Technique and Methods to Improve Block Starts and Acceleration for Your Sprinters, Hurdles, and Jumpers

Kebba Tolbert is in his tenth season at Harvard where he is the associate head coach and coaches the women’s sprints/hurdles, horizontal jump, and heptathlon. Tolbert has helped guide the team to 9 Ivy League team titles, and 5 runner-up finishes, while tallying several regional coach of the year honors. In all, he has helped athletes at Harvard to school records, Ivy records, and All-American honors in the sprints, hurdles, jumps, and multis. Coach Tolbert has coached five athletes to the World Championships and several others to national teams. In all he’s helped athletes earn over 100 collegiate All-American Awards. Tolbert is a long-time instructor with the USTFCCCA Coaches Academy where he teaches and helps develop curriculum. A graduate of Colby College where he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy, Tolbert earned his Master of Arts degree in exercise science in 1996 from Smith.