Project Triple Jump returns to Sioux Falls with
Sanford Sports Science Institute for annual clinic
(7/24/21 update)
The NSAF is excited to announce the return of Project Triple Jump to the Sioux Falls, S.D. for our late-summer clinic with Sanford Sports Science Institute (SSSI). This is the 4th annual clinic we have held with our partners from SSSI, offering fantasic facilities to train outdoors (Howard Wood Field), indoors (Sanford Fieldhouse) and to hold classroom sessions (Sanford Pentagon).
We are extremely grateful to SSSI for helping support our Podium Projects. The Project Triple Jump clinic will be held cocurrently with the NSAF's Project Javelin clinic, as it has been since SSSI became partners with the NSAF in 2017. We hope you'll join us to kick off the 2021-22 season.
SIOUX FALLS Clinic ENTRY INFORMATION
The clinic is open to all athletes, coaches and interested parties. The entry fee for the full weekend is $195 (with a 20 percent discount to groups of 5 or more). To get the group discount, you must register as a group. We are also offering Saturday-only (Aug. 7) registration for a fee of $95. You can register HERE at AthleticNET (https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/436934/register).
SIOUX FALLS Clinic VENUE INFORMATION
Outdoor jumping and training:
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Howard Wood Field
2000 W. Russell St.
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
Indoor training and classroom sessions:
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Sanford Sports Complex
(Sanford Fieldhouse and Sanford Pentagon)
2210 W. Pentagon Place
Sioux Falls, SD 57107
SIOUX FALLS Clinic HOTEL INFORMATION
Sioux Falls Airport Fairfield Inn & Suites
4035 North Bobhalla Drive
Sioux Falls, SD 57107
605-339-8997
Please check back for dedicated NSAF registration link and rates.
SIOUX FALLS Clinic SCHEDULE of EVENTS
Thursday, August 5
- 7:45 pm Introductory Meeting: (Sanford Pentagon)
Friday, August 6
- 8:45 am to 9:40 am: (Sanford Pentagon) Classroom session with Coach Macka L. Jones
- 10:00 am to 11:30 am: (Howard Wood Field) Training Session: Coaches Kenny Harrison and Macka Jones
- Noon - 1:00 pm: Lunch break
- 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm: (Sanford Pentagon) Classroom session with Dr. Margaret Ottley:
- 2:15 pm to 2:45 pm: Afternoon break
- 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm: (Sanford Field House) Training Session: Coach Kenny Harrison
- 7:30 pm-8:30 pm: (Sanford Pentagon) Session with Sports Performance Psychologist, Dr. Margaret Ottley
Saturday, August 7
- 9:00am to 11:30pm (Howard WoodF ield) Training with Coach Kenny Harrison and Coach Macka L. Jones
- Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch break
- 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm (Sanford Pentagon) Classroom session with Coach Macka L. Jones
- 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm (Sanford Field House) Training Session with Coach Kenny Harrison
- 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm (Sanford Pentagon) Classroom Session with Coach Kenny Harrison
- 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm Q&A/ Journal Time with Triple Jump coaches
- 6:00pm to 7:00pm: (Sanford Pentagon Conference room) Presentation by Sports Performance Psychologist, Dr. Margaret Ottley- Sanford Pentagon
- 11:00pm Lights out.
