Kerley’s path to greatness with coach Alleyne Francique

Alleyne Francique, coach of Taylor’s own superstar runner Fred Kerley, had an interview earlier this month with Sheila Vieira of Olympics.com and discussed training techniques that Kerley implements to get him to the next level.

Francique, a two-time indoor world champion who also placed fourth in the 400meter at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, comes from the island of Grenada in the Caribbean which only has a population of 124,000 people.

“I was the youngest and the only black person on the staff, so a lot of them came to me,” Francique said of coaching. “There’s a trust factor that they felt like they could tell me anything.”