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THREE RIVERS: JR. COLLEGE.
Every team including the girl’s teams, lift all year round. even lift hard during the season. program of the BFS Core Lifts, Auxiliary y training and Plyometric Box Jumping. Jim Brown, cian, works with and has made an impact on the Three Rivers program. serv Thomas Brundage ATC-C.S.C.S. s the Three Rivers trainer and strength coach. Coach more wins. He states, “We all do basically the same program. The coaches and players have all responded quite favorably. A lot of our women athletes have never lifted before but they have really got into it with a great attitude.
Guard Latrell Sprewell: From Three Rivers, First Round Draft Choice in 1992 By Golden State. Head Basketball Coach/ Athletic Director Gene Bess stated, “It would be hard to think of anybody else having a better year than we just had.” Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri won an amazing 73 percent of its contests with an overall record of 158-59. Including all volleyball, softball and baseball. Three Rivers home two conference titles, two sub-region titles and two region titles. But to top this off was the national Junior basketball. Coach Bess and team had a 35-3 record while laying claim to being the best out of all of our nation’s junior colleges.
42 Women’s Basketball Players Robyn Pekarek Squatting and Spotter Monica Williams.
Our baseball team does a team workout and we lift three days per week all year round. I’ve coached here at Brian Blackburn Starter on National Championship Basketball Team Three Rivers for eleven years and we've had a lifting program all of those eleven years. firm believer that weight training will enhance you as long as it’s done properly. I feel you must stretch afterwards and do your lifts with a full range of motion. I feel it can make good players better. Coach Brundage, my assistant and myself are usually there for all workouts. I just feel that if its worth doing, its worth out time to be there.
Dave Jarvis: Three Rivers Baseball Coach Editor’s Note: Coach Jarvis has been the head coach for 8 years and has compiled a 290-138 record including two regional, one conference, three sub-regional and two runner-up Central district championships. Our women volleyball and basketball players workout on a total strength and conditioning program two to three days per week. We do it all year round. It’s made a vast improvement in our play and injuries. We only had two minor injuries last year. Both athletes were back in two weeks or less. Our improvement has been unbelievable. Our girls just get right in there and do it. They know they're getting stronger.
Their jumping ability and side-to side movement improved. We've now been on the BFS program for two years.
Jack Childress: Three Rivers Women’s Basketball Brian Blackburn Doing Lunges. He Signed with Arkansas State. Strength Coach-Trainer Thomas Brundage Spotting.
Coach Gene Bess started 35 years ago with a weight program for his athletes. “It was Taboo back then but we even did Cleans,” remembered Bess. “Joe Uhis was my coach and he was a pioneer. He told me that the stronger you get, the quicker you'll be.”
As a result, Coach Bess’ teams began training in 1957. “I always thought that it’d give me an edge,” stated Bess. “I even had my girls volleyball team lifting!” Coach Bess has been at Three Rivers for 25 years and has never had a losing season. His career record is 634 wins with only 161 losses. “I’ve seen great improvement. We lift the day before a “We've had a very positive response to the strength and conditioning program. When we first started three of four years ago, some of the girls were afraid of getting “muscled up”. However, today they’ve all improved body wise and performance wise. They enjoy it and I think we’ve even improved academically. game-maybea little different but we lift.
We also lift Monday, Wednesday I've seen our girls improve in running bases, hitting and throwing. I can really tell and Friday all year long. The important thing is that we want to be at our strongest at playoff time,” asserted Bess. Finally, when asked about hurting a player’s touch Coach Bess simply compare them to my freshman, most of whom have never weight trained before. When they said, “I just tell people about Danny Foster. He was my best player, my train, their wrist action is faster and, of course, best shooter and my best lifter.” we have cut down on injuries.” Ron Rains: Three Rivers Softball Coach
From BFS Magazine — Winter 1992. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
