Pretty crazy! Ford Elizondo was a college tennis player and is now taking his talents to the tartan. He ran 1:54 in the 800 in the same race Aaron Sahlman ran 1:48. I know plenty of soccer players who switch to track but how many come from tennis?
Pretty crazy! Ford Elizondo was a college tennis player and is now taking his talents to the tartan. He ran 1:54 in the 800 in the same race Aaron Sahlman ran 1:48. I know plenty of soccer players who switch to track but how many come from tennis?
Im not sure how many, but the ones you hear about will be talented ones
Back in college, we were all asked to clerk and ref the intramural track meet. Friend of mine shows up the meet in basketball shoes, and promptly wins the 100, 200, 400, HJ and LJ. Never ran track. Tennis and soccer in high school.
Coached by the one an' only William Everett Smulders AKA WESfly Athletics former CEO. Unclear if Michael Coccia's involved. Hopeful brodie can tap inna that dragon energy and become a true Alpha. Gonna have to link up with Vanhoy at SLO cuz Cade Flatt's shown Oxford's fresh outta that secret sauce. Kid's got talent tho.
Hey Roger, I ran about a month and a half my senior year for the 4x4 and ended up getting thrown into the 800 went 1:59 my first open race. Don’t sleep on tennis athletes hahaha
Looks like he played baseball and basketball in high school and didn’t run track until senior year while playing tennis. Looks like a multi sport athlete.
I raced against a college tennis player in a 5k at BC a few years ago. He loved running, knew about the training philosophies and was really into the sport. It was a road 5k and he finished right behind me in like 15:24. He ended up dropping tennis and switching to track. Walked on the track team and dropped tennis and ended up running 1:53 in the 800. Was amazing to see.
I played tennis all throughout high school and could have played at almost any D3 school (actually played an exhibition match for Haverford on a recruiting trip and beat the Gettysburg guy 6-0, 6-1).
I started running around June after my freshman year in college (I ended up going to a D1 school where I couldn’t play tennis). I basically trained like a college runner, by myself (and local club workouts). By the next spring I ran 15:26 5k on the track. A couple years later I broke 15, with 8:37 3k and 9:19 steeple.
I played tennis all throughout high school and could have played at almost any D3 school (actually played an exhibition match for Haverford on a recruiting trip and beat the Gettysburg guy 6-0, 6-1).
I started running around June after my freshman year in college (I ended up going to a D1 school where I couldn’t play tennis). I basically trained like a college runner, by myself (and local club workouts). By the next spring I ran 15:26 5k on the track. A couple years later I broke 15, with 8:37 3k and 9:19 steeple.
i played d3 soccer (and track). after hitting around with a HS varsity tennis buddy for a couple years, i tried some tournament tennis one summer during college and found it fairly tiring. so good tennis players are probably fairly fit.
that being said, i had no coaching and my game was basically gun for aces, then just try and keep the ball in play from the baseline. so i wasn't ending points early, i was driving people nuts with long rallies.
I played tennis all throughout high school and could have played at almost any D3 school (actually played an exhibition match for Haverford on a recruiting trip and beat the Gettysburg guy 6-0, 6-1).
I started running around June after my freshman year in college (I ended up going to a D1 school where I couldn’t play tennis). I basically trained like a college runner, by myself (and local club workouts). By the next spring I ran 15:26 5k on the track. A couple years later I broke 15, with 8:37 3k and 9:19 steeple.
i played d3 soccer (and track). after hitting around with a HS varsity tennis buddy for a couple years, i tried some tournament tennis one summer during college and found it fairly tiring. so good tennis players are probably fairly fit.
that being said, i had no coaching and my game was basically gun for aces, then just try and keep the ball in play from the baseline. so i wasn't ending points early, i was driving people nuts with long rallies.
That really resonates with me. A few of my friends and I self taught in fall of 9th grade and joined the team. I was around #7-8 so mostly played exhibition matches. And I didn’t know how to hit a real topspin forehand so I played, as my coach described, “moonball.” I vividly remember playing an exhibition match (away) under the lights when everyone else was ready to leave on the bus. But there I was just lobbing shot after shot. That summer I finally learned how to hit a forehand, and over the next couple years it became a real weapon. By senior year I could serve close to 115. I played a ton of tennis in the summer with my best friend on the team, often 3-4 hours of hard playing per day. At the end of summer before senior year, I asked my dad to time me around a track and I ran 5:17 for 1600.