The 2007 IASAS Track and Field season is officially over and what ride it was. I just got back from Singapore where Singapore American School hosted all three spring IASAS sports on their massive campus. It also happened to be the 25th anniversary of IASAS so there was much fanfare over the three days of competition. My boys relay teams dominated the meet closing out the final day with a huge win in the 4 x 400m. The picture says it all.

With the season over I can get back to writing down and sharing the loads of ideas I have and continue to work through.

This post is for all of the coaches out there.

This season I decided to use a blog as one means of communicating with my team. The Panther Track Team Blog was used to post workouts, team resources and other general announcements. Using a free resource like blogger made it easy to create a forum where students could feedback about workouts and also see what was coming up on the competitive calendar. The other major benefit to using a blog as a coaching tool is that all of my workouts are posted in chronological order so that next season I can easily review what I was doing at that same time the year before and improve on it. There is not much difference between this and a website but it’s cost and easy of use make it a great choice for coaches who want to have a communication portal for their teams and don’t have much technical background.

Get you coaches using one today!