You are a high school track & field coach and you have a young female athlete who is running a competitive mile pace (5:20). This would make her competitive at the state and national level. You want to help this athlete to maintain and even increase her competitive potential. What would you do?

By ensuring she is giving speed endurance training

Explanation:

Speed endurance training would be the most ideal in helping an athlete to maintain and even increase her competitive potential.

The speed endurance training would help the athlete maintain and attain a high speed for a longer duration of time.

This would make the athlete get used to running an improved time for much longer distances.