As we start the first week of outdoor season with some fresh snow I wanted to take some time to reflect back on the past season and my past year and a half at Baldwin Wallace. I am excited where things are heading. We have a great group of kids that come to practice and work hard on a daily basis. The distance group has bought into the blue collar, hard nose work ethic and racing style. I think it showed at our conference meet. We had several young kids who performed at a high level at our biggest meet of the year. Several of them ended up on the podium some multiple times.
Culture is something that is talked about quite a bit, how do you build a culture what does a good culture look like? To me culture is about having standards and holding people to those standards. Its about doing the right thing when no one is looking. Its about doing the little things to the best of your ability. We have a kid on our team that ran with some of their high school teammates that go to another school in our conference over spring break. They were telling me, in an almost state of shock, that this team doesn't do a warmup or cool down at practice, they don't meet for runs at all on the weekends, most don't even run. They said they felt bad for making their former teammates wait to go for a run while they did their warm up before their spring break runs. To me this is what its all about. These are lessons that our athletes can take into the real world. They probably don't even realize it now, but it will help down the road both athletically but more importantly in life.
I am excited for outdoor and the future in general. Our current kids are doing a fantastic job and we have some very solid commits that I am excited about what they can add to the group! To outdoor we go.
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