Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 2909774, member: 2141"] They do run out of gas a lot and it is inexcusable at at a NCAA D1 level. Even humidty can be addressed now in Storrs by jacking the temp up at Burton for a few evening practices during the week. In HS, I led pre-season conditioning for my senior year and was determined not to lose a game because we got tied. Beat by a better team, back luck, OK, conditioning. no. Made the entire team run up and down Sleeping Giant State Park once. On the way down, I told them anyone I bypassed on the way down, that player, regardless of Grade, would do it again. I caught over half the team. I ran with those guys back up and down and beat all but two on the way back down. I did not force a 3rd lap; but, emphasized that this is HS soccer, not Middle School, not Rec, not Town Travel and this is what is expected. They got the point. Calhoun used to make the men's team run wind-sprints up and down Cemetery Hill. I was on a club team at UConn that used to run the full 4.5 campus loop with Horsebarn Hill followed by stadium-sets up every bloody section of Memorial Stadium in pre-season (the swim team used to also do stadium sets and make them run-up half-way, drip and do 50 crunches on the bleachers and then continue). [/QUOTE]