Top-10 Coaching Jobs in Women's NCAA Division I in 2011

miscott wannbe · 2011-11-17T16:55:49-05:00

Men to follow tomorrow. Please feel free to add to list. 1. Steve Keith (Vanderbilt) -- If they finish in the Top-10 at the NCAAs on Monday he gets my vote for the National Coach of the Year. Not only did the Commodores win their first-ever SEC title, this will be their first-ever NCAA bid. No international quick fix. This team was purely developed. 2. Karen Harvey (Florida State) -- The best women's distance coach in the country. In what was suppose to be a "rebuilding year" she has the Seminoles on the verge of a possible NCAA Championship. A podium performance is practically assured. If it wasnlt for such an amazing job by Keith, she would get my vote. 3. Mike Maguire (Michigan) -- Mike has the Wolverines inching closer to the podium after a few "down" years. Scorinig only 45 points at the Great Lakes Region on a fairly difficult course with a bunch of 800m-3000m kids, he has them living up to their potential heading into this year. 4. Helen Lehman Winters (San Francisco) -- Another team earning their first-ever NCAA Championships bid. They should have received on last year but were blocked by Cal. She has a couple of international studs, but has really done a great job of developing the program. The addition of track and field a few years ago has made a huge difference to this formerly cross country only program. 5. Paul Pilkington (Weber State) -- Making their first trip back to the NCAAs since 2006, Paul had them ready to race at the Region. They upset the BYU women at BYU to get pushed in. I cannot recall the last time that Weber defeated BYU at the NCAA Regional (maybe never)? This was a big step for the "other LDS" school. 6. Lou Deusing (Cornell) -- OK, so they didn't make it to the NCAAs, but had Lou known that his team would be this good, I think he would have scheduled better. They won their first-ever Ivy League (Heps) title over Columbia and finished an amazing 3rd at the NCAA Region. This is a team that deserves to be at the NCAAs. 7. Kevin Hadsell (Toledo) -- Ran short handed all fall until their conference, the Rockets have peaked perfectly. Huge win at the MAC and ran a gutty race at home to take down Wisco and Notre Dame and nearly beat MSU (8 pts). Return trip for Kevin's group after first-ever bid in '10 (28th). Team with no HS studs and no internationals. Purely developed. 8. Lance Harter (Arkansas) -- After a few disappointing seasons, Lance has the Razorbacks back in the hunt. He has done a great job of getting the young freshmen matured and developing his 800-1500m crew to believing that they can run cross country. A Top-15 finish and returning most of his team in 2012, this has been a great job by Lance. 9. Tony Sundooval (Cal) -- They started to show some promise last year when they blocked San Francisco from making the meet out of the stacked West Region. He has taken a huge recruiting class and added that to a very good team. This is their first trip back to the NCAAs in a long time (23 years). 10. Sean Cleary (West Virginia) -- Sean has the Mountaineers back in the hunt for the podium. They took a huge hit a year ago and redshirted a big group. With those redshirts back, he has really developed his program over the years. This year's team could be an outside shot at the podium due to their strengths up front and Sean's ability to get them ready when it matters. Honorable mentions: Jim Stintzi (Wisconsin), Randy Thomas (Boston College), Walt Drenth (Michigan State). Biggest Busts: Ray Traecy (Providence) -- Need I say more? How is this for karmaa? Sisson leaves Wisconsin for Providence. wisconsin is even better without her and makes it as a team while Sisson watched on Flotrack. I hope to have my men's list tomorrow. Any thoughts?

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14 years ago 11/19/2011 4:23pm EST

re: systemworkedover

systemworkedover wrote:
unc women and Florida women got worked by the system. Both those teams should be racing in terre haute. UNC women were third in the region and beat 7 of the at large teams head to head lost to 3 (stanford cal and Oregon)and didn't race 3 (wvu penn state annd weber state)
The only other teams they lost 2 all autoed from their region including 4 at the acc championships

I've got a little sympathy for UNC's situation (but not much coming from an era where only 22 teams made NCAA's). How did Florida get worked?

It looks like you needed to get points from more than one meet to get an at-large bid. Other than their conference meets, Florida and UNC raced each other in Gainesville when maybe they should have been at Paul Short, Griak, or Notre Dame.

Push rule seems to be a decent rule. Some schools don't have the budget to travel, schools that have big points should be able to push other schools into the meet.

14 years ago 11/19/2011 5:04pm EST

re: miscott wannbe

Drenth really ought to be ranked higher here. People tend to take it for granted, but he wins with decidedly less talent than Maguire at Michigan. Mike certainly does a nice job, but Drenth doesn't have anyone with anywhere near the high school credentials of Danielle Tauro or Jillian Smith. Michigan ran well at regionals (and would have won either way), but MSU was without arguably their #1. On Monday, I'd guess that whoever comes out ahead between the two will find themselves in the top 10.

14 years ago 11/19/2011 9:19pm EST

re: Hey Bud

while Keith did a great job developing Vanderbilt's women, he neglected the men. Merely, an outside observer, but from what it looks like to me, he shirks his responsibilities and for that reason I don't think he's worthy of this title. If he were a women's only coach it would be a different story, but he's not.

14 years ago 11/20/2011 12:22am EST

re: dcsxcxcx

Men have no funding at all at Vanderbilt, it is not a normal DI program.

dcsxcxcx wrote:
while Keith did a great job developing Vanderbilt's women, he neglected the men. Merely, an outside observer, but from what it looks like to me, he shirks his responsibilities and for that reason I don't think he's worthy of this title. If he were a women's only coach it would be a different story, but he's not.

14 years ago 11/20/2011 12:45am EST

re: dcsxcxcx

dcsxcxcx wrote:
while Keith did a great job developing Vanderbilt's women, he neglected the men. Merely, an outside observer, but from what it looks like to me, he shirks his responsibilities and for that reason I don't think he's worthy of this title. If he were a women's only coach it would be a different story, but he's not.

youre an idiot

14 years ago 11/20/2011 6:58am EST

re: dcsxcxcx

dcsxcxcx wrote:
while Keith did a great job developing Vanderbilt's women, he neglected the men. Merely, an outside observer, but from what it looks like to me, he shirks his responsibilities and for that reason I don't think he's worthy of this title. If he were a women's only coach it would be a different story, but he's not.

You make an interesting point. With the schools that have two teams(men and women) going to NCAA's, do any of them have the same coach? or are there two different coaches?

14 years ago 11/20/2011 9:46am EST

re: What????

What???? wrote:
Men have no funding at all at Vanderbilt, it is not a normal DI program.
dcsxcxcx wrote:
while Keith did a great job developing Vanderbilt's women, he neglected the men. Merely, an outside observer, but from what it looks like to me, he shirks his responsibilities and for that reason I don't think he's worthy of this title. If he were a women's only coach it would be a different story, but he's not.

Again