What's it like running for them? Good culture? How's the training set up? Lots of trails I'm sure? Any all Americans? Walk on standards? I'm wondering for my friend. ( men's team ) thanks!
What's it like running for them? Good culture? How's the training set up? Lots of trails I'm sure? Any all Americans? Walk on standards? I'm wondering for my friend. ( men's team ) thanks!
Do you mean Eastern Kentucky (The Colonels, in Richmond), or Western Kentucky (The Hilltoppers, in Bowling Green). I ask b/c of your handle.
EKY and WKU are both comprised totally for foreigners.
If you want a poor education and don't want to speak English to your teammates, then either of these may be for you (WHO would want to attend University in Kentucky?).
I meant Eastern Kentucky, sorry. We're not from around that area, or have any friends running for schools in that conference so we know little about the university.
EKU is a team that puts all of its scholarships into distance runners, although mostly invested in foreign athletes, leaving very little to be given to American athletes. Not that they are not a good program. Erdman has been there a long time and has had success getting to Nationals a handful of times in cross country and has had a number of National qualifiers in track (one was 3rd place in the Steeple last year?). It depends on what is important to you, but I would imagine if you can hack the training intensity, one would likely have not choice but to improve. Richmond is a nice enough town too from what I remember.
Just what I know from having run in the conference a while back, I guess things could have changed.
thank you!
While we are on the topic of Eastern Kentucky. The distance job was posted and open just before Christmas. I applied for it and have heard nothing about it. Was it filled and by whom?
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I'm an American who had a scholarship to run for Erdmann at EKU. Yes it is heavy foreign distance based, but I loved that. It added a different dynamic and I loved getting to spend time with people from different backgrounds than my own. Definitely broaden my horizons.
The University is nice. Classes didn't particularly challenge me all that much, but I got hired right out of school using my degree, as well instilled a thirst for lifelong learning, so isn't that what matters in regards to academics.
When I was healthy, I ran great and improved a ton. When I wasn't healthy, yikes, things got bad. One downside is training is kind of one size fits all.
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