By Darrell Kelly Jr.
The San Bernardino Valley community college’s track and field are preparing for the 2025 season. The team is led by Head Coach Lawler and Sprinter Coach Goss. Head coach of the track and field team Lawler hired Sprinter Coach Goss in the summer of 2023 for rebuilding the program for the track and field team at San Bernardino valley college.
Head Coach Lawler hired Sprinter Coach Goss to coach at San Bernardino Valley College because of his success at Mount Sac college. Coach Goss led Mount Sac track and field team to the finals and all the way to state championship. Sprinter coach Goss was the coach that Lawler needed to expand and rebuild a new track and field team at San Bernardino Valley college.
At practice in the fall of 2024, Springer Coach Goss is coaching the Track and field team about “maximum intensity.” Sprinter Coach Goss wants the team to practice running at a maximum velocity in short sprints in practice to make themselves faster in an actual race and to improve their speed. Another important thing that Sprinter Coach Goss explains to the runners is that all runners have a plan to run each of their races in order to execute them at maximum output. Sprinter Coach Goss also wants the runners to be coachable in order to become a better athlete and to improve their skill sets for the 2025 track season.
In track and field practice on September 17, 2024, Sprinter Coach Goss wanted his runners to practice their acceleration skills to improve their drive phase when the runners run off from their blocks in a race. He mentions that the start of the race is extremely important and can impact your times for the rest of the race. Sprinter Coach Goss told the runners that teamwork is important because teamwork can help every runner to be able to perform at their best and in order to not just advanced to the finals, state but to improve and push each other in practices.
One of the biggest things that sprinter Coach Goss said to the runners was to have “Swag”. What he means by this is how the runners present and carry themselves as not just a sprinter but an athlete as a whole. He also mentions that having “swag” is not just the physical but the mental part, mostly to be able to have confidence in one’s self to compete against other athletes or runners that are above or at the same level as the runner. “Swag” in Sprinter Coach Goss case was having the confidence and having what is now called “Aura” as a sprinter on the track.
The most important goal for the Coaches Lawler and Goss is to send the runners to a higher level not just in track but also in life. The main goal of the new foundation of the track and field team is to prepare the runners for the big leagues and to walk in the “big boy” territory of life.
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