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An exhausted Sandy Blakeslee after running in the 1985 Southwest Conference Championships. One Sunday this past December, Texas women’s cross country assistant coach PattiSue Plumer settled in at her dining room table in downtown Austin to Zoom with her athletes. The table was new, purchased precisely for this purpose—virtual coaching—and so was the apartment. She had recently moved to one of the freshly vacated, more spacious lower-level units within her complex to avoid catching COVID-19 on her daily elevator ride down from the 26th floor. Plumer always arrived early to these weekly m...

UTC Indoor Track And Field Competes At SoCon Championships Saturday, February 27, 2021 The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s indoor track and field team had a good day at the Southern Conference Championships with multiple personal records and an advance to the 800 meter final on Sunday by Emmy Davis at the VMI Corps Physical Training Facility. “Today was a good day for the Mocs,” Chattanooga head coach Andy Meyer said. “Amost everyone had a PR or season-best. Freshman Emmy Davis stayed in perfect position throughout the 800 meter and had a fantastic kick in t...

Another woke to horses and another argued about rugby.  All were 3rd Special Forces Group soldiers killed in action and remembered this month.  On Friday, the names and stories of 11 soldiers who were part of the 3rd Special Forces Group were remembered during physical training between flutter kicks, air squats and pushups.  The monthly Remembrance PT was started about five years ago by previous group commander Col. Bob Wilson to honor the unit’s soldiers killed in action during the Global War on Terror, said Col. Jason Johnston, current commander.  “This is so that no one forgets �...

Personal training is a $4 billion industry. Here’s how veterans are cashing in (and you can too) Harm Venhuizen keyboard_arrow_down Although the pandemic has temporarily stopped FitOps from training veterans to become personal trainers, the organization has created opportunities for its graduates by partnering with the accountability platform Verb. (Photo courtesy FitOps) When former Army specialist Matt Hesse founded FitOps in 2016, he saw the organization as a way to give veterans a purpose outside the military. Under its initial design, students would undergo three weeks of intense tr...

Lt Gen SR Ghosh (Retd) In August 2005, shortly before my assignment ended in the embassy at Washington DC, I received a call from a retired Army Colonel in Vancouver who said he was the president of the British Columbia Indian Ex-Servicemen Society. He complained that Military Attaches seldom, if ever, visited them, and that I must do so before I returned to India. Till that time, I wasn’t even aware that there was such an organisation of Indian veterans in Canada. Intrigued, I promised I would do so, but the Colonel insisted that I visit them on September 12. Thus, a month later, my wife a...