Chuck Dugue knew what Anna Hall could do before she did.

At the Great Southwest Classic in 2018, Hall’s club coach was with her in Albuquerque as the 17-year-old Valor Christian senior-to-be shattered the high school national record in the heptathlon. After Hall set a personal best in the long jump by nearly a foot, Dugue’s job was done, even with two events remaining.

So the hands-on coach, whose pulse is typically racing during meets, went and sat in the bleachers.

“I walked up into the stands and just sat back and relaxed,” Dugue recalled. “(Anna’s dad) David came up to me and was like, ‘Uh, why aren’t you down on the track cheering and coaching?’ I go, ‘She’s got this , just watch. She doesn’t need me anymore.'”

Hall went on to PR in the javelin and dominated the 800 meters en

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