Zofia Dudak of Stanford today?

paul72 wrote:

bak wrote:

Something to look at with Stanford is not practicing as a team with a coach all first semester - coming back having to quarebtine in Jan for 10 days only practicing 6 weeks as a team - that much time away from team coach and lead to a lot of things - working too hard, running through injury, lack motivation ect - besides not learning to run as a team. Teams like nc state have been at school since august ... not sure this year we can make a judgement (except running a girl if you think she has a fracture)

agree-6 weeks compared to being 6 months together as a group doing regular workouts/races is big...

Yea...but just a week or so ago they dominated Pac 12. I think their weakness at 4-6 got displayed by the tough course....as any weakness on any runner there did. I think they got by on easier courses and probably slower field. In the big field you either go out quick or you are way, way back.

too much stress. wrote:

Stanford has always had issues with stress fractures in their runners.

It seems they knew of something going into the race.

"Zofia has something going on with her foot and it got much worse on the course," Clark said. "She had every right to stop, but that's nowhere in her mindset, so she didn't. She displayed toughness today and we hope to have her up and going soon."

Yes they thought it was a stress reaction but she and the coaching wanted her to run.

But you could say their 4-6 are weaker because they haven’t trained with the top three - had to do everything on their own and their time off during quarentine didn’t help their development . So if you have a team together for 6 months you build better even when injured.

I do find the whole running on a stress reaction interesting - but with a national title on the line do you just do it and hope for the best. It’s interesting at the college level we question the coach running them and at the hs level we brag about how tough the kid is showing up at nationals running through whatever sickness or injury to help the team (even if they miss then next 6 months)

FastTuohy wrote:

The one who does seem to be coming along is Lucy Jenks, who pretty much did not run XC in HS, but ran a pretty good mile. 73rd in team race, right on Aragon's heels at finish.

Jenks is running great for sure, but not too sure what happened to Aragon. Aragon used to run a 4:09 1500 in high school and early in her college career, since then has only broken 4:30 in the mile once.

bak wrote:

I do find the whole running on a stress reaction interesting - but with a national title on the line do you just do it and hope for the best. It’s interesting at the college level we question the coach running them and at the hs level we brag about how tough the kid is showing up at nationals running through whatever sickness or injury to help the team (even if they miss then next 6 months)

I'm pretty sure we question a coach racing a kid with a stress reaction at any level. Am I wrong?

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Likely that Donaghu, Haymach, Aragon, Lawson all are offered pro contracts this summer and don't return to school, so this was the season to hit the grand slam (which BYU did -- Stanford women, given all their returning talent, hit a bunt single).

Since the 2020-2021 school year is a mulligan for those who take it, understandable that Zofia & coaching staff took a chance and went for it.

So, don't expect to see Dudek's name back in Race Results Weekly this spring or summer . . . but it's all a freebie anyways and she now has the experience for this fall.

They are not all getting contracts. Faster people are getting dropped.

Does anyone know what happened to Aubrey Roberts?