Brandon Tripp

Huge shout out to the amazing @NPGrizzliesTF moms who came out to our 2026 Mama Bear practice! 🐻🐾 It was awesome sharing the track with our biggest supporters. 🏃‍💛 #MamaBears #TrackMoms

Its track season! #25k

🚨 Meet Day 🏅 Season's Open Meet 🏫 North Point High School 🎟 $0.00 (Admission Free) 🕑 Field Events Start @ 3:30 PM 🕑 Track Events Start @ 3:30 PM 🐻⬇️

Building a great team takes a village. Thank you to all our amazing @NPGrizzliesTF parents for your endless support! We love bringing back our pre-meet meals to get everyone energized, connected, and fueled up for tomorrow's home meet. See you at the track! 🐻⬇️

@GWR Risk vs. Reward

Heaviest single repetition Turkish get-up - 116.83 kg (257.56 lbs) achieved by Burak Yazgi (Türkiye) 💪

@CoachBrandonJr No doubt.

@RunCoachTripp I’m a fan of sprinters sprinting to become faster. We can always stretch some speed out. But trying to go the long and slow route is just backwards (to me at least)

Same for sprints.

@Tier1athlete Stiffness without a character limit in more detail is referring to ankle stiffness. The ability to transfer energy and spring back without energy loss due to the heal collapsing. You can measure A-Switches on mats like the Just Jump. Anything you can measure, you can improve.

@RunCoachTripp I agree with posture, balance. Can you give more on why stiffness & especially how it helps turnover?

I am not a fan of boom booms sprint drill. I feel it doesn't translate to improved sprinting & mechanics. There is no hip projection, no forward propulsion, the sprint cyclical pattern is not the same. What is the reason why you do boom booms with your athletes?

@chris_paavola I see the view point. So many states have adopted more classes so it waters down the competition pool. A Class 3A champion quarterback may not carry the same status as a Class 8A QB. The game has changed a lot since the 90s and early 2000s. Colleges need READY MADE players.

@RunCoachTripp If you’re elite, you’re elite. Schools will pay students to take tests for you. There are plenty of schools every year who bend over backwards to get All American players with poor grades. Sadly, I think it’s: 4 2 3 1

A HS QB can throw for 4,000 yards, have 2,000 rushing yards, be awarded All-Conference and All-State...but if this same QB is 5'8" 175 lb, D1 is a long shot. Recruiters look at: 1️⃣ Grades 2️⃣ Size (Ht/Wt) 3️⃣ Speed / Power Metrics 4️⃣ Film, Stats, Accolades ⬆️ In that order.

@CoachBrettPoway @Coach_Carter34 There is no such thing as absolutes. There are always anomalies

I’m not disagreeing with you, but most of the athletes that I’ve coached over 24+ years that received D1 scholarships were below those size metrics. Speed, explosiveness, game changer, and grades will get you to DI. But I’ve also coached many great athletes that were “non qualifiers” out of high school. Some didn’t meet the SAT standards. Some didn’t meet the GPA, and one came from an orphanage in Africa and was forced into special education in HS (PS- that young man now has his college degree and is rated as the #2 DT in the country)! The mindset and determination to be great is what will separate the physically blessed from the dawgs. Height and weight is easy to the eye for the man that doesn’t know football. I could list off names for days, of football players in Div 1 and NFL Hall Of Fame that don’t meet these metrics.

We not even gonna recognize the @ChicagoBears roster next year. If winning one playoff game means losing 75% of your starters in the off-season, I'd hate to see them win two.

I appreciate the blessing of having a 150m long 5% grade hill on campus. It provides an amazing tempo opportunity for our long sprinters: Athletes can maintain an upright posture, light ground contacts, and proper knee drive...building capacity without frying the CNS. #UP #TEMPO

@NPGrizzliesFB @NP_Grizzly_AD @NPCoachHankins @CoachMyersNP @JustinSchmidt03 @CoachGregory77 Keep up the great work guys

BE GREAT TOP 10 Rating is from 3 criteria: 1) Attendance - Gotta be there to be GREAT! 2) Grades 3) 5 Star Rating (Strength & Speed) Keep working men!! #BeGREAT

@ajajgoody 🤣 oh for sure. This hat is the only thing I can fit from 20+ years ago.

@RunCoachTripp My FZS 99 shirt has you beat. 👵🏼

I wore a hat today older than every kid on my team 🤣.

The ladies came out firing as well with the top 2 running 18+ MPH ⚡️. Iron sharpens iron and they are getting better every single day. #grizzlyspeed 🐻⬇️

(3) Sophomores running 20 MPH+ over 30m.⚡️ 8 of the top 10 times today came from Fresh/Soph 😱 #grizzlyspeed #runwithus🐻⬇️

@400rnner06 It takes a second for the lightbulb because we are wired to coach how we were coached.

@RunCoachTripp this thought makes more sense as i get older