Also, entries have closed and she's not entered.
Also, entries have closed and she's not entered.
BS Detector wrote:
I'm going to take a wild guess and say J.R. does not coach a top team.
I would not waste the valuable time of runners I train by making them run relays instead of the individual events they have trained for.
Putting the relays at the end of the meets would allow the athletes to compete well in their individual events, and to later enjoy competing in relays with teammates when the pressure is off - instead of wasting their energies for nothing.
The only reason for relays is for the glory of coaches who don't care about the runners on their team.
J.R. wrote:
I would not waste the valuable time of runners I train by making them run relays instead of the individual events they have trained for.
Putting the relays at the end of the meets would allow the athletes to compete well in their individual events, and to later enjoy competing in relays with teammates when the pressure is off - instead of wasting their energies for nothing.
The only reason for relays is for the glory of coaches who don't care about the runners on their team.
Confirming my guess you don't coach a top team; you probably don't coach at all. Relays build teams. It's a fact. When you come home with four national champions, it's more impressive and inspirational to other kids than coming home with one. If you doubt this, look at the correlation between top cross country teams and relay squads. If you run the big relays, you'll have a bunch of motivated kids coming out for cross country two months later.
5/10 - I thought it was a little obvious, but you have made it onto two pages without being called out. Good job.
Lionel Leach, the head of Youth Programs for USATF, required her to get another 1500m qualifier. He has not given any reasonable explanation for his actions. It forced Cami to run another race for no reason just to meet his demands if she wanted to run at World Youth. He alone makes the rules. It is a clear attempt by him to prevent her from running. Not sure why. She already had an IAAF approved qualifying mark from an IAAF meet.
Title IX wrote:
hoi polloi wrote:You have to look at the goals of each athlete in context. Take Cami Chapus. She had already won CIF in a fast time, had won the Dream Mile in a more tactical affair, and was effectively the national mile champion. What she didn't have was a 1500 qualifier for USA's. She cruised easily to that at NBN (jogging the last 109m), then got to be part of prep history by anchoring a huge DMR record. Next year she comes back for a shot at the all-time prep record in the mile.
That is some smart coaching.
I'm confused; USATF Juniors accpet 1600 and mile times. She only needed 5:00.14 in the mile (she ran 4:42 a week earlier) at the Dream Mile. Why on Earth would she think she needed a 1500 time?
So it's the World Youth meet, not Junior Nationals. If IAAF was willing to take the mile (which their website doesn't make clear) this Leach guy is an idiot. Everyone should email him and ask for a clarification on his ruling. i'm going to.
Title IX wrote:
So it's the World Youth meet, not Junior Nationals. If IAAF was willing to take the mile (which their website doesn't make clear) this Leach guy is an idiot. Everyone should email him and ask for a clarification on his ruling. i'm going to.
Please post whatever you find out. I've yet to hear a reasonable explanation of why Leach wouldn't accept a 1500m FAT time taken enroute from the IAAF sanctioned Dream Mile when enroute times were accepted from other races. The facts are that Cami had several 1500m qualifying marks that the IAAF would accept but Leach would not. To qualify for World Youth you have to have both an IAAF accepted mark, which she did, and USATF acceptable mark which Leach claims she did not. Why he would porposely prevent a young athlete from competing in a meet she was qualified for is terrible. It's not like she's taking the place of some other qualified athlete.
hoi polloi wrote:
You have to look at the goals of each athlete in context. Take Cami Chapus. She had already won CIF in a fast time, had won the Dream Mile in a more tactical affair, and was effectively the national mile champion. What she didn't have was a 1500 qualifier for USA's. She cruised easily to that at NBN (jogging the last 109m), then got to be part of prep history by anchoring a huge DMR record. Next year she comes back for a shot at the all-time prep record in the mile.
That is some smart coaching.
what was smart about that?