The presentations and resources from the National Coach Development weekend in September are now available on the scottishathletics website – There are also a lot of of video clips uploaded from the workshop – sprinting , conditioning exercises and running mechanics. The running drills are best watched in ascending order as they…
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Scottish Athletics held its coach development weekend at the Emirates Indoor Arena, which again proved to be an invaluable learning experience for three Harriers coaches, Donald McIntosh, George Morton and Harald Bartl. The weekend started off with a workshop for coaches, who are enrolled on the new Event Group qualifications (level…
The recent web blog just prior to the Scottish Championships was titled ‘Preparation for Scottish Championships are going well‘ and now looking back I can say that careful preparation and planning certainly helped me as a coach to instill confidence in my athletes that things were going into the right…
With one week to go until the Scottish U14 Championships to be held this year in Aberdeen final preparations are progressing well and there is ground for optimism that some of our youngster won’t be coming home empty handed. It has to be said that we had been extremely lucky…
Although I cautiously predicted 6 weeks ago that a Kilmarnock Harrier athlete might be ready to compete in the upcoming Youth Development League, I certainly did not suggest that our athletes could actually win their respective competitions. But that’s exactly was happened today, Cara Baillie (U15) and Hannah Bartl (U17),…
16 young Harriers (U13/U15) had a fantastic training session on Friday evening at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena. For the first time this year the weather has been very welcoming, which possibly helped to make this training session a very good preparation for the upcoming West District next weekend. I personally…
Our Wednesday pole vault group has been making good progress and preparation are going well for the second Youth Development League match on 2nd June, which will be held at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena. Our current pole vault group consists of 3 Kilmarnock athletes and 3 Ayr Seaforth athletes: Hannah Bartl, Leigh…
Kilmarnock Harriers pole vault group travelled to Grangemouth stadium on Wednesday 1st May to compete for the first time in this event. The group consisting of Evie Bartl, Cara Baillie (both U15) and coach Harald felt fairly confident after the last training sessions, where all athletes registered good clearances over…
Kilmarnock Harriers are proud to offer a new exciting field event to our young athletes (age group U15 and above): Pole Vault. What initially only began as an experiment will now become a permanent feature in the curriculum among the other field events currently on offer to our young athletes. The…
This weekend saw an exciting coaching workshop take place at the Emirates Indoor Arena, which offered the chance to meet true world class coaches and athletes, like the British sprinter former 60m indoor world champion Dwain Chambers, London gold medalist in the triple jump Christian Taylor and American hurdler Danellie…
