topic that we elected to push to this week, mental health and what it is looking like in regards to athletics/o…
#124: Shelton Ervin-Summer Creek (TX) High School
Shelton was recently named the USTFCCCA National Boy's Track Coach of the Year presented by the US Marines. We are humbled to have him sit down and talk about this magical season and how it helped pr…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E20 'Good, Better, Best' August 28, 2021
Happy Athletics LLC day! World Juniors, Alliance Group, Coaching Carousel update, and Prefontaine results...are those words not enough to intrigue you to listen in?! Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde…
#123: Damion McLean-Appalachian State University
"It just means more" when an alum coaches at their alma mater. Today's guest nearly quit the App State track team as a sophomore and now serves as the Director of T&F and CC. How's that for a turnaro…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E20 'Moving on' August 20, 2021
Happy days to all! Join (Sir) Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde this week for some very relevant conversation about all things moving forward in the world of track and field. This week we start off with th…
#122: Althea Thomas-Vanderbilt University
Althea has been the head coach of Vanderbilt University for the past 100 days when this episode was recorded. Today she joins us to share her journey from the Birmingham, Ala area to Nashville includ…
MEGAPOD Volume #4: Jeff Hartwig edition
We combine episodes #102 and #107 into one long MEGAPOD to celebrate Jeff Hartwig's birthday. Today you'll hear from Jeff from how he got started in the pole vault event, how he navigated his HS, Ju…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E19 'Olympics Hangover' August 14, 2021
Who has that ibuprofen and electrolytes?! Join us to welcome back Sir Lucious back from overseas! He shares and reflects on the games giving us all perspective on what we thought happened from our …
#121: Paul Sargent-Sargent Distribution
Paul is the former head coach of Franklin (IN) College. Today he joins us to talk about his unique background in the sport of track and field and how that led him to eventually be the first full time…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E18 'STICK!' August 6, 2021
OLYMPICS week #2! Phew, are you tired too!? But it is more than just the performances that are making noise at Tokyo 2020ne! There is so much noise happening behind the scenes, at the track, on so…
#120: Justin Davis and Staff-Livingstone College
Sit back and enjoy hearing today's guest awesome story where he parlays two years as a volunteer college coach and two years as a middle school track coach into a head coaching position at Division 2…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E17 'Olympic Moments' July 30, 2021
It's officially the Olympics! Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde chat about the Olympics and more this week. Movement to the SEC, men's basketball, favorite moments so far, and lastly Simone Biles. L…
#119: Shawn Thielitz-Carrol University
Join us for an awesome conversation with the Shawn Thielitz the head track and cross country coach of Carrol University. We learn Shawn's journey through high school in the great state of Wisconsin a…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E16 'Olympic Predictions' July 23, 2021
The time has come! There isn't much to say besides, who you got? EVERYONE, Sir Lucious, Lamar, Clyde and Big League give their medal predictions for chosen events in the upcoming Olympics. Who's…
#118: Mark Koski-NFHS Chief Marketing Officer
Join us today as we sit down with CMO of the National Federation of High Schools Mark Koski. Mark tells us what the NFHS does, the goals and missions, and what's important for their team headquartere…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E15 'Good Vibes Only' July 16, 2021
As these kids say nowadays, "GOOD VIBES ONLY" y'all! As we are down to single digits away from the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, we want to lift up everyone and talk about some of the good …
#117: Britten Olinger-Montreat College
Happy to sit down with Coach Britten Olinger from Montreat College. Britten shares with us his journey from a small cross country only program as an athlete to coaching stops at Eastern Mennonite Uni…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E14 'New Player: Welcome to the Game' July 9, 2021
Here we are getting ready for the Games and there are some new players who have hit their "start" buttons. This week's recap could go on for days but we made sure that Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde …
#116: Patti Hupp-Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center
Patti sits down today on the podcast and gives us a verbal tour of the new 200m hydraulic track facility (with an outdoor 400m track facility attached!) in Louisville, Kentucky. She was named the Spo…
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E13 'When GOOD just isn't good ENOUGH' July 2, 2021
Welcome back after an exciting US Olympic Trials! The athletes of track and field didn't not come to play over the last two weeks. We will highlight a little more of what happened in week 2 of the …