Episode 553: Team New Balance Boston’s Mark Coogan and Daughter Katrina Coogan (Parent-Athlete Series Episode 3)
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SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the third episode of our Parent Athlete series! Today, I’m thrilled to have Mark and Katrina Coogan on the podcast. Mark is the head coach of Team New Balance Boston, and his daughter, Katrina, is a standout runner on the team. This summer, she competed in the Olympic trials for the 10,000 meters and recently won a half marathon in her off season!
Katrina also served as the team captain for track and cross country at Georgetown University. In this episode, we dive into raising hardworking kids and how to foster a healthy relationship with sports, even in a competitive environment. We’ll hear about Katrina’s experience being coached by her dad on Team New Balance Boston, which has had an incredible year with many talented athletes. They recently sent Elle Purrier-St. Pierre and Emily Mackay to the Olympics in Paris—an exciting achievement!
The team has a fantastic dynamic, and it’s clear that Mark provides outstanding leadership. If you’re interested in learning more about his approach, he published a book last year titled Personal Best Running.
Additionally, it’s worth noting that Katrina is the daughter of two Olympians, and we explore what that means for her journey. I hope you’re enjoying this series as much as I am!
What we talked about:
5:05- Nurturing your kids’ love for sports
18:00- Being coached by your dad/coaching your daughter
25:00- Katrina’s battle with injuries at the Olympic Trials
29:35- How to manage emotions in sport when you’re going all in
36:35- Instilling a hard work ethic in your kids
40:40- Proudest moments
46:40- What to look for in a coach
1:08:00- End of podcast message
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. Hey everybody welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay |
| 0:21.8 | I'm your host Lindsay. Thanks for being here today. |
| 0:24.7 | All right, this is our third episode in the Parent Athletes series and today I'm so |
| 0:31.2 | excited because Mark and Katrina Kuggen are joining the podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | Mark is the head coach for Team New Balance Boston and Katrina, his daughter runs on the team. |
| 0:42.0 | She ran at the Olympic Trials. Trina, his daughter runs on the team. |
| 0:42.8 | She ran at the Olympic trials in the 10,000 meters |
| 0:46.2 | this summer, and she actually just completed |
| 0:48.9 | a half marathon that she won this past weekend, |
| 0:52.3 | and she'll talk about that. She was. that she was the |
| 0:55.0 | was the team captain at Georgetown University |
| 0:57.7 | for track and cross country. |
| 0:59.5 | And Mark also has two other children. |
| 1:02.6 | So this episode we focus a lot on raising hard-working kids, |
| 1:07.3 | how to nurture a healthy relationship with sport with your kids, |
| 1:12.4 | even when you're really competitive and we get to hear |
| 1:14.9 | what it's like from Katrina to be on team New Balance Boston with her dad as |
| 1:19.6 | the coach. This team had an incredible year and they've got so many talented |
| 1:24.8 | athletes on the team and it was really cool to hear a little bit more about |
| 1:29.1 | what their team looks like. You know they sent Ellie Perrier St. Pierre and Emily McKai in the 1500 to the Olympics in Paris and that was |
| 1:37.9 | really exciting to see and I gotta say this team just seems to have a really well-rounded group of |
| 1:45.8 | individuals training together and it sounds like they've got an amazing leader in |
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