I’m looking for some help with 4×100 baton exchanges for high school athletes. I’m a sprint coach in the Northeast with 3 returnees from a pretty good 2007 4×100. The kids I have coming back are a 11.40(1st), 11.31(2nd), and 10.83(anchor); all times are FAT from last spring. My leading candidate for the 3-hole ran 11.52 (FAT)last spring; he will be replacing a kid who ran 11.43. The team’s best time last year was 43.05 FAT.
The kids are multi-sport athletes (football, and basketball or indoor); all have been lifting pretty faithfully since last spring, and I believe all are faster than they were a year ago. Three are seniors and one is a junior. My ultimate goal is 41.99 by June!
I’m looking for some advice or information sources regarding baton exchanges. We have used a traditional model in past seasons (verbal call/downward pass; we practice a lot and the kids take the exhanges very seriously. I’m hoping that forum contributors can offer some advice and/or or direct me to sources (articles, et.al) that can help me take our exchanges to a greater level of proficiency.
Thanks.