Glen Mills

[Assasin]

I remember there was a wicked class three runner name Kevin Moore who was plagued with injury, he and a few other that were injured that Mills and the talk was that Glen Mills was a coach who mash up ahtlete.

Good to see the man redeem himself and show that he is world class.
He is taking good care of his charge and not over racing him or anything like that.

[Me]

Many of our world class coaches have "mashed up" athletes. Competition make some people do certain things. However, most have done more good than bad.

[Karl]

I remember there was a wicked class three runner name Kevin Moore who was plagued with injury, he and a few other that were injured that Mills and the talk was that Glen Mills was a coach who mash up ahtlete.

Good to see the man redeem himself and show that he is world class.
He is taking good care of his charge and not over racing him or anything like that.

Kevin Moore was a Camperdown athlete?
...and did Glen have many other athletes who proved selves to be top drawer?

[Gamma]

kevin moore...campionite.

[Historian]

Many of our world class coaches have "mashed up" athletes. Competition make some people do certain things. However, most have done more good than bad.

I fully agree with you on what you posted above, Me.

Boys and Girls Champs, which is the focus of the junior track and field program and the place where coaches make their names, has been the biggest single factor influencing poor decision making by coaches!

I'm sure we've all noticed the relatively few junior stars whose success has translated to the senior levels! Certainly people like Veronica Campbell, Kerron Stewart, Sherone Simpson and Usain Bolt are among the small minority of teen stars who have become adult track stars!

Conversely, some of our greatest track and field success stories (Asafa Powell, Deon Hemmings, Roxbert Martin, etc.) were never child/teen stars on the Boys and Girls Champs circuit!

[Islandman]

There were some of Mills charges that tended to be injury-prone,people like Moore, Garfield Campbell and Cary Johnson, but the charge against Mills was more that his athletes were not tough enough, rather than he mashed them due to overwork like the athletes from the contending schools sometimes were.

Mills certainly did not overwork his athletes at Champs.
I remember athletes like Carey Johnson running only the 400m at Champs when he could clearly have been a contender in the 200m.

[Assasin]

Yes he was from Campion but was trained by Glen Mills. His Mom also worked at JBC.

[Assasin]

thanks for that info Iman.
You know how some Jamaicans stay. They were calling the man "mash up artist".

Leroy Reid I think was also injury prone.

[Sensi]

Kevin Moore attended Campion.

[Mosiah]

What was Kevin Moore's claim to fame? Why do we still talk about him 20 years later?

[Islandman]

Uptown sprinter. Rare specimen indeed!

He was fast though. I remember the first time I saw him was anchoring a Class 3 relay team at Gibson, coming from the back of the pack to win the heat. Nobody could figure out which school it was!

[Assasin]

I care not if uptown sprinter. I was at Gibson when I saw him. Didn't know anything about him but I have never seen a better relay leg in my life. I then migrated shortly after and wonder what ever happen to this talent. I constantly heard that he was never the same again and many blamed Glen Mills for this. Some Track and field "experts" maybe unfairly labelled John Mills and it is good to see him redeem himself in such a way.

The topic was not really about Kevin Moore.

[Mosiah]

Oh, I guess some must have loved the uptown factor. He never had a record at Champs, and that's why I was wondering what's the big deal.

[Sir X]

Kevin Moore if remember correctly was a Prep school phenom (Bolt Like), i think he attended Ardenne prep , then Campion High and much was expected from him at Boys champs , I think he did well one year and that was it .

[Mosiah]

Still did not have a Class 3 record.