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
- 719
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#105: US Air Force Academy Coaching Staff
Today we welcome the entire coaching staff of the US Air Force Academy. Led by 30+ year USAFA head coach Ralph Lindeman we're joined by vertical jumps coach Scott Steffan, distance coaches Ryan Cole …
BONUS: Athletics LLC S2 E1 'Sophomore year'-April 9, 2021
Season 2!!! Welcome to the next season of Athletics LLC, thanks for hanging out with us! Track is back and is it ever!? Performances from the weekend, when we usually would hear of fantastic relay…
#104: Maggie Vaults Over the Moon
Today we welcome author Grant Overstake and sports psychologist Dr. Melissa White to the podcast to talk about the book Maggie Jumps Over the Moon. We learn Grant's motivation to write a Young Adult …
MEGAPOD Volume #3: Athletics LLC edition
We're big fans of the hit YouTube show Athletics LLC. They produce funny, reverent, detailed conversations about the great sport of track and field and publish every Friday at 4pm cst. We are humbled…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP52 'ft Leroy Burrell & Carl Lewis'-April 2, 2021
Happy Anniversary Athletics LLC! We did it! We made it to a year of coming together, bringing forth knowledge/opinions, and having some good ol' fun! Thank you all for joining us along the way and…
#103: Craig Collins-Director of Track Operations at Gately Indoor Track Facility
Today we welcome the Director of T&F Operations for the brand new Gately Indoor Track and Field Center in Chicago, Illinois. We learn more about this exciting facility, as Craig walks us through ever…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP51 'What were they thinking!?!?!?!'-March 26, 2021
We got it together this week folks! Episode up in time and in an organized fashion...like we been doing this for 51 weeks or something ;) Well, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? This week Sir Lucious, Lam…
#102: Jeff Hartwig Part 1-Olympic Pole Vaulter
Today we bring you part one of a two part series with pole vault Olympian Jeff Hartwig. In this episode we learn his journey to becoming a 14' vaulter in high school and a nearly 18' vaulter in colle…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP50-March 19, 2021
So due to technical difficulties you're getting just the raw version of our recording...no hype beats :( I know, but we will live! Starting off the night hot, we talk about what the highlights wer…
#101: Virginia Wesleyan University Coaching Staff
Honored to have the coaching staff from Virginia Wesleyan sit down with us. We welcome HC Jesse Weiner, sprints/hurdles coach Cameia Alexander, and jumps coach Dr. Richmond Letterio to the podcast. W…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP49 'NCAA predictions'-March 12, 2021
As promised, Big League turns over the reigns to Sir Lucious and we give our NCAA Indoor Championship predictions. Sir Lucious gave the group certain events that we are going to give predictions to …
#100: Chris Huffins-Mr. Decathlon
After being tricked into becoming a decathlete at the University of California-Berkeley, Chris Huffins went on to earn two Olympic Team spots and culminated his athletic career with a bronze medal in…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP48 'Actions'-March 5, 2021
We are HERE! Checked in for another fun episode of Athletics LLC with Sir Lucious, Lamar, and Clyde to stir the pot about some current topics sometimes related to the world of track and field and so…
#99: Norbert Elliott-Purdue University
"Don't try and reinvent the wheel," Norbert Elliott head coach Purdue University
Today we highlight the amazing journey in the coaching profession of Norbert Elliott. Norbert takes us from the playgr…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP47 'Putting it together'-February 26, 2021
When you want things to get better, when you want progress you have to get your material together to achieve the great result. This week in "track is back" we see this happening with the various res…
#98: Andreas Trajkovski-Jumpers World
Today we talk with highly accomplished long jumper Andreas Trajkovski from Denmark. We learn of his journey to Iowa Western CC and the University of Arkansas along with the coaches who mentored him a…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP46 'What's all the HYPE!?'-February 19, 2021
What's all the hype about right now!? Are there results/performances that are being over-hyped or not hyped enough??? TRACK IS BACK!!! We've got to continue to celebrate each week's noteable per…
#97: Stevie Keller/Justin St. Clair-North Dakota State University
"I'm into listening more than talking," said one of our guests today on a talking podcast!
Thank you to Justin St. Clair and Stevie Keller of North Dakota State for joining us to discuss their coach…
BONUS: Athletics LLC EP45 'ft Aretha Thurmond'-February 12, 2021
Well well well...welcome to episode 45! We got the HBIC with us, Ms Aretha Thurmond! Four time Olympian, mom, wife, the lead of international teams...she does it all. We asked her for her insight a…
#96: Yvonne Wade/Larry Wade-UNLV
The Dynamic Duo of UNLV - Yvonne Wade & Larry Wade
In a special episode of the Connections Podcast, host Mike Cunningham is joined by the dynamic duo of UNLV track and field: Head Coach Yvonne Wade …