Here's how a coaching legacy in women's track has spanned three generations of runners — including Olympic silver medalist Cheryl Toussaint.
As a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Cheryl Toussaint was fast.
"I saw something extraordinary. I saw young women, young girls, actually doing strides and calisthenics in a group. They looked like they were having fun. They were very organized. They had on uniforms. And it just made me stop and watch and try to sort of understand — remember I'm 13 now — what on earth is going on out here?"
Toussaint says this sort of structure and organization was new for her. She stuck around, and she learned more about her new coach.At first, Coach Fred Thompson might sound like the sort of committed coach you’ve heard about before: a strict disciplinarian and also something of a father figure — one of those coaches who requires their athletes to bring in their report cards every quarter.
Toussaint did have the energy. She qualified, becoming the first member of the Atoms Track Club to make the Olympics. But Toussaint says she was being primed the whole time to take over for Thompson. And she says just like in her own running career where she kept improving and advancing, she’d also been building her skill set to take over the Colgate Women’s Games.
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