Final Surge Podcast

Episode 137: Brad Curtis is the cross country coach of a small school in Arizona. Their boy's team this year is a top ten school in the state, not bad for a school of only 200 kids with only 12 boys on the team. We talk to Brad about the struggles of being a coach from such a small school and how he has built a strong culture.   1:10 When did you start in running? 2:08 His background in boxing and how far the boxing career went 4:02 How did that lead to being a cross country and track coach? 4:59 How old is the school and how big is it? 4:58 You are competing in a state where some schools have 3-4,000 kids 6:23 Small school makes it tough in what way? 7:52 How many kids are on the high school team? 8:15 When you took over the program from Josh how big was the team at the time? 9:00 When your team is not big and not competitive how do you entice kids to come out and get involved? 10:50 How big is your middle school program? 11:38 Are you losing them because you are a small school without the resources or facil