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By Dr. Greg Shepard
Published: Fall 1997

We call baseball the last frontier of strength training among men's major team sports.  The first sport to catch on to the importance of weight training and to really learn the secret was Track and Field, specifically the throwers.  They learned "the secret" in the 1960's.  A decade later football teams began learning what to do until now almost all do "the secret" more or less correctly.

Next, baseball found the importance of strength and conditioning but this took nearly another decade.  Coaches thought that weight training would screw up your touch.  Amazingly, there are still a significant number of high school coaches who still feel this way.  Please, if this is your position, get our Basketball Video.  It will change your mind.  Don't picture your players doing curls like a bodybuilder.  Picture them Power Cleaning to develop powerful rebounding potential.

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MONARCHS REMAIN KINGS
When Coach Jim Sypult took the job at Methodist College, there was no place to go but up.
By Kim Goss
Published: Spring 1998

Dont even think about inferring that the Methodist Monarchs, a Division 3 football team in North Carolina, are a bunch of delicate butterflies. The Monarchs are kings, and the lion is their mighty mascot. Those who question the teams sovereign position have only to look at the record books and the teams regal 9-1 season last year.

Of course, there was a time. In 1992 when Jim Sypult took over the position as head football coach at the college, he inherited a 2-28 record. While not a bunch of flighty insects, the team was playing more like a den of cubs than the king of beasts. A college coach for 26 years, Sypult saw his path clearly delineated. The team had only been formed in 1989, so growing pains were to be expected. After finishing his first year at 0-10, it was obvious that his team needed to grow up fast. And they did. The following season they improved to 4-6, then 5-5, 6-4, and now 9-1 with a national ranking of number 20. Although theeowa State s iLrh{KwhZKwhXQLKwh_Kwh"KwhRRKwh8KwhKwh0KwhhOKwhγKwhxSKwhh&KwhbKwhVJKwh=Kwh`KwhjKwhQJKwhPm=KwhZKwh\KwhSJKwh8=KwhXNvKwh]KwhRJKwhЁ=KwhDYKwhx^KwhhSJKwh z=KwhKwhXOVKwhXXKwhSJKwho=KwhTKwh[Kwh UJKwh=Kwh@}KwhX_KwhVJKwh(q=Kwh Kwh8RKwhXJKwh=KwhpӿKwh˿KwhTKwhzRKwhHX#KwhUcKwhtKwxx[S