I'm going to go with Steve Spence from shippensburg U., He has ran sub 25 for 8k on the roads in the past year and 15 lows for 5k in the last year.
I'm going to go with Steve Spence from shippensburg U., He has ran sub 25 for 8k on the roads in the past year and 15 lows for 5k in the last year.
Mark Conover - Cal Poly SLO Coach
While at Humboldt, Mark was an NCAA 10K champion, & NCAA cross-country champion. Mark led the 1980 cross-country team to an NCAA National Championship. Mark is the only NCAA athlete to win All-American honors in Div. I, II, and III. A nine-time All-American distance runner.
In 1988, Conover was the Olympic Trials Champion in the marathon.
He began training again, setting his sights on better times and the 1992 Olympics. As the Trials approached, flu-like symptoms plagued him and although he qualified to run the Trials, he did not make the team with his 2:18:17 time. The symptoms persisted and in 1993 he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.
Here Mark's true success story begins. Throughout an intense chemotherapy regimen Mark kept running, his own form of therapy that he felt was synergistic to the traditional treatments. In March of 1994 his cancer was declared to be in remission, and in June of 1995 he ran a 1996 trials qualifier of 2:20:35.
best athlete in the field is willy wood of columbia.
right now it would be ed moran at william and mary, absolutely no other coach could touch him.
13:20/27:43 last spring.
pleeeeeease wrote:
right now it would be ed moran at william and mary, absolutely no other coach could touch him.
13:20/27:43 last spring.
Yeah, pretty hilarious that someone said Fox, who ran a second faster two decades ago.
rob conner from up ran a two mile in about 10 minutes a couple weeks ago (don't know exact time heard it second hand) could any older guys (40plus) beat that
Cragg is an assistant coach at Arkansas.
Mike Power at Memphis.
Actual coaches who made the national meet, not alumni who drive the occasional van at practice, would be Gary from Ohio State. He qualified for like 10 world cross teams and hasn't gained the 50 pounds most elites do after retiring.
To have this discussion, the ground rules would have to be laid out. What fitness level they are in now, or what they were in ever? Not in CC, but Paul Ereng won an Olympic Gold Medal. Hard to argue with that.
I with the guy above, real coaches who are in great shape right now. Robert Gary.
Mike Power would not beat Cragg at any distance
How about Torpey from LaSalle?
Good Hodgkin's - I heard it was Good Hodgkin's.
U of Minnesota
Steve Plasencia
donald keys, esq. wrote:
Joe Piane. The rest would be pissing down their legs.
absolutely. he'd be out there in a tshirt that's 2x too big, covering up his team-issued running shorts, giving 'em hell.
Luke Watson at Notre Dame....still got some good wheels.
IU product Matt Sparks who coaches Southern Illinois University in Carbondale
Isn't Rod Koborsi assistant coaching at Georgetown? He'd be up there.
Or are we limiting this to head coaches?
Only Head Coaches count for one race, put assistants in a second one.
While he might not win it, Schumacher was a pretty good 1500m guy not too long ago. If you restrict it to those that are at DI nationals that makes an interesting sub-group. If you limit it to those that have won Coach-of-the-Year, I think Schumacher beats McDonnell easily, with Wetmore more of a challenge. Who else is in the COY race?