Daniel Clements

Confidence!

Back-to-back Champs! Your Vikings Boys are 4A Region IV Track & Field Champions once again, bringing home the title with 70 points in a dominant team performance. Congratulations to our athletes and coaches for the hard work, dedication, and determination that made it happen.

Two teachers can teach the same curriculum with the same activities—and get completely different results. Because in the end, it’s the teacher who brings the curriculum to life. There’s no way around that.

Congrats to our 8th Grade Tennis team on a great Meet! Jake Walker and Blake Viruette placed 2nd in Doubles Autumn Clements and Eva Navarro are District Champs Tallulah Hardy and Titus Burgos placed 2nd in Mixed Doubles Weldon Stockyard and Gracyn Koncak are District Champs

Your athlete walks up to you in warm-ups at the Regional meet. Says their legs feel bouncy. Says they've never felt better. You feel great about it. Then they run 12 seconds slower than their April PR. Most coaches call it nerves. It's almost never nerves. You dropped volume and intensity during the taper. The neuromuscular system forgot what race pace feels like. Race pace isn't cardio. It's a motor pattern. Specific fibers firing in sequence. Tendons storing and releasing energy at a specific rhythm. Ground contact, hip extension, arm drive — all wired to that speed through repetition. It's a skill. Like shooting a free throw. Stop practicing it, and it fades. Research shows measurable drops in running economy after just 5–7 days without race pace exposure. The fitness is still there. The coordination isn't. The athlete tells you: I feel fine, I just can't find my gear. You wanted them rested. They showed up rusted.

Despite what you see online by so-called speed gurus who train kids like adults, young athletes do not need sprint technique training. Early on, speed isn’t about mechanics— it’s about building movement capacity. Kids need variety, diversity, and novelty of movement, not repetition of ideal form. This develops: Coordination Timing Rhythm Spatial awareness Adaptability Many sports and game-based activities require children to run using unorthodox, variable patterns. Over-coaching technique narrows solutions. Expanding the environment builds capability. Skip the drills. Use: Games Races Hills Resistance Reactive work Kids’ bodies are constantly changing, growing, and reorganizing. There is no single “perfect” sprint pattern. Expose them to more. Not less. Technique isn’t forced— it emerges. Build the athlete first. Refine later. #LTAD

The 1600m runner should be able to... • Run a very good 3200m...one distance "up" • Run a very good 800m...one distance "down" • Run a solid 5000m/5k...two distances up • Run a solid 400m...two distances down Can you?

2012. First day of XC practice. Biggest roster I'd ever had. Most of them had never run competitively. Some of them looked like they'd never run at all. But they showed up. I ran them through my standard workouts. Good workouts. Workouts I believed in. Workouts designed for runners they weren't yet. By October, half the roster was gone. I didn't notice it happening at first. One kid stops coming—you figure it's schedule stuff. Two more, maybe they weren't committed. But when you lose twenty kids in eight weeks, that's not a commitment problem. That's a coaching problem. Those kids showed up every day and failed. Not because they were soft. Because the bar I set was built for who I wanted them to be, not who they actually were. They didn't quit running. They quit feeling like failures. I don't coach that way anymore.

Can’t be more proud of this kid. #AETT @AthleticsLago

This is gold if you're a middle distance runner!

School Record Alert 🚨!!! Camila Berrios lowers the LVMS girls 800m time 4 seconds with her performance Wednesday. Her first season running track has been nothing but impressive! Keep it up Camila! #AETT

LVMS has another record holder from our last home meet! Isabel Currey adds another 800m record to the books early in 2026... and only in 7th grade! This kid has a bright future! #AETT @AthleticsLago

A school record for Tyler Tarlton! Tarlton crush his previous record at the LVMS and has his sights set on the 400m tonight!!! #AETT @AthleticsLago

🚨AGAIN🚨 A schedule like this ⬇️ M: HS track/private trainer Tu: HS track/club W: HS Meet/skills trainer Th: HS track/club F: HS track Sat: HS Meet Sun: Club game or tournament There is very little recovery. Little room for growth. Please understand this!

Early season PR and school record! Way to go Miggy!

800m Workout - Lane 8 Fartlek

Huge congratulations to our 7th grade A Lady Viking Basketball Team on an incredible season and a well-earned District Championship!

Lago Vista ties the UIL State Record with its 6th state title. The Vikings are 4A-D2 #UILState Spirit Champions! 🏆 FINAL STANDINGS 🥇Lago Vista 🥈Texarkana Pleasant Grove 🥉Hudson Final Standings: bit.ly/3ZD9BA0

Morning Routine!

Big wins today!!! 8a and 7a girls bball tournament champs down in Wimberley!!!!Both team go 3-0 against tough teams to start the season!