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Ushan Perera taking flight at Texas Relays.

Ralph Mann spit fire: "I can tell you that the elite coaches that I work with rarely—usually never—personally put anything coaching-related on social media. They spend most of their time with their athletes, or preparing for the next day, week, or month of development. Major presence on the web is primarily done by those that are selling something, trying to convince their followers that they are an elite-level coach, or looking for their next paid consultant job or presentation."

We couldn't do it without them! To our athletic trainers, Happy #NationalAthleticTrainingMonth and THANK YOU! #HailET

Trump fundraising pitch features U.S. soldiers killed in Iran war @CNBC A deplorable evil little man. cnbc.com/2026/03/14/tru…

Jenneil Jacobie set to represent East Texas A&M at the NCAA Indoor National Championships - East Texas A&M University Athletics lionathletics.com/news/2026/3/13…

One day till Jenneil Jacobie takes center stage at @NCAATrackField Indoors! #HailET

Good luck to Lion Pride Robotics, who has hosted the Halftime Robot Battles at @Lion_MBB and @Lion_WBB games, at the World Championships! #HailET

Eisenhower: Vietnam Nixon: Laos and Cambodia Reagan: Grenada, Iran/CONTRA Bush-I: Iraq-1.0 Bush-II: Iraq-2.0 and Afghanistan Trump: Iran Can't have a GOP administration without a war and recession.

Workout was 250, 200, 150 w/full recovery, so these were FAST reps (15, girl) That 200m is a half sec PB. Considering the conditions, the workout was shut down. This validated the 21.5 for 180m she did the previous day. Run rounds in meets, run rounds in training.

Next Stop: @NCAATrackField Indoor National Championships for Jenneil Jacobie! #HailET

@Fred__Duncan So true So much rebranding. Coach Vigil’s physiology principles from the late 70’s and Dan Pfaff’s continuous teachings seem to become “this is what I do” on media. Credit the founding fathers. Read the classics.

Training “innovations” you see on social media today were being solved fifty years ago. Good training principles don’t expire. The internet just rediscovers them every few years and rebrands them. If you want to understand how these principles actually apply to building

@Tier1athlete @BurnTheLadders @MarkHoover71 @BurkesRodney My friend I use an energy system chart (Winckler) and prescribe dribbling based on time of execution. Recovery height (over ankle, at or over gastroc, at or over knee) is my governor on speed of the limb.

@lightrock22 @BurnTheLadders @MarkHoover71 @BurkesRodney Are do you go about measuring dribbling velocities & what specific range of velocity are you wanting to see?

Rehab prepares athletes to move. Sport demands they move fast. Yet there is a gap between the two @ALTIS recently compared #ActivatorBelt Belt Dribbles vs 75% Sprint Strides The gait characteristics were surprisingly similar Where do dribbles fit in your sprint progression?

@Tier1athlete @BurnTheLadders @MarkHoover71 @BurkesRodney The ability to demonstrate technically sound higher dribbling velocities over a very short duration is a positive Plan B from a coordination standpoint Return to practice bridge blending into a return to play bridge

Coaches — where do dribbles fit in your training tool box 1️⃣ Max Velocity 2️⃣ Plan B 3️⃣ Return-to-play bridge This creates discussion replies, which drives reach. @BurnTheLadders @MarkHoover71 @BurkesRodney @lightrock22

@HURcoachdabb First year for ETAMU full D1 status and Jenneil got me back to the big show. School record and SLC all time best High Jumper. Pre-Med student athlete.

If you have had an indoor qualifier AFTER they stopped having prov and auto marks, is an accomplishment. It means you coached one of the best 16 ath in the NCAA that year. Getting a high school kid to put up something on this list is next level 😉 Shout out those coaches as well

Jacobie qualifies for NCAA Indoor National Championships lionathletics.com/news/2026/3/3/…

NATIONALS BOUND! Jenneil Jacobie has qualified to compete in the high jump at the @NCAATrackField Indoor National Championships! #HailET

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA, You say that Donald Trump “loves our troops.” So, once again, I want to know why that is. Is it because he received 5 deferments (for a fake medical condition) from the draft during the Vietnam War? Or is it the time he bragged that “avoiding STDs” was his personal equivalent of military combat? Is it because he demeaned a POW, attacked a Gold Star family and told a military widow that her deceased husband “knew what he had signed up for.” Was it the time he downplayed the traumatic head injuries suffered by our troops after a missile attack as “not real” because they weren’t “missing hands and limbs.” Is it the time he said he didn’t want to be seen with war-wounded amputees and to keep them forever out of his sight, or the time he called our fallen heroes of war “suckers” and “losers”? Was it the time he skipped an event in France honoring our Marines because it was raining? Is it all the times he called our military leaders “dumb” and “overrated” while calling terrorists like the Taliban & Hezbollah “very smart”? Was it the time he demanded the flags after McCain’s death be returned to full mast, or the time he demanded that a ship bearing his name be blocked from view? Was it when he suggested that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserved to be executed? Maybe it was when he asked Gen. John Kelly (who lost his son in combat) why anyone would sign up for service because as far as he saw it, there was “nothing in it for them.” Perhaps it was hearing him say that as President he would allow our adversary to attack the same allies this country’s Greatest Generation fought beside and died defending? Or was it when he insulted Nikki Haley’s husband for currently serving our country overseas? Was it when he said the Medal of Freedom he gave to his rich donors was “much better” than the Medal of Honor because the recipients of that honor are “in bad shape or dead.” Was it when he insisted on using the sacred shrine that is Arlington National Cemetery, the final resting place for more than 400,000 veterans and their families, as a photo op for his campaign despite the fact that he wasn’t allowed to do so and officials there were attacked by his staff for trying to stop him? Was it when he decimated the VA and gutted a suicide prevention hotline meant to help our veterans in their darkest hour? Is it the fact that he’s fired more of our veterans than any other president in our history? Or was it when he skipped the dignified transfer of the four soldiers who died in Lithuania so he could host a glittery gala at his gilded golf motel for the folks who funded 9/11? Was it the time he droned on about “trophy wives” while wearing a MAGA hat to the West Point graduation? Or the time he talked about the “Olympics” and the “World Cup” on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery? Or was it when he called for the execution of several Democratic lawmakers because they made a video reminding service members to refuse unlawful orders? Which of those things makes you believe he loves our troops? Which one? Because he just sent three of our service members to their deaths for an illegal war he never justified, never explained, didn’t seek Congressional approval for, and has no plan to extract us from. The guy who PROMISED you he was the one to end ALL FOREIGN WARS is using OUR troops as props in a deadly game that is undoubtedly lining HIS pockets while making all of us far less safe at the same damn time. And I just don’t understand how you don’t see that. So what is it? Because for the life of me, I can’t figure it out, and I’d really, really love to know.

@SFA_TFXC PENTATHLON FINAL 🥇Basia Mitchell, @SFA_TFXC 🥈 Tina Samson, @Lion_Track 🥉 Thea Ring, @NSUDemonsTF

🏆 @SouthlandSports CHAMPION! Peyton Berry brings home a 🥇 to Northeast Texas in her first ever collegiate conference championships meet! #HailET

🥈SILVER MEDAL! Kira Van Den Ham also reaches the podium securing a 1-2 placement for @etamuniversity! #HailET