13yr old daughter needs proper training

[costello]

Please Help!!! Have 13yr old daughter with great potential in PV, but absolutely NO help from school coaching staff. She's in middle school track, 7th grade, personal best of 7'9" LAST YEAR. Track practice started a MONTH AGO and they have yet to allow the pv kids to train, making them run and help out with ALL other field events except PV. Tired of waiting for proper training from school coaching staff, ready to pay for personal trainer, but need to locate one......central IL, close to St. Louis, MO and Springfield, IL. Any ideas appreciated....THANKS!!!

[rainbowgirl28]

I would try and make it down to Bell Athletics sometime. A bit of a drive, but definitely worth it. They have 2-day camps almost every weekend this spring.

http://www.bellathletics.com/

[iliveforthis]

bell is the coolest place ever your girl will love it. i would live there if i could, and they know what their talking about their the best i've found

[vcpvcoach]

I need to clue you into a sad reality in IL. If your school does not have a teacher that wants to coach the vault then you are in trouble.

Let me explain....I just moved here from another state and I'm not a teacher but, rather, a walk on coach. At my last school in California, I coached both boys and girls taking one of on boys to the State meet last June. At the time, I knew the area that that we would be moving to and sent out many resumes.

The response I got.

Nada, from the local public high schools. It seems that in Illinois, the coaching jobs must first go to the current teaching staff, then the substitute teaching staff, then a teacher with credentails, and then to a walk on coach after he spends $250 on ISEP Coaching Classes and passing three tests.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

I did find a job with a great private school.

Our sport needs as many qualified coaches as we possibly can get and the IHSA is just greating in their own way with these stupid rules. I can only imagine how difficult it's to find coach at the middle school level. I wish you were closer (I'm NW of Chicago) or I would coach your daughter.

Please get in touch with Jim Lonergan at Maine South High School. He runs the Illinois Pole Vault Coach Asso. Go to www.ipvca.org. His link is at the bottom of the page.

If not, e-mail me and I'll do what I can to help.

Be careful, the IHSA has rule as to attending camps during the school year. I don't know governs the middle schools but it might wise to check out their rules.

Good luck

[katsmom]

costello-

You can make it happen for your daughter. We are in a small S. Ill. town that had no pole vaulters. When my daughter (now a Jr.) was a Freshman we took her to Bell camps in Oct,Nov, & Dec. to learn to pole vault. My husband, an attorney, volunteered to help the track team that Spring so she could vault. She had a great Freshman season.

The next season she won the Class A state title with a new state record.
They have been to Bell a dozen times since those first camps and they're headed down again this weekend.

Good luck to you and your daughter.

[souleman]

First of all, you need to post on one forum. It's kinda the rules around here. But anyway, here's what I posted for you on the North forum.

Be your daughter's coach. Get the book "From Beginner to Bubka". Follow it, instruct it, follow it to the "T" and be her coach. You can do it! It is a step by step road map to teaching, learning and doing pole vaulting. BUY THE BOOK! When I coached baseball I always had a "parents meeting". At that meeting I always wore my team baseball cap. During the meeting I would take my cap off of my head, offer it to the parents, and tell all the parents that if they wanted the cap they could have it . None of them did. Don't b**ch......buy the book and DO! I can guarantee you that the coaches would love to have you there. Yes, you would be there for your daughter. That's your pay for time spent. And, don't be ashamed by that fact either. Believe me though, the other kids that would benefit would be a wonderfull thing too. Don't be a stage Dad (we all are,ya know) be a coach. TAKE THE CAP AND PUT IT ON YOUR HEAD. Good luck..................Later........Mike

[altius]

Contact Paul Omi at pmomi@comcast.net. He is organising a pole vault clinic in St. Charles Il June 2 -4th.

[PVGrl2407]

Also if you ever have a chance to come up to chicago, Tim Johnson holds practice ever sunday at Bloom High School in the south suburbs. He's a great coach and is always open to new comers.

[jr]

I live in Beardstown,Ill and coach my 3 kids plus some other local vaulters. I would be glad to try to get together sometime and work with your daughter. e-mail me at hisnhers5@yahoo.com and let me know where you are located. We also have a vault club and vault all summer at Rushville high school.

[ladyvolspvcoach]

That's a great offer from JR. I have also heard of a girl jumping pretty well from Bradford HS whereever that is!!!

[ladycoach]

You can do it yourself. I am a coach that had no previous experience in PV 5 years ago. I researched the event, asked as many questions as I could and put myself into it or their would be nobody that would have coached our kids at the middle school I work at also. Since then I have had 5 district champions at my school.