Indoor track: building better athletes

For head indoor track coach Dan Hansen, the upcoming season isn’t about winning a state championship.

Hansen said he wants the team to improve on its performance last year at State, when the Wolves scored 16 points at the competition. However, he wants to help give the competitors an edge in whichever sport they later participate in.

“Our goal is to get better,” Hansen said. “We’re just trying to build better overall athletes.”

Indoor track is often seen as an activity that prepares and feeds athletes into spring track and field. Hansen also admits some of the athletes he sees go into other sp...