Katelyn Tuohy: What's Preventing Her From Attending/Competing In NCAA Next Year?

I like this idea, it’s seems pretty creative and like it could offer more benefits than drawbacks.

However, she is still only a 15 year old girl, and honestly, college is the last place I’d want someone of that age to be. From a purely competitive and long term athletic/academic standpoint, I’m sure something like this could work for her by the time she is 17 or so, but the potential hazards also remain and the social pressures of college aren’t something you want to just throw on someone who isn’t prepared for it.

As a fan, I do hope she is able to find a way to continue to compete and improve in the future. Whether that does mean going to college early, in the future, going pro, or becoming a road runner, I’m sure it is something her, her family, and friends have discussed extensively and will be able to make the right decision for in the future.

Iona college is nearby

Iona College is a bad fit because she's 10 years younger than the other runners and she is American

What's stopping her?

Just good sense.

I could see her flourishing at a small school near home like Cuse where they aren’t run into the ground. However, the absolute worst thing for her would be getting dropped into a large, cutthroat program like Stanford, Penn, or Oregon where she had to train at a collegiate level to maintain a varsity spot.

Providence/Ray Treacy

There is nothing to prevent her from continuing high school while running unattached in college meets on the weekends. Later after the main ncaa track season ends, she can them do the junior nationals/usatf meets as her post season. She might even be able to shoot for usatf nationals as her final race of the season

Next fall she can do the same and try to make a jr worlds xc team as her post season.

I see no reasom for her to jump ahead to the ncaa system now. That would not only remove her from having a normal high school experience, it would be difficult, since she would have to finish some basic classes and get her SATs done.

Creative idea. But the right thing to do is to stay in high school or go pro. And for her, the right thing to do is high school.

As said before, she can run 10-12 high school meets a year, only focus on conference, state and national championships. A lot of them can be glorified workouts. Real races can be against whoever she wants it to be.

You're right that she doesn't learn how to race, but she can still get faster and better while chasing times.

She is nowhere close to being able to compete in college academically. There is no way she is even close to the NCAA eligibility core requirements at this time. This is not to say she is a bad student but she needs to have 4 years worth of core credits and SAT scores. She is likely not even remotely close to being a college academic qualifier at this time.

Why can't she compete against HS boys?

She could just (temporarily) identify as a boy or as some made-up gender. According to the extreme left, it is racist to do gender tests, so there is no way to verify that she is indeed a girl. And morally it's fine too, because she will transition to the stronger gender (the opposite of pulling a Caster).

I know you're joking, but in high school once you compete against boys you can't go back to competing against girls- that would be for states and any sanctioned high school events.

Yikes.

Katelyn has an older brother named Patrick who's a senior in high school. She now has a faster 5k PR than him. Whoops. Luckily, he can still demolish her in the 3200, 1600, and 800 (9:36, 4: 23, 1:58).

I wonder who will improve more in the next 3 years...

That’s great info that I wasn’t aware of. That makes me think that she won’t be as fast as a was predicting. I am now going with a lifetime best of 15:10. Her brother will be a 4:05 miler lifetime best.

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That’s great info that I wasn’t aware of. That makes me think that she won’t be as fast as a was predicting. I am now going with a lifetime best of 15:10. Her brother will be a 4:05 miler lifetime best.

Wow. I'd be shocked if he improved to 4:05. In my opinion, 4:10-4:15 is more likely, since he's probably been training at a fairly high level already given the awkward possibility of being chicked by his little sister.

What she should do after this indoor season is "quit" the sport of distance running for the remainder of her HS career. She should take up a new sport—sprinting. If she focussed on the 200m , 400m, and 800m for the next two to three years, she would continue to experience the highs of running PRs, and avoid setting lifetime PRs in the longer races. When she returns to distance running in college, she will be able to keep improving over the 80m, mile and eventually dabble in 3k and 5k races again. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO RUSH!!! Look at what the other HS prodigy is doing this year? Sydney Mclaughlin is not doing her specialty 400H at all this year, but instead doing the sprint hurdles and long jump! You can't keep running PRs every year once you reach a certain level, but youth need the sense of improvement to keep motivated. If people around her read this, please take the long term approach! think 2028, 2032, 2036. those Olympic games she'll be 25, 29 and 33—the optimal ages for women in distance running. You've got 10 whole years to get to that point, so in the mean time, work on other areas of the sport which will still help her long term goals (sprinting), and not burn her out before then.

NCAA? If her progression continues in the next year she needs to transition to professional running. With her talent 4 years in the NCAA would compromise her development. The level of running in college would not be high enough. You must remember it is not unusual for the the Africans have both men and women running world class times in their teens.

She's a suburban kid from Rockland County. Going to college is probably the right thing for her. Put studies first, go to a program that will let her talent work for itself (Syracuse was mentioned), and enjoy college life. Even with her stunning talent, a pro running career is both risky and only rarely is even marginally lucrative.

Why waste all these years on irrelevant events? The big money is in the marathon.

She should start to train for the full merry today.

Didn't that work great for AlanaHadley?

She should go to college like everyone else, get a great education, and make something of herself outside of running. Hey, it is only a sport. The most boring (and dissatisfied) people in the world only have sports.