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NORTHWEST COLLEGE AND
BARLEYLIFE
 When my son Rusty
who is a long distance runner went to Northwest College in the Seattle
area, the coach, Bill Taylor and his wife Tabetha, who we had never met,
graciously invited me to stay with them when we visited the college.
During that weekend they commented about my nutrition regimen and esp. my
green barley powder. We talked quite a bit about nutrition and how it
helps athletes, as well as all of us. Bill was very interested and within
a short time he ordered a couple of jars, and he and his wife started on
our product. Bill noticed right away an increase in energy and was very
excited about it.
During that year Rusty stayed consistent on his barley powder and he began
to share it with one of the other men on the track team who was his
roommate. Jake liked the results so well that he wanted to purchase some.
This made me think about asking my Mom to supply the team with BarleyLife
as she does for the Northwest Nazarene University BB team. We talked it
over and she agreed to supply them for the next year.
When I approached Coach Bill about this he was very supportive. In fact he
grabbed one of the first jars for himself. I received an email from him
right away which said, “I’m so excited for the girls to be able to improve
their nutrition, energy, and performance with this. I just need to make
sure they are consistent.”
He said he started on Saturday and by Tuesday, he noticed a significant
increase in energy. When he switched to BarleyLife this year, he really
liked the change in taste. He felt it was a big improvement. Well, Rusty
had a very successful career at Northwest taking many top Conference
honors, placing 7 & 8th respectively in his two years at Nationals in the
3000 meter steeplechase, and being named NAIA All American Scholar
Athlete.
During the three years that we have been involved with Northwest College,
the women’s teams have consistently improved. In April Rusty had
graduated, but he and I went together to a track meet at Willamette in
Salem, Oregon. I brought along 6 jars of BarleyLife to give to the girls.
The coach was very happy, and when I mentioned it to one of the girls, her
eyes lit up and she said,”yum!”
The women have had their best year ever, winning the national title in
Cross Country for the NAIA. This means they had to have 5 of their 7 team
members place very high in the national race. They also had a tremendous
track season, placing one National Champion who won the first ever women’s
3000m steeplechase, and set a national record, and they placed 5 All
Americans.
When I asked the coach to comment on the effects he saw on the team with
BarleyLife, he was very complimentary. He has spent a lot of time studying
the dynamics of nutrition and peak athletic performance, and he really
believes in what BarleyLife has to offer his athletes.
He noticed a big improvement in the girls who were consistent. They had
more energy, were stronger, and stayed healthier throughout the season. He
says, “Over time you get better results, a week or two weeks or even
longer. It helps you recover quicker. It’s real and you feel it.”
“A couple weeks in you think ‘You know what, I have a lot more energy. I
think I feel better.’ You look back over the last couple of weeks… you may
not have noticed it right away, but it’s big when you add it up.”
“Even if it only helps the athlete to improve a second– at Nationals
everything is so close, a second can be the difference between 2nd or 5th
place, as it was in once race this year. It can make all the difference,
as it obviously it helped these girls.”
He feels that if a consistent use of something like BarleyLife helps you
all season, helps you train better, you gain something each week, not just
at a performance. All the impact is hard to judge how big it is on a
national title, but he feels confident that it did have an impact on his
team.
We have something here in BarleyLife that can have a tremendous effect on
athletes as we know from Debbie Lawrence and the other endurance athletes.
All the coaches that my Mom and I have worked with really believe in this
type of nutrition (whole food) for their athletes. So I just want to
encourage you to share BarleyLife with the people around you, and be open
for the opportunities God puts in front of you. Who knows, it may just
help to win a National Championship.
Cathy McCrea
Meridian Idaho
208-888-3714
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