Katie Rainsberger, Lilli Burdon Others Not On Oregon's 2018 Roster

Better than speculation from people who know nothing.

Robert Johnson is in big trouble!

rojo wrote:

I enjoyed the Q&A with Murphy but this excerpt concerned me:

"I was gonna take an online class. I already took one the first four weeks but it was so stressful because you condense 10 weeks of school into four weeks so I dropped that class. I'm pretty much just focusing on running and cross training right now."

But you are only taking 1 class. So yes it's more intense but it's one class.

Enough school to get the scholarship check so don’t have to work and allow a graduation path as schools like Oregon cap number of credits per semester to further manipulate aid “limits”

Natural that they would follow their coach and the short distance to Seattle makes it even easier. Oregon has brought in two stud coaches. It will take a few years but they need to bring in fresh talent that they recruit and then develop it. Oregon is Oregon. Tradition, fan support for distance running, host of major championships, facilities, fully funded scholarships, pro runners close, nike. Will take awhile but they will scale the mountain in a few years......

Pendergast was pretty bad at Oregon . Came on a little in cross . They threw her in the steeple and she was even worse . But she is still a stud based on H and High School !

I was confused by the steeple listing. I suppose they figured she might score a few points in the conference meet.

so what's happening with Josh Hoey?

Shadow Lurker wrote:

bleu wrote:

Murphy is staying.

http://www.milesplit.com/articles/245302-kate-murphy-still-optimistic-after-tough-1st-year-at-oregon

Yeah because no one wants her anymore lol.

I'd take her.

Gwalkerruns wrote:

Natural that they would follow their coach and the short distance to Seattle makes it even easier. Oregon has brought in two stud coaches. It will take a few years but they need to bring in fresh talent that they recruit and then develop it. Oregon is Oregon. Tradition, fan support for distance running, host of major championships, facilities, fully funded scholarships, pro runners close, nike. Will take awhile but they will scale the mountain in a few years......

It not the end of the world. Natural yes, emotional yes, well thought out no.

Athletes will move and change, the new coaches will build their program around the athletes they recruit.

Its unfortunate for someone like Katie who would have been apart of history as a duck and enjoyed a long tradition and camaraderie long after graduation, she will become a footnote in duck history.

Shadow Lurker wrote:

Lake Washington SUP wrote:

I can’t divulge my source yet, but I promise you that it’s true.

Rainsberger talked to CU, but the money was better at UW and she wanted to follow the Powell’s.

We all know your source is Lisa Rainsberger...you don’t have to hide it, she told half of Colorado & anyone else who’d listen...as usual.

Mark W. is a little smarter than that, Katie turned him down first go around out of high school. Her shopping universities shows she was not so loyal to her Oregon coaches, would love to hear where else she was looking or Lisa was looking...

Universityoftrackandfield has essentially confirmed on Instagram that Judy Pendergast is returning to Harvard.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmcSFNIFX8T/?taken-by=universityoftrackandfield

... and Judy said as much on her own instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmbd_DXBnKm/?taken-by=judypendergast

In her very long post, she says this in the comments about her 2018-19 season:

"In terms of the future, I don’t plan on competing on the team this upcoming year. In fact, I’m just trying to get back into decent shape after taking some mental rest??‍♀️ and getting back into shape is proving to be just as tough as I thought it would be! ??‍♀️"

There’s a girl at Oregon that no one on this thread is talking about but I guarantee you is the most talented girl in that mid-distance group. Rainsberger can’t hold a torch to this girl. Hint: she transferred to Oregon from an SEC school.

C/M Runner wrote:

... and Judy said as much on her own instagram page:

. . .

In her very long post, she says this in the comments about her 2018-19 season:

"In terms of the future, I don’t plan on competing on the team this upcoming year. In fact, I’m just trying to get back into decent shape after taking some mental rest??‍♀️ and getting back into shape is proving to be just as tough as I thought it would be! ??‍♀️"

All in all, it seems like a very fortunate series of events for her.

Remember this post wrote:

There’s a girl at Oregon that no one on this thread is talking about but I guarantee you is the most talented girl in that mid-distance group. Rainsberger can’t hold a torch to this girl. Hint: she transferred to Oregon from an SEC school.

Are we speaking of Ruby Stauber? If so I do expect her to do really well....not sure if she would fit in the 800/400 group with Johnson or if she is a better fit for 800/1500 with Ben Thomas. Either way she will be in great hands in the with either group.

fully loaded Cross Braining wrote:

rojo wrote:

I enjoyed the Q&A with Murphy but this excerpt concerned me:

"I was gonna take an online class. I already took one the first four weeks but it was so stressful because you condense 10 weeks of school into four weeks so I dropped that class. I'm pretty much just focusing on running and cross training right now."

But you are only taking 1 class. So yes it's more intense but it's one class.

thats a 10 credit load.....at Oregon.

I have to run for an hour.....AND read for an hour? ughhhh

I loaded up on correspondence classes and graduated in 3 years, easy peasy.

This is a truly alarming time management problem. I realize the kid is in college but Jesus Christ how lazy can one be? Somehow I managed to take two online courses this summer, simultaneously, while working full time and training. I don't want to pile on and be a jerk but (I will) with that attitude she should probably just give up on the sport because with that mental weakness she won't ever come close to running what she did in high school.

According to her father, she was thriving at Harvard both athletically and academically while PWD was coaching there; the coaching change was the impetus for her to consider her options and, eventually, to go all-in to "chase the dream" athletically at Oregon. That was a risk that didn't pan out, and now -- following what I characterized as, seemingly, a "very fortunate series of events" -- she has the chance to return to Harvard and pursue whatever she chooses. Whatever disappointments may have occurred over the past year at Oregon, it seems a little far-fetched to pin them on her freshman coach at Harvard.

Letmeguess wrote:

Remember this post wrote:

There’s a girl at Oregon that no one on this thread is talking about but I guarantee you is the most talented girl in that mid-distance group. Rainsberger can’t hold a torch to this girl. Hint: she transferred to Oregon from an SEC school.

Are we speaking of Ruby Stauber? If so I do expect her to do really well....not sure if she would fit in the 800/400 group with Johnson or if she is a better fit for 800/1500 with Ben Thomas. Either way she will be in great hands in the with either group.

Correct. She seems to be an all purpose 800m runner who will progress to being a world class 1500m runner. I’d think like houlihan but wouldn’t go up to 5k as soon.

Not Really wrote:

Hard to see how this is a fortunate series of events for her. Looks to me like another Patrick Wales Dinan casualty. What a disaster he was for everyone on the Harvard team.

She did well when coached by Wales Dinan. She left because they fired him.