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DyeStat Discussions - EP209 - Sage Watson

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DyeStat.com   Jan 21st 2021, 11:34pm
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Canadian Olympian and Nike professional athlete Sage Watson, a national indoor and outdoor record holder, along with an NCAA 400-meter hurdles champion and indoor 500-meter collegiate record holder during her career at Arizona, as well as the reigning Pan American gold medalist, joins DyeStat editor Erik Boal to discuss her participation Jan. 24 in the 300 meters in the first indoor American Track League event at Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark. Watson expresses her gratitude to agent and meet organizer Paul Doyle for not only organizing the series of four Sunday meets in Arkansas, but also for the meets being showcased on the ESPN family of networks. She reminisces about her last indoor 300 race in 2018 at the NYRR Millrose Games, where Watson set the Canadian record by running 37.08, along with her last appearance at Randal Tyson Track Center at the 2015 NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships, when she was still competing for Florida State, before transferring to Arizona. Watson shares how significant it is for track and field to be broadcast during the pandemic, especially with so much uncertainty surrounding events for professional athletes along the journey to what she hopes is the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer. She reflects on the 400 hurdle races she was able to run in Hungary and Sweden in August, and how grateful she was to be one of the few Canadian athletes to have the chance to compete in Europe during the summer. Watson shares how meaningful it was to go through an entire year healthy for the first time in her professional career, and how much she benefited from consistent training with coach Fred Harvey and American athletes Georganne Moline and Bobby Grant in Tucson. She also reveals how much strength and endurance were gained during the fall, and how Watson hopes it will translate to more stamina in the latter stages of the 400 hurdles, with her desire to not only lower her own national record of 54.32, but to run under 54 seconds for the first time in her career.  Watson also looks back at how valuable it was to spend time last year on the family ranch in Alberta with her brother and parents, especially during calving season.



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