Terence Hillary Albritton (January 14, 1955 – September 1, 2005) was an American

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

athlete, former

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world record holder, and coach.

Career

Albritton was born in Newport Beach, California and attended

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. He went on to the

University of Hawaii A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

and later graduated from Stanford University. He was a strength coach at the University of Hawaii from 1979 to 1985. He is regarded as a pioneer in importing the training techniques from the Soviet Union to the United States. These methods include power cleans,

plyometrics Plyometrics, also known as jump training or plyos, are exercises in which muscles exert maximum force in short intervals of time, with the goal of increasing power (speed-strength). This training focuses on learning to move from a muscle extens ...

, and other fast twitching muscle training techniques. From 1990 to 2004, Albritton was a teacher and assistant football coach at St. Anthony School in

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and was also a personal trainer on Maui for professional athletes, including

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of the

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. Albritton suffered a fatal

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in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he had retired in 2004. At the time he had been writing a screenplay about travels in the Soviet Union. He was survived by sons, Shane and Thomas Albritton, and grandson, Thomas Vaethroeder.

Shot put accomplishments

*World record: 71 ft, 8 inches (21.85m), 1976, Cooke Field,

*National shot put champion, 1976, 1977 *National shot put runner-up, 1975

References

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