Coach Albright! How are you doing? I got the link and I am trying it out! It is cold in Wisconsin today- yesterday UW-Whitewater hosted our annual Learn-by-Doing clinic. We had over 40 athletes show up and work on improving their technique and confidence. They were undaunted by the 5-7 inches of snow that we got through-out the morning! I am glad that it happened since I was 'sitting' on $800 woth of dri-fit shirts! Next weekend is our WIAC Indoor Championship! We are doing well- we have over 50 women on the team AND competing and this is BY FAR is the best team that I have had since coming here in 2005-2006. I would love to say that we are going to win the conference championship- but that would be very untrue. You can check out the conference honor roll at http://www.pttiming.com/ and clicking on the honor roll! Make sure you have you BIG GOLD book for conversions... I would love to make it back for the reunion. I have to run it by the boss, first! We have some vacation plans- but none of them are returning to PA! This is a great idea and I hope more alumni stop by and post a comment. I am very busy right now with teaching 4 classes and coaching-PLUS my family- wife and 3 daughters, a mortgage and other adult responsibilities but there are DOWN times in the life of a college track and field coach... I do refer to my experiences as an athlete at Hempfield in my coaching classes. I also tell them that they can call me Mr., Coach or just plain Wied. (weed)- since Wiederrecht is a mouthful. Then I tell them that Wied. is from Hempfield- they find that hard to believe (home of the BLACK KNIGHTS). The story that I do relay to them is the time when we were returning from a cool down- I think we had completed ISLANDS since our 'all-weather' track was under the weather, and there was a young lady who I did not have a high opinion of- and I let it be known (I was young and foolish- maybe that is why God blessed me with 3 daughters). I was standing in the lobby of the Buchanan Gym and you came up to me and booted me in the rear-end. I was shocked at first- and then you said you expected that from J.W. (name withheld for privacy) and not from me! You were absolutely correct. I needed a few more of those. Now don't panic- I tell my coaches TO BE to NEVER kick or hit their athletes- regradless of HOW MUCH they deserve it. It was a different time. If I would have told my mom- she would have hit me harder for speaking like that! Well- I need to go fold some laundry! I will return to see if anyone else is still out there!
In track, Dave Wiederrecht- Class of '87 Head Women's track and field coach at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater- uww.edu wiederrd@uww.edu
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Coach Albright! How are you doing? I got the link and I am trying it out! It is cold in Wisconsin today- yesterday UW-Whitewater hosted our annual Learn-by-Doing clinic. We had over 40 athletes show up and work on improving their technique and confidence. They were undaunted by the 5-7 inches of snow that we got through-out the morning! I am glad that it happened since I was 'sitting' on $800 woth of dri-fit shirts!
ReplyDeleteNext weekend is our WIAC Indoor Championship! We are doing well- we have over 50 women on the team AND competing and this is BY FAR is the best team that I have had since coming here in 2005-2006. I would love to say that we are going to win the conference championship- but that would be very untrue. You can check out the conference honor roll at http://www.pttiming.com/ and clicking on the honor roll! Make sure you have you BIG GOLD book for conversions...
I would love to make it back for the reunion. I have to run it by the boss, first! We have some vacation plans- but none of them are returning to PA!
This is a great idea and I hope more alumni stop by and post a comment. I am very busy right now with teaching 4 classes and coaching-PLUS my family- wife and 3 daughters, a mortgage and other adult responsibilities but there are DOWN times in the life of a college track and field coach...
I do refer to my experiences as an athlete at Hempfield in my coaching classes. I also tell them that they can call me Mr., Coach or just plain Wied. (weed)- since Wiederrecht is a mouthful. Then I tell them that Wied. is from Hempfield- they find that hard to believe (home of the BLACK KNIGHTS). The story that I do relay to them is the time when we were returning from a cool down- I think we had completed ISLANDS since our 'all-weather' track was under the weather, and there was a young lady who I did not have a high opinion of- and I let it be known (I was young and foolish- maybe that is why God blessed me with 3 daughters). I was standing in the lobby of the Buchanan Gym and you came up to me and booted me in the rear-end. I was shocked at first- and then you said you expected that from J.W. (name withheld for privacy) and not from me! You were absolutely correct. I needed a few more of those. Now don't panic- I tell my coaches TO BE to NEVER kick or hit their athletes- regradless of HOW MUCH they deserve it. It was a different time. If I would have told my mom- she would have hit me harder for speaking like that!
Well- I need to go fold some laundry! I will return to see if anyone else is still out there!
In track,
Dave Wiederrecht- Class of '87
Head Women's track and field coach at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater- uww.edu
wiederrd@uww.edu