i'm ali:)

sophomore at marriotts ridge in maryland...sprinter!

4x4/2/1 and hurdles.

300m hurdles county champ:)

i love art and music. i'm not shy, but at first can be extremelyyy awkward hahah

yellow is my favorite color in case you were wondering.

running and i have a love-hate relationship...the kind that you would never ever get out of.

if you're cool feel free to let me know :)

helpppp! :(

i need some advice...im a sophomore in high school and i run sprints and hurdles. my coach was great and we were all really close with him.last year our team really made a name for itself when my 4x4 team won first place at penn relays! it was a big deal since our school is only a couple years old. anyway, what our coach really wanted to do was teach and our school wouldnt offer him a job, so he quit and got a teaching job at a school in another county. We were devastated that he left us, but it got even worse when we found out that he was going to coach their track team. this really freaked us out because now we had no coach. the xc coach is now our head coach and one of the soccer coaches is helping him out. unfortunately, the soccer coach has nooo freaking clue what shes doing and the xc coach turned track coach doesnt have enough experience to lead the whole team. we're all scared for this season because we know these coaches arent going to be able to help us and we're basically going to be coaching ourselves, plus it seriously blows because none of our seniors are coming back to run this year and tons of the upper classmen have already quit when the season only started on monday. i dont know what to do. also, the stupid xc coach decided he wants to run a mile warmup, which may help the distance kids but definitely wont help the sprinters. what we used to do with our old coach was a quickly paced 800 and then a dynamic warmup with drills to help stretch us out and get warm, but a mile wont do anything for us besides tighten us up and make us more tired. so what should we do?i dont know how to go about this. my coach deserves respect, but as a team we have a right to let him know when hes doing it all wrong.