Georgia High School Track Athlete Banned From State!

No idea of background and context. But if the 4x4 in that meet was so important, why would you run an athlete in the 4 prior to it? 1,2, 4x4 would be much easier. I have seen HS sprinters hit the wall way worse than this coming back after a hard effort in the 400. Totally possible she just had nothing left.

Beyond that, behavior and communication from coaching staff, if as described, is inexcusable. You don’t teach lessons by kicking kids off the team for confusing reasons. You have a conversation with the kid. And you for sure discuss it directly with the kid if you are kicking them off the team. Sending an email to mom and then being jerks to the kid is unprofessional.

I’ve coached kids with attitude problems. I think every coach has. It’s not clear to me that’s the issue here. But if it is there is a progression of steps to take. Using race performance as a metric doesn’t fit a with any worthwhile approach. It sounds like the coaches need better training in how to teach and communicate.

My daughter, a junior in high school is asked to run the 100, 100H, 300L, and 200 in meets while she has a bad case of shin splints. They have her sprinting daily and banging her up. She shouldn't run 4 events, even if all sprints, if banged up.

I ran at the highest levels. As a mature athlete, one time I had to run both a 400m final and a 400m hurdle final on the same day. If I won the 400m hurdle final I would advance to the Americas finals with a trip on the line for the World Cup in Track and Field.

The 400m came first. I had signed up for both and maybe using the 400m final as a backdoor for the 4x400m relay. Unfortunately, the rest was not sufficient to do my best in both. Stuck between my own made rock and a hard place, I ran the 400m. I ran 53 seconds and it hurt like hell near the end. I was more tired mentally near the end of that race than any of my previous 400's for 5 years. I had been on the 4x400m national relay team. Just so you know 458777, when your well trained to run fast, you can suck going slower. I won the 400mH and went to Guadalajara. Beaten into 4th place and no trip. But I did get Montezuma's revenge the next day.

I have been running 65 years, Shin Splints was the main injury back in the day. Caused by an athletes with high ethic for training hard or by a coach who gives a high achieving athletes workouts that the athlete cannot adapt fast enough to the stress load. It is probably the area of the body that gets the least blood supply, which makes healing difficult. Couple that with the fact that the athlete does not know they have had shin splints for about 3 weeks before they interfere with their training. I used to be such a coach until I developed a program for healing them so they don't come back.