The 5th Man | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

For 50 years, Paul Limmer was a world class track coach at Long Island's Mepham High School. He holds NY State's record  | dG1fRlhOeVl4TXlpZ28

Transcript

00:00 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]

00:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:05 - The fifth man is your most important person.

00:10 In cross country--

00:11 - It's the top five men that determines the scoring.

00:15 - You can't win anything without your fifth man.

00:19 And that's why you need a team.

00:21 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:24 - I think Coach's legacy is the hundreds of kids

00:29 he impacted.

00:31 How many people can you say, oh, this man changed my life?

00:35 - I could convince kids to do things that other coaches

00:37 couldn't have them do.

00:39 - He set world age class records.

00:42 - We did not know what it was like to lose a track meet.

00:46 - This was team running and team building.

00:50 - We trained exactly like the boys,

00:52 but I was a developing girl.

00:54 I had an emotional break, and I lost my ability to run.

00:59 - These things took a toll on me.

01:01 - There were rumors they're going to cancel the season.

01:04 - We had to decide what we were going to do as a team.

01:09 - Run.

01:11 That's what we're going to do.

01:13 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:16 - Even if we were the worst athlete on the team,

01:20 we were part of that team.

01:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:24 - It's not just about what happens on the track.

01:27 It's everything in between that makes that possible.

01:31 - Coach passed on the legacy of lifting all.

01:35 He saw me.

01:36 - The whole concept of the fifth man

01:38 involves everyone has value.

01:41 Everyone can contribute.

01:44 That's how you develop a fifth man.

01:46 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:49 (dramatic music)