US Out of 4x100 Final

Someone should check the CSI ( Caribbean Scholastic Inv run by NSAF) over the last ten(10) years... NSAF takes 16 boys and 16 girls for an event in Puerto Rico..... In ten years, NSAF kids ( HS kids, no seniors ) who have never met before have run 35-40 4 x 100's ( A and B teams) and have never dropped the stick and have never been DQ'd.....these kids practice hand offs for 30-45 min the day before the event and no more! One of the two coaches was the departed Cedric Walker, a master relay technician......the other was me.....

It ain't rocket science...the boys consistently run 40 pt while the girls run 45pt...they have never met before and most were all anchor legs their entire HS careers and had never passed a baton.....trust in each other is the key.

AB/PL

luddite wrote:

800m Coach wrote:

I've noticed that sometimes sprinters can be too arrogant to practice properly. To get the timing right, you have to practice running into the zone at full speed.

You must mean Americans are too arrogant. All the other countries' sprinters seem to be just fine with baton passes.

No they are not - should see the international record of the British men’s 4 by 100 team.

Can’t understand it, I got hold of two footballers and a rugby player in the firm I worked for once and trained them well enough on the change-over’s so that we broke the sprint relay record at the annual Business Houses sports day.