This week I was able to speak to Jim Ciccarello, Girls Track and Field Coach at La Cueva High School. He has 53 years of experience with APS and coaching, starting out with age groupers with the Duke City Dashers and the Albuquerque Track Club. He is a member of the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame and has multiple coach of the year honors, but listening to him, it's not about that. It's about his love of the sport.
We talk about his start in the sport and the history of the sport in Albuquerque. He talks about getting started with coaching track and field, even though his original plan was to coach high school basketball.
He talked about motivating runners, picking staff, and staying in contact with his runners during this last year. We talk about what rebuilding might look like over the next year as well.
It was a fun conversation with one of the legends of the sport and we only scratched the surface. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Enjoy the warm weather, stay hydrated, and keep running, New Mexico.
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Episode 116 - Bruce Gomez; Head Coach Taos Cross Country, Runner, Teacher
Episode 115 - Lydia Jennings; Environmental Scientist, Mentor, Runner, and So Much More
Episode 114 - Mikayla Sehlmeyer; Volcano Vista and Colombia College Grad, Cibola Cross Country Coach
Episode 113 - Chuck Aragon; Los Lunas, Notre Dame, First New Mexican under a 4 minute mile
Episode 112 - Chase Ealey; 3x National Champion, World Indoor Silver Medalist
Episode 111- Allen Sumrall; Railroad Athletics, PhD Cadidate
Episode 110 - Gabrielle Arsiaga; Head Coach University of the Southwest
Episode 109 - Matt Thompson; Watermelon 100 Project for the Friends of the Sandia Mountains
Episode 108 - Jacque Pinon; Vanderbilt University Track & Field Athlete
Episode 107 - Dawn Meyer & Rebekah Weems Talking the Gunther Run
Episode 106 - Margaret Gordon; Recent Arrowhead 135 finisher, Mt. Taylor 50k Race Director
Episode 105 - Mbarak Hussein; Marathoner, USATF Road Record Holder, Coach, and Friend
Episode 104 - Solo Episode; 2 Years, Houston Recap, and the Future
Episode 103 - Kenny Henry; Head Cross Country and Boys Track Coach at Cleveland High School
Episode 102 - Andrea McArdle & Sean Abeyta; Talking Coach and Runner Dynamics
Episode 101 - Amber Zimmerman; 2024 USA Olympic Marathon Trials Qualifier
Episode100 - Dinée Dorame; Host of the Grounded Podcast
Episode 99 - Marc Quiñones; Executive Chef at Más Tapas y Vino, Marathoner, Runner
Episode 98 - Ryan Bolton; Bolton Endurance, 2000 Olympian, Coach
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