#185: Nate Rucker-Upper Iowa University

#185: Nate Rucker-Upper Iowa University

Can a volleyball game help find someone's passion to coach college track and field? Learn the journey of Nate Rucker, head coach of the Peacocks from Upper Iowa in today's podcast episode. Hear him share his life changing volleyball match as an undergrad at University of Dubucque and the career he built from that epiphany. He travels to Missouri, Iowa, St. Louis, and even Alabama and he creates a career in the NCAA and NAIA ranks. You'll enjoy the challenge he inhereited and accepted at Central Methodist when he found himself the coach of a national champion racewalker. And we even have some fun talking about the southern food experience during his time at Huntingdon College.

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#352: Rick and Brett Witt-UW-Stevens Point | A 50-Year Coaching Legacy, A Father–Son Transition

#352: Rick and Brett Witt-UW-Stevens Point | A 50-Year Coaching Legacy, A Father–Son Transition

What happens when a program built over five decades gets handed—quite literally—from father to son?In this special father–son edition of the Gill Connections Podcast, longtime UW–Stevens Point legend ...

2 Mars 1h 47min

#119: Gill1918 presents Sammy Dabbs "High Hurdles Part 2" from Tampa Bay/USF Clinic

#119: Gill1918 presents Sammy Dabbs "High Hurdles Part 2" from Tampa Bay/USF Clinic

The crew at the University of South Florida put on an excellent clinic in Tampa, Fla this past fall of 2025. Speakers included Sammy Dabbs, Erik Jenkins, Vince Anderson, Chris Korfist, and Dwight Phil...

26 Feb 21min

#118: Gill1918 presents Sammy Dabbs "High Hurdles Part 1" from Tampa Bay/USF Clinic

#118: Gill1918 presents Sammy Dabbs "High Hurdles Part 1" from Tampa Bay/USF Clinic

The crew at the University of South Florida put on an excellent clinic in Tampa, Fla this past fall of 2025. Speakers included Sammy Dabbs, Erik Jenkins, Vince Anderson, Chris Korfist, and Dwight Phil...

25 Feb 26min

#117: Gill1918 Presents Coach/Author David Emeott “Coaching Your Own Children” Powered by Coach O

#117: Gill1918 Presents Coach/Author David Emeott “Coaching Your Own Children” Powered by Coach O

Dave has coached hundreds, maybe thousands of athletes over his career at East Kentwood HS in MI. Coaching his own 3 kids came with many joys and also lessons learned for him and every member of the f...

24 Feb 12min

#351: Fireside chat with HoF Coach Randy Huntington Part 2 | Big Rocks, Coaching the Coach & the Long View of Track & Field

#351: Fireside chat with HoF Coach Randy Huntington Part 2 | Big Rocks, Coaching the Coach & the Long View of Track & Field

Part 2 of our fireside chat with Randy Huntington goes deeper than technique and medals. This is a conversation about legacy, empathy, curiosity, and what it really means to coach—especially when the ...

23 Feb 3h 25min

#116: Gill1918 presents Zontavious Johnson "Coaching the Short and Long Hurdles Part 2"

#116: Gill1918 presents Zontavious Johnson "Coaching the Short and Long Hurdles Part 2"

Back in the fall of 2025, Coach Marques Lowe (Gill podcast alum!) and the Vipers Track Club hosted a Central Illinois Pre-Season Coaches Clinic. To increase the value to other coaches, he has allowed ...

19 Feb 25min

#115: Gill1918 presents Zontavious Johnson "Coaching the Short and Long Hurdles Part 1"

#115: Gill1918 presents Zontavious Johnson "Coaching the Short and Long Hurdles Part 1"

Back in the fall of 2025, Coach Marques Lowe (Gill podcast alum!) and the Vipers Track Club hosted a Central Illinois Pre-Season Coaches Clinic. To increase the value to other coaches, he has allowed ...

18 Feb 23min

#114: Gill1918 Presents Coach Evander Wells “How I Use AI as a Coach” Powered by Coach O

#114: Gill1918 Presents Coach Evander Wells “How I Use AI as a Coach” Powered by Coach O

Evander is the Men's and Women's Associate Head T&F Coach at the University of North Florida primarily coaching sprints, jumps, and hurdles, but also juggling all of the other duties of an NCAA coach....

17 Feb 12min

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