What is up with UW Women's Program? (AGAIN)

Any word on her eligibility? Will she have to sit a year?

XC and track you do not have to sit out a year.

If not given a release by the athletic dept you must sit out.

Some schools do not. UNC had a policy of not allowing immediate elig. but they changed it last season for a few girls.

Liberty was feeling ripped off last year and didn't. I tell you this: under normal circumstances I would allow it but not if the new school initiated contact.

Most DI schools have policies for the entire athletic department.

This is not just UW this is a national problem ...NCAA

There is a growing trend to young runners choosing to be successful by losing weight, this is very sad. And, I find it hard to believe that a success that came at the expense of hurting oneself is a success worth having...I am pretty sure that when a NCAA school/coaching staff finds out about one of their athletes struggling, they form a support team of doctors and others to help said athlete be healthy in every way possible. Of course, the athlete must first accept what they are doing is a problem and decide they want to change, or the efforts of the coaches and others are wasted. And, if they don't get help and the problems grow into other diseases, which they often do, they can end up hurting their teammates and friends in the process. In which case, I fully support all athletes that transfer/ take time away from running. We all deserve a blank slate and another try, though i'm sure the same resources are available at most NCAA schools. I don't know anything about the UW girls reasons for leaving - this is just a trend I have witnessed myself.

I think coaches at the NCAA level want their athletes to be successful, but it is young girls that choose to lose weight to be successful. Coaches these days know they can't pull the shit of the past. They know to watch what they say and do, because I would like to think they are a little more educated about how their words can affect their athletes. But, these young girls look at the NCAA leaders and see skin and bones and decide they need to also be that small to have success. Is this a coaching failure? Who has failed them here? And, what if they were raised in a great supportive family, or were fully educated about the the long term negative effects of disordered eating. Who is to blame if the athletes make a decision to lose weight knowing the consequences of their actions? Teammates, coaches, their parents? And, the worst part is we put these tiny ass girls and boys on a pedestal and only take to the blogs to hypothesis on their problems we know nothing about when it does catch up to them and they do start failing.

The coaches are aways a piece of the puzzle, but never the only person all blame should be place upon, that is unfair. At the end of the day athletes make decisions for themselves. To be successfully in whatever way they define success for themselves..to try hard at school or to not... to drink or to not drink.. to lose weight or not... I'm not saying coaching can't influence athletes and have negative effects, obviously they can, its just very hard to believe the UW coaches hold 100% blame in why this girl is leaving.

It also ridiculous to think weight doesn't play a large role in this sport. The important thing to realize it is just not the only thing. You can have a girl with 20% body fat run the same mile at a girl with 5% body fat - its a ratio thing not a weight thing. And at the professional level of running weight has to be talked about and is usually an open issue between coaches and professional athletes for this reason. Just as how much they are drinking is because its their life/livelihoods that are at stake. It does matter, but managing it responsibility and not losing or gaining weight drastically over months-weeks- is crucial to ones long term success in this sport.

A final note to whoever posted about the female runner Amy's eyes, i'm sure that was suppose to be nice, but would you have made a blog post about her eyes if she was a he. "Wow that Izaic Yorks - he sure is a tough competitor, he really battled today" vs " Wow Izaic's eyes just looked great today in that little race he ran"

I'm not saying its sexists.... but could we not make comments on her body and instead make comments on her grit perhaps? XOXO-

I totally agree with you, and both have externalities the person with the problem may not be able to see

Kikko Man wrote:

Anonrunner, you called it!

Paul Merca of paulmerca.blogspot.com just posted to confirm.

http://paulmerca.blogspot.com/2017/07/charlotte-prouse-transfers-from.html

Why didn't she compete in track in 2017? Also it's cool that letsrun figured out first that she's transferring. It makes me feel famous to be on such a famous message board!

Should be interesting to see Oregon and New Mexico battle it out on the Women's side in Cross next year. Oregon top 5 should be awesome Cash,Rainsberger,Murphy,Ejore and Cardama-Baez and if Baxter can find her High School form I like Oregon's chances next year.

Murphy will redshirt.

they call me flopro wrote:

Should be interesting to see Oregon and New Mexico battle it out on the Women's side in Cross next year. Oregon top 5 should be awesome Cash,Rainsberger,Murphy,Ejore and Cardama-Baez and if Baxter can find her High School form I like Oregon's chances next year.

lets allow people who chose to transfer an opportunity to have a fresh start and start to make progress in their journey, hope all goes well for Prouse and the women @ UW still

If Prouse does or did have an eating disorder that resulted in lower-than-healthy weight, isn't it possible that UW held her out of competition during indoor & outdoor track seasons precisely because of that? If that's the case, then didn't UW do the right thing?

lol be gone troll

I might consider hiring the Steidls...if I were running a junior college program. It will take at least 3 recruiting classes to undo what the Steidls have done.Unless the next coach at SeattleU can recruit and/or get a significant raise in scholarship money, that program ain't going nowhere. Seattle Pacific will still have a better track and XC program than SeattleU.

Go hawks wrote:

Pretty soon Seattle U's program will be better than UW, the way things are going

May as well hire away the Steidl's to run the Huskies program

A few years ago it was stars Katie Flood and Liberty Miller skipping their senior years, now Prouse leaves...these are three of the top female runners ever at UW, and yet the silence is deafening as to why. Insiders like Merca who might know aren't talking, and Metcalf keeps tweeting about everything except that his program just took another body blow after an abysmal year in XC and middle/long distance track for both genders.

Certain insiders on this board aren't inside enough. Some are friends or acquaintenances with GM. They may deny there are big issues or not see or be willing to believe there have always been issues. The best programs graduate happy, passionately loyal alumni. The staff say great things about their leader and would go to war for them. College coaching is not just getting the W any way you know how/being unscrupulous. Student athletes come in as amateur teenagers and should leave better/more grown/more confident than they arrived, and they should be happy. UW staff wont publically throw GM under the bus. Does that mean there is no problem? No.

Ducksuck wrote:

A few years ago it was stars Katie Flood and Liberty Miller skipping their senior years, now Prouse leaves...these are three of the top female runners ever at UW, and yet the silence is deafening as to why. Insiders like Merca who might know aren't talking, and Metcalf keeps tweeting about everything except that his program just took another body blow after an abysmal year in XC and middle/long distance track for both genders.

Apparently Knight will also not be racing for UW for her final year either, Katie (flood) round 2? another PAC12 champ leaves the Metcalf team

PNWash wrote:

Ducksuck wrote:

A few years ago it was stars Katie Flood and Liberty Miller skipping their senior years, now Prouse leaves...these are three of the top female runners ever at UW, and yet the silence is deafening as to why. Insiders like Merca who might know aren't talking, and Metcalf keeps tweeting about everything except that his program just took another body blow after an abysmal year in XC and middle/long distance track for both genders.

Apparently Knight will also not be racing for UW for her final year either, Katie (flood) round 2? another PAC12 champ leaves the Metcalf team

Where's she going?

PNWest wrote:

PNWash wrote:

Apparently Knight will also not be racing for UW for her final year either, Katie (flood) round 2? another PAC12 champ leaves the Metcalf team

Where's she going?

She is forgoing her last year of eligibility