Why Stanford recruits all these top girls then they don't run anymore?

Ther are more important things in life than running around in circles hoping someone notices you.

aisling cuffe should be back

.turn up wrote:

Ther are more important things in life than running around in circles hoping someone notices you.

Exactly this. Running around ovals is where it's at.

Daniel Radfish wrote:

.turn up wrote:

Ther are more important things in life than running around in circles hoping someone notices you.

Exactly this. Running around ovals is where it's at.

*Stadium

Like my counselor told me years ago, 'alls a high school 4.0 GPA, perfect SAT/ACT, with every AP class, will only get you is an apperance on the Jeopardy TV Show. To graduate from a Shanghai 25 you have to be able to think!'.

Ghetto High School wrote:

Like my counselor told me years ago, 'alls a high school 4.0 GPA, perfect SAT/ACT, with every AP class, will only get you is an apperance on the Jeopardy TV Show. To graduate from a Shanghai 25 you have to be able to think!'.

Was your high school counselor also your drug counselor? Just a hunch.

Why you no like Stanford runners? They train hard all day, you like them better they train hard all day?

Molly Mcnamara just raced at Payton Jordan

Weissenbach and Cuffe only missed 2014. Re you sure they are not just redshirting?

Add Cayla Hatton to that list.

She ran 15:50 and 33:17 in 2012 in her senior year of HS.

Signed with Stanford, but never ran for them...or at least I don't remember any races.

Then she disappeared----no reason given.

Don't even think she's still in school, let alone running.

Was 28th at NCAA cross as a frosh.

aaron krohn wrote:

Add Cayla Hatton to that list.

She ran 15:50 and 33:17 in 2012 in her senior year of HS.

Signed with Stanford, but never ran for them...or at least I don't remember any races.

Then she disappeared----no reason given.

Don't even think she's still in school, let alone running.

No forks yet wrote:

Molly Mcnamara just raced at Payton Jordan

Weissenbach and Cuffe only missed 2014. Re you sure they are not just redshirting?

Weissenbach is no longer running.

Source: Best friend on the Women's team.

At Stanford students are not willing to sacrifice their academics and GPA for a sport. Running for Stanford creates the perfect Madison Holleran type situation. A lot of the times these girls are so exhaused that they are depressed. So the option is to either quit or be miserable. The only ones that can handle the academic pressure and athletic pressure are either abusing stimulants, or they are naturally brilliant to where they don\'t need to study much. One of the girls mentiond in the OP collapsed from exhaustion one day after doing a crazy workout then completing a 9 hr study session for an exam she had. So do a lot of girls quit track? Yes we are only human. I'd appreciate if Stanford university and especially the womens track team was not talked about on this message board. Thank you.

Spare me. Stanford's standards have not changed for decades, certainly not upward (grade inflation's a fact), yet the current roster is the one missing most of its fantastic prospects. If they are making a financial decision based on trying to get some of that social media money, that's one thing. Don't give me the academic nonsense. Stanford's not the only difficult institution out there.

Cardinal fire wrote:

At Stanford students are not willing to sacrifice their academics and GPA for a sport. Running for Stanford creates the perfect Madison Holleran type situation. A lot of the times these girls are so exhaused that they are depressed. So the option is to either quit or be miserable. The only ones that can handle the academic pressure and athletic pressure are either abusing stimulants, or they are naturally brilliant to where they don't need to study much. One of the girls mentiond in the OP collapsed from exhaustion one day after doing a crazy workout then completing a 9 hr study session for an exam she had. So do a lot of girls quit track? Yes we are only human. I'd appreciate if Stanford university and especially the womens track team was not talked about on this message board. Thank you.

Sorry, but HS phenoms who sign with Stanford, then basically disappear, is news!

A girl runs the All-Time 2nd fastest 10K ever (for High Schoolers) and the 3rd fastest 5K normally have tons of expectations thrown at them.

That's the price of success at an early age.

So to be asked to NOT mention Stanford or their track team's female roster is really a stupid request, in the face of it.

Why not just answer our questions about these "disappearances"!

Oh, and BTW, today is Cayla Hatton's 21st birthday!

keanu wrote:

Daniel Radfish wrote:

Exactly this. Running around ovals is where it's at.

*Stadium

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Stadium.html

this kid know's where its at

Cardinal fire wrote:

At Stanford students are not willing to sacrifice their academics and GPA for a sport. Running for Stanford creates the perfect Madison Holleran type situation. A lot of the times these girls are so exhaused that they are depressed. So the option is to either quit or be miserable. The only ones that can handle the academic pressure and athletic pressure are either abusing stimulants, or they are naturally brilliant to where they don't need to study much. One of the girls mentiond in the OP collapsed from exhaustion one day after doing a crazy workout then completing a 9 hr study session for an exam she had. So do a lot of girls quit track? Yes we are only human. I'd appreciate if Stanford university and especially the womens track team was not talked about on this message board. Thank you.

I did it and I was fine. That was back when it snowed in Palo Alto and we walked into school, across the foothills, each day in waist high snow. I used to swim the bay after practice to get back to my shared garage in Frisco each night because I couldn't afford to live on campus. Some nights I would get drunk at the nut house and sleep with the gorilla.

Have you been to Stanford and the Bay Area? So many great distractions, such a tough school. If you get into stanny you're smart AND athletic so your priorities probably sort themselves out. Running isn't the way for everyone me boy

Pac.12 hopeful wrote:

Cami Chapus, Amy Weissenbach, Asling Cuffe, Molly Mcnamara, do they just quit to focus on school, get injured or what?

Agreed. In a sport that doesn't pay well unless you achieve the status of a high profile athlete, then you shouldn't blow this opportunity. Athletics of course shouldn't consume your life.

Education > Athletics

In the long run.

LandonGP wrote:

Agreed. In a sport that doesn't pay well unless you achieve the status of a high profile athlete, then you shouldn't blow this opportunity. Athletics of course shouldn't consume your life.

Education > Athletics

In the long run.

I want to know why they don't get the ball sports education plan. If they expect to win something education is a distant second.