Sunday, August 8
- 8:30am to 10:00am: (Sanford Pentagon Wooden Film Room) Video Review session with Project Triple Jump Coaches and Closing Comments
SIOUX FALLS Clinic COACHING STAFF
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Macka L. Jones is the NSAF’s Project Triple Jump Coordinator. He has been coaching track and field for more than 15 years and is IAAF Level V Certified in the Jumps and USATF Level II certified in the sprints, hurdles, jumps, and endurance events. He also holds a technical coaching certification from the USTFCCCA. A former All Conference Triple Jumper at the University of Texas at El Paso, Jones has dedicated himself to the study and discipline of the jumping events. Prior to working with NSAF he was the head coach of a championship track and field and cross country team at El Dorado High School in El Paso, TX and co-founder of the Texas Heat Track Club, a team that has produced several national champions in the long and triple jump such as Felix Obi (who went on to Baylor University), Felicienne Axel, and most recently Keandre Bates who represented the US at the 2013 World Youth Championships and won multiple NCAA titles at U. of Florida. -
Kenny Harrison is the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Triple Jump Gold Medalist, winning with a 59-foot, 4-1/2 inch (18.09m) leap that is still the Olympic record going into the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. That jump was an American record for 19 years and made him history’s #2 jumper ever at the time. Entering 2020, he still is the #3 American all-time and #4 in world history. Harrison captured his first international championship triple jump Gold at the 1991 IAAF Worlds, but his chances of competing in the 1992 Olympics were ruined when he tore the cartilage in his knee.After recovering from surgery, and winning a gold medal at the 1994 Moscow Goodwill Games, Harrison bounded back for that historic ’96 Olympic Gold – also notable for the fact that the winning jump is the longest ever with a negative wind reading. He was inducted into the USATF Hall of Fame in 2013.
Harrison attended college at Kansas State University from 1984-88, where he captured three NCAA individual titles – the ’86 indoor long jump and outdoor triple jump, plus the ’88 indoor TJ – the most in school history. He was a 3-time NCAA runner-up, 11-time All-American and 16-time Big 8 champion – even including a 4x4 gold in addition to his horizontal jump titles. He still holds school records in indoor long jump (26' 9.75") and outdoor long and triple jump (26' 11.5" and 56'0", respectively. Harrison is the first K-State track & field athlete to be inducted into the Kansas Sports Athletic Hall of Fame.
Harrison went to Brookfield Central HS in Wisconsin, where he competed in basketball and track. He holds schools records in the triple jump, long jump and high jump. His triple jump of 52 feet, 4.5 inches at the 1983 Golden West Invitational ranked him the #2 prep in the nation, and still stands as the Wisconsin all-time prep best by more than 2 feet. That mark also ranks on the top 10 list for the Golden West Invitational. Harrison also held the Wisconsin state meet triple jump record of 48' 6.25" for 22 years, from 1983 to 2005. In the other jumps, Harrison had a personal best in the long jump of 23 feet 4 inches, which ranks among the top 35 in Wisconsin high school track & field history, and a high jump of 6 feet 7 inches.
- Dr. Margaret Ottley is a full professor of sport & exercise psychology and exercises science at West Chester University (WCU), PA. Dr. Ottley is a Certified Sport Psychology Consultant with the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). She is the founder of SANKO-FA HP (HyPower Performance) LLC, Sport & Performance Psychology. Her major accomplishments as a sport psychology consultant were serving two countries at three Olympic Games - London 2012 and Athens 2004 with Trinidad & Tobago Olympic Committee and the Beijing Olympics 2008 with USA Track & Field (USATF). She was the keynote speaker at USATF's Elite Athletes Retreat 2015 which focused on athletes' preparation for Rio Olympics 2016.
Bahamian Tradition of Triple Jump Excellence
More information on the Triple Jump Tradition of the Bahamas can be found HERE.
OUR GOALS
The ongoing goal of this project is to identify emerging elite youth and junior triple jump talent and provide them with the best technical and training methods available, and to maximize their development to international level jumpers in order represent the United States in Olympic/World Championship events.
State-of-the-art coaching and training instruction is available to any coaches and athletes who attend the camps, in addition to the selected and sponsored throwers in this program. In a first-of-its-kind program in the U.S., Project Triple Jump brings the top U.S. and Bahamanian triple jump coaches together to provide a level of understanding and education about triple jump technique and training never before available in the U.S.
The clinic is open to any interested coaches and athletes for observation and interaction with our coaching staff. Coaches and athletes are encouraged to film, ask questions and generally be involved so they can gain maximum benefit from the Project.
NOTE TO COLLEGIATE COACHES
We welcome all NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA College coaches to attend our clinics.
