Spring Testing

As I mentioned in my "Goal Setting" post, we have a testing week at the end of our long hard off season  training in the weight room and doing agilities outside. The intense training finally came to an end and it was now time to test! We knew as a group that this year of testing was going to be interesting due to the fact that COVID-19 had a huge impact in our weight room abilities the past spring and summer. A lot of our athletes were trying to catch back up to where they had left off when COVID hit and ended up shutting down weight rooms all over. With that being said, it seemed that almost everyone had caught back up and even went a little more and was working towards new PR's. In the Mule's football program we have what is called a "Quad Score" for the spring testing. This is a score that combines your 40 yard dash time, seated shotput throw, hang clean lift, and your broad jump testing. It is something that Coach Svoboda came up with about 15 years ago while coaching with another University.  He uses this quad score to base the athleticism of his teams to see where we are at after the offseason and setting a goal for each individual to reach a total point score of 300+. Before the corona virus, last spring, we had set a record for the most players in UCM history to reach over 300 points on the quad test. This was a huge achievement for us but was quickly shoved under the rug when everything was shut down including our fall season. We knew that replicating that again this spring would be a tough task so we worked extremely hard and push ourselves and each other. We ended up exceeding the previous record that we had set last year by a total of five players! We are hoping that this will be able to translate to our two games that we will be playing in this spring and also carry over to the 2021 fall season