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New track coach Brett Madsen has seen recent success through his efforts to grow the program. Building up the younger athletes hoping that in the future they will be able to take state.
We’ve got a lot of young runners and they’re actually competing pretty well,” Madsen said, “In a couple of years, we will be competing to win region and to put some banners on the wall, hopefully.”
This comes from his background with sports and coaching. He has been coaching at the NS high school for about fifteen years as a football coach. When he was younger he used to play football, basketball, baseball, and he used to run track in high school. He has two kids who run track and his wife coaches track as well. He loves giving back to the community and helping kids.
“I knew there was a vacancy, so I thought, this could be my way to give back to the track kids and make a stronger football team, stronger basketball team, and just stronger sports categories,” Madsen said.
Madsen is over the sprints in the track events, and overall there are about 50 – 60 kids in track and field, which for NS is pretty good considering everyone can only participate in six events each. This means track coaches have to be very thorough in choosing which events the kids get to participate in, because the kids need to be able to participate in what events are best for them, and sometimes this leads to people leaving track.
“I think everybody gets excited, but the ‘stick to it when it gets hard’ is sometimes lacking,” Cheryl Hadley the sports director at NSHS said.
It has been noticed that oftentimes students want to try something new but aren’t able to stick with it because it’s too hard or they can’t. This is becoming a recurring theme in today’s society and has greatly affected the students at NS, but once they get into it and become committed and figure out how it works, they begin to really enjoy it.
Although most are not willing to put in all the work, there are some willing to put the work in, and give their all doing it, but even though it is usually a single person sport, the team needs to work together to help each other through it and eventually win.
“I had Many positive experiences playing sports in high school,” Madsen said, “thanks to some incredible coaches who made a lasting impact on me. Athletics was a huge motivator, pushing me to excel academically because I knew good grades were essential for my goal of playing college football. While I wasn’t always the most motivated student, my passion for sports drove me to succeed in the classroom.”
