Jim Bush

Jim Bush 2011

Jim Bush (born September 15, 1926 in Cleveland , Ohio - † July 10, 2017 ) was an American athletics coach.

Career

After graduating from high school he enlisted in 1944 volunteered for the US Navy Air Corps ( Naval Air ) and was even used in the Second World War in Southeast Asia. From 1946 he attended Bakersfield Community College, from which he graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in 1948. He then received a scholarship for athletics ( hurdles ) from the renowned University of California, Berkeley . With a bachelor's degree in sports science (1951), he began to work as an assistant coach at Berkeley High School ; as a result, he was active as a track and field trainer only in California, especially southern California for 53 years. The following year he was then at Fullerton High School as a physical education teacher and head coach, before he was only coach from 1959 at Fullerton Junior College for the first time. With Fullerton JC he had probably the most successful American junior college team of all time, before he took over the team of Occidental College in 1961 . In the fall of 1964, he finally became head coach of UCLA , which he remained until 1984. In the comparative matches he had 152 wins and 21 defeats, a quota that was never reached again. He was here seven times American team champion and trained 30 Olympians. He took early retirement from UCLA after having had an operation on his neck. After successful rehabilitation, he was from 1988 to 1989 assistant coach at UCLA's hereditary enemy , the University of Southern California , from 1990 to 1994 he was head coach of USC. Here he also had to train women for the first time. Because of sexist remarks, however, he was released from his duties as a women's trainer in 1992. He also worked as a sprint coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers , Los Angeles Kings , Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Raiders (with whom he won the Super Bowl in 1984) and also trained individual professional athletes individually.

In 1979 he was the head coach of the American team at the Pan American Games . He was American Athletics Coach of the Year twice, was inducted into the 1987 National Track and Field Hall of Fame , the United States Track Coaches Association Halls of Fame, and the UCLA Hall of Fame , and was President of American Athletics Coaches in 1972-73. Hardly any other coach had shaped the athletics of southern California as much as Jim Bush. The Southern California Championships are named after him.

He trained u. a. Wayne Collett , Benny Brown , Greg Foster , Ron Copeland , Willie Banks , John Brenner, Quincy Watts , Arnd Krüger , Don Domansky , John Smith (track and field athlete) , threw Dwight Stones (who was already world record holder in high jump ) out of the team because he only wanted to participate in three competitions a year.

training

Jim Bush was the expert for hurdles and sprints up to 800 m. In contrast to the common training theory of the time, Bush regularly used his runners several times in competition. Sprinters having to make four to five starts within 150 minutes (100 m, 200 m, 400 m, one or both relays) was not unusual. The high anaerobic performance was trained in the preparation period through uphill runs (up to 400 m in length) and prepared through extensive strength training.

literature

• Bush, Jim: Inside Track. Chicago: Regnery 1974
• Bush, Jim: Dynamic track and field . Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1978

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/la-sp-jim-bush-dies-20170710-story.html
2. ↑ http://fullertoncollegecentennial.com/staff-stories/jim-bush.html
3. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/jim-bush
4. ↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ucla/sports/m-track/auto_pdf/06mg-54-80.pdf