The GCS track team is at the start line, ready to sprint to victory for the 2025 season.  With the new addition of Coach Collin Taylor, GCS varsity track expects changes in practice schedules, training style, and the team as a whole. 

“I have coached track before in Arkansas at the last school that I worked at,” Coach Taylor said.  With Taylor’s experience coaching track, he feels that practice should be reduced to only two days a week to give the best results and avoid injury. 

 “We practice two days a week, on B-Days, from 3:00 to 4:30,” junior Andrea Solomon said, “during school if you are already in a fourth block for sports, and after school if you aren’t.” 

Solomon is a 100-meter runner and a third-year track veteran.  

“Emma Cate Fontenot made me want to rejoin the team because we knew we had to step up into a leadership role as upperclassmen,” Solomon said. 

Coach Taylor explained how he ended up at Goodpasture.

“Coach Turner, the head football coach here, was the head coach that I worked with at my last high school in Arkansas, then he took this job and I followed him up here,” Coach Taylor said.

Coach Taylor has set several goals for the season.

“My goals for the season are one: to make them enjoy it, and two: hopefully compete in our track meets,” Coach Taylor said.