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Valarie Allman : We Discuss the Discus American Record
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Valarie Allman : We Discuss the Discus American Record Keeping Track
Alysia and Molly talk to Team USA Discus thrower Valarie Allman about setting and AR during a pandemic, life as a thrower, what her other interests are and how to better spotlight and market field events.
Special thanks to Gatorade Endurance for sponsoring September’s theme of “Inspiring Sports women of the Pandemic”
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Workout Wed with Val:
The AR throw:
⭐️7️⃣0️⃣.1️⃣5️⃣⭐️
‼️AMERICAN RECORD‼️
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•#ThrowsBySion #AmericanRecord #Discus #DiscusThrow #USATF #Athletics #TrackAndField #WorldAthletics pic.twitter.com/WGVly5JRhE— Zebulon R. Sion (@CoachSion) August 2, 2020
Doha World Championships
Catchup: Molly and Alysia talk as Ro takes maternity leave, welcome baby Ruari!
Alysia’s August-did it happen if itâs not on IG?
Sheâs doing analyst work for NBC Diamond League-yay for races coming back!
Molly’s micro meet and upcoming 5000m
Intro to Val!
-Val’s start in Discus
She began in other sports-soccer, full time dance , track and field other events
Lured to throws by spaghetti
Wanted to compete on a college team and thatâs why she narrowed focused on discus
-Stanford years-everyone is good on that team, new pressures
6-How dance helps disc
-mental side of being an athlete during this pandemic time: from wanting to give up and go home to having the biggest throw of her life
Did she see it coming? 70 meters is a big barrier
Pandemic meet:
Happy to even be competing, had been focusing on getting stronger in weight room
-Volunteering at University of Texas, whats her day look like , training during covid shutdowns
Coach is Zeb Sion
– nugget of insight during pandemic: âIt forced me to figure out what I truly need-pretty much all medical things closed in terms of getting physio and getting adjusted, and it forced me to shrink my priorities. That was actually great because I didn’t realize all the things I was trying to factor into my training that had become a distraction a little bit, that I think maybe that was one of the silver linings that came out of it.
– business and finances of track and field, how throwers support themselves, her sponsors (Oiselle and NYAC), and the importance of prize money, USATF funding and grants especially for field events
– why the field events arenât marketed as well and how it could be better connected to the audience
Discus is athletic-training includes partial movement,full throws,olympic lifts, cross training sprints/biking/swimming
Fun facts may help (ex. javelin weighs as much as guinea pig)
28:30-what the competition is like-do you chat, interact? Stay in the zone?
– Val’s story:
Sports is such an empowering thing-I feel so lucky that I found a community and a sport and a sense of purpose with my body, especially as a female, and in an event that I didn’t know was possible.”
