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@SportsDayHS @DMNGregRiddle @uiltexas @TAPPSbiz @ihss_dfw @HSwfaa @JoeJHoyt @FBA_Sports @LDBellFootball @jlovvorn7 @dctf @DFWGRIDIRON baseball, softball and track/field already lost seasons, so now you want them to be in the Fall with the potential of losing another season and not resuming play for another year and and a half, Spring '22? no thanks

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented ideas. The idea of flip-flopping fall and spring seasons is gaining support among Dallas-area coaches, but will UIL and TAPPS go for it? Story via @DMNGregRiddle: buff.ly/3dGCOAy 👈 #txhsfb 🏈

Chachi (Anastacia) Gonzales and coach Kenny Dirkson break down her Spartan Inv. 800m race. tx.milesplit.com/articles/28220…

🚨2020 Season Opener🚨 @vallman123 places 🥇 with a mark of 6️⃣5️⃣.0️⃣2️⃣m / 2️⃣1️⃣3️⃣-4️⃣ in her first competition of the season. Okay, the reality is that it was a one-human mock-meet, but Valarie still flew that thaaaang pretty well 😂 • #ThrowsBySion #Discus #DiscusThrow #Athletics

High Jump Drills trackandfieldtoolbox.net/field-events/h…

Some coaches who were not in an uproar about spring sports season being canceled are acting different now that it’s hitting a little close to home....

“It is not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it is refusing to fail.”

@DMNGregRiddle @ledsome_mike @SportsDayHS @SportsDayDFW @uiltexas @dctf @TAPPSbiz @THSCAcoaches @dallasnews @HoustonChron @statesman @MaxPreps @ihss_dfw @FOXSportsSW @247Sports @Rivals Club track has been shut down 90% - no AAU or USATF junior Olympics or TAAF. It's a shell of its normal self. It's a football push who found a way to play some 7 on 7, so all's good

@ledsome_mike @SportsDayHS @SportsDayDFW @uiltexas @dctf @TAPPSbiz @THSCAcoaches @dallasnews @HoustonChron @statesman @MaxPreps @ihss_dfw @FOXSportsSW @247Sports @Rivals This plan is being proposed in case the normal fall sports can’t be played in the fall. Club baseball, softball and track are currently all going on this summer and have shown that they can be played even during the worst of the pandemic. Football may not be possible in August.

Idea of flip-flopping fall and spring seasons is gaining support among coaches, but will UIL and TAPPS go for it? First Baptist coach Jason Lovvorn will propose that plan to TAPPS in next few days. Read: dallasnews.com/high-school-sp… #txhsfb @SportsDayHS @SportsDayDFW @uiltexas @dctf

4 from today's J.U.M.P. Smart Texas Girl's Long Jump competition: @JUMPSmartTexas @TXMileSplit @trackbarn @InsideTxTrack @abbygeiser_ @Kennittoo

Take 5 w/Fort Worth Nolan's Abby Geiser at the J.U.M.P. Smart Texas Girl's LJ Competition @abbygeiser_ @keithkotar_tri @jgeiser @DianeGeiser3 ... youtu.be/w8DeaqbTTtM

@DMNGregRiddle @TTFCA @SportsDayHS @SportsDayDFW @uiltexas @dctf @TAPPSbiz @THSCAcoaches @dallasnews @HoustonChron @statesman @MaxPreps @ihss_dfw @FOXSportsSW @247Sports @Rivals Not a fan of the idea. Imagine Fall sports get shut down again because of covid; they have their next season in a year and a half, Spring of 22? Spring athletes have already lost a season. Don't subject them to another.

At the JUMP Smart Texas Girls Long Jump competition at AP Ranch Jasmine Moore with the flags @TXMileSplit @JUMPSmartTexas @Kennittoo @trackbarn @Lake_RidgeTrack @Jasmineemoo @UGATrack

Congratulations to Brynn Brown, Gatorade Female High School Track & Field Athlete of the Year for Texas playeroftheyear.gatorade.com/poy/assets/wri… @brynntbrown @GuyerGirlsTrack @trackbarn @TXMileSplit @TexasXCCoaches @PonsonbyCoach @DentonRC

15 Minutes w/Anthony Meacham, nation's #1 returning male pole vaulter (Woodsboro HS) youtu.be/w2mE867vEf4 ... @vaultbarn @VaulterMagazine @polevaultpower @WoodsboroEagles @TXMileSplit @trackbarn

The TTFCA mourns the loss of longtime USATF official Marvin Rice to Covid-19. A true friend to the sport of Track and Field, especially in the DFW Metroplex. @TXMileSplit @InsideTxTrack @trackbarn

Four pictures from the 2019 NCAA Outdoors to mark what should be Day 1 of the 2020 NCAA Outdoors @NCAATrackField @TexasTFXC @AngryHalfMiler @InsideTxTrack @TXMileSplit @trackbarn @jbarrhookem @talex334 @jrichardsNORTH @TexasTechTF @Flaamingoo_ @UHCougarTF [pics by TTFCA]

Four for Day 2 of the NCAA Outdoors @TexasTFXC @allie_ostrander @WeAreSouth_JAGS @IowaXC_TF @AshtinZamzow @NCAATrackField [pics by TTFCA]

30 Minutes with TXMileSplit's Will Grundy - Will does an amazing job helping to promote XC and TF -- youtu.be/CpLM-h0N7bw @TXMileSplit @AngryHalfMiler @trackbarn @TexasXCCoaches @jrichardsNORTH @Coast2Coasttc @uiltexas @TappsTrack

Texas TF Hall of Fame Trivia: Earl Young * As an ACU sophomore, earned a spot on the 1960 Olympic team - 6th in the 400 (45.9) and Gold in the 4x400: then Olympic and WR - 3:02.2 * Two relays Golds in 1963 Pan American Games: 4x100 and 4x400 @ACU_TFXC

Texas TF Hall of Fame Trivia: Barbara Jacket * 1992 Olympic TF Coach * 1965, formed Women's TF team at Prairie View A&M * SWAC Coach of Year 21x * 23 SWAC Titles * 5 PV athletes qualified for Olympics, and 57 All-Americans * Member of 5 Halls of Fame @PVAMUPanthersTF @theswac

FYI - "The 1927 Texas Relays featured the first timed ultramarathon in the U.S., a 90-mile run from San Antonio to UT’s Memorial Stadium, at the time, 'the longest race in the world.'" Five rare pictures of Mexican Tarahumaran runners @TexasTFXC @jbarrhookem @TexasLonghorns