Episode 477: Chris Turner – High School Coach Series; Lincoln High School
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a part of our high school coaching series. For the next four weeks we’ll be bringing on various high school coaches about the development of young athletes and the importance of those relationships.
I am excited to bring one of my friends, Chris Turner, on the show today. I met Chris through the Donna Foundation, which helps people that are walking through a breast cancer diagnosis. Chris is on the board of the Donna Foundation. He is also on the board for Girls on the Run in Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Symphony Board. He volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Still I Run. He has run four out of the size major marathons. He is a Run Disney Galloway Pacer. He works for AARP in Florida doing community outreach. He is the assistant coach for Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida.
What we talked about:
5:05- Chris’ involvement with the Donna Foundation
7:10- How Chris became a high school coach
12:20- Bringing his high school athletes to run the Donna Half Marathon
18:00- Chris’ mental health journey
24:50- Speaking about mental health as a male
27:50- Chris’ passion for volunteering and working with nonprofits
30:40- Fatherhood
34:45- The culture of the high school team that he coaches
36:00- Transitioning out of coaching
38:20- What drew him to coaching high school
42:30- End of podcast questions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host Lindsay, so excited to bring you an extra series. |
| 0:27.8 | So for the next four weeks, including this week, we are bringing on high school coaches, |
| 0:34.4 | cross-country and track coaches. We've done coaching series in the past with |
| 0:39.2 | college and professional coaches and I thought let's start with the high school coaches. |
| 0:44.5 | So much development happens there and that relationship is so important. |
| 0:48.7 | As you may have heard, Brian Rosetti, the founder of V.O.2 talk about in last weeks, |
| 0:54.4 | Tuesday episode and today I'm excited to bring my friend Chris Turner on the show. |
| 1:00.4 | I met Chris through the Donna Foundation. The Donna Foundation is an organization that |
| 1:06.0 | helps people that who are walking through a breast cancer diagnosis both financially and through |
| 1:11.2 | their care line. They are doing amazing work and if you've heard me talk about the Donna Marathon |
| 1:16.4 | weekend, that all goes hand in hand with the Donna Foundation. So anyway, Chris is on the board |
| 1:22.5 | of the Donna Foundation. He's also on the girls on the run board in Tallahassee |
| 1:27.6 | and the Tallahassee Symphony Board. He volunteers with big brothers, big sisters. |
| 1:32.2 | Still, I run. He has run four out of the six major marathons. He's just missing Tokyo in Berlin. |
| 1:39.9 | He's a run Disney Galloway Pacer, a recovering sprinter taking a break from triathlon. |
| 1:46.8 | Might be into the marathon these days. He works for AARP in Florida, doing community outreach |
| 1:53.5 | and why we are talking to him today. He is the assistant coach at Lincoln High School for the |
| 1:58.8 | cross country team in Tallahassee, Florida. And there's a lot that we cover in this episode and |
| 2:04.6 | I'm so excited to bring Chris on as one of our first high school coaches in this series. |
| 2:10.4 | You might have also listened to and if you haven't, I highly recommend going back and listening to |
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