Hurdles are so popular in terms of their athletic application most football teams have adopted stepping “hurdle” drills for warm-up and flexibility, both in and out-of-season. In addition to linebackers, there is a long list of defensive backs, wide receivers and running backs that had high school and collegiate hurdling backgrounds. I suspect many linebacker types are drawn to the event for the reason mentioned above. There are many examples of collegiate and NFL linebackers that successfully participated in hurdles during their high school career. Hurdlers are taught to “attack” the hurdle and “be the first to hurdle out of the blocks”. Both the high and intermediate races are very intense and physically demanding events. Athletes that participate in the hurdles must take a “linebacker” mentality into the event. Hurdles indicate not only a certain level of straight-line speed but more so agility, flexibility and coordination, all of which play prominently in the game of football. TrackingFootball says: The hurdle events require practice, coordination, speed and consistency. Tony Brown of Beaumont Ozen High School, now an Alabama football player Ishmael Zamora ran 13.68, Chance Casey ran 13.80, and Austin Jupe ran 14.14. Baylor’s football hurdlers aren’t quite as good. Marlon Humphrey ran 13.24, and Tony Brown ran 13.38. The 2014 Illinois state champ was Antonio Shenault of Lake Park running 14.14.Įven though 14.14 is a great time for the Lake Park junior, the Crimson Tide has two hurdlers who would have made Shenault look slow. My hope every year is to have a freshmen under 17.00 (last year 17.00), and a couple of varsity guys under 15.00 (last year 14.55 and 15.04). They got it all started in the early days of Plainfield North. In 2009, Alec was my hurdle coach, Troy was a senior hurdler, and Quinn was a freshmen hurdler. Much of that credit goes to my three sons. Plainfield North has been blessed with great hurdlers. When asked to describe the qualities of elite hurdlers, he said, “Speed, coordination, rhythm, power, and coachability.” College football coaches like those kinds of players. See Derek Hanson’s article “ Why Do Hurdlers Make Great Football Players?.” My son, Alec, is a terrific hurdle coach. Because many high school football players are either participating in other winter sports or focusing on out-of-season weight training and agilities we’ll focus on the outdoor season aspect of these events.Īll comments, insights and pics below are Coach Holler’s unless noted.ġ10 HIGH HURDLES … This is the only event that competes with the 100 as the ultimate race of athleticism for football players. These events are run competitively indoor as well but at the high school level are primarily outdoor events. This time we will focus on the hurdle races and how they relate to quantifying football speed.
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In Part Three of this blog series we looked at Outdoor Track, The Relays and Football. TrackingFootball would like to thank him again and please take a look at one of his other articles which has generated over 5K shares on social media and over 20,000 views ’10 Reasons to Join the Track Team’. Coach Holler was gracious enough to allow us to use his article and viewpoints here and to expand it some more with more additional football references.
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13 Track & Field Events that Quantify Football Power & Speed – Part IV: Outdoor Track, The Hurdles and Footballīelow are portions of an article written by Tony Holler, Head Track & Field Coach at Plainfield North High School. The full article can be viewed on.
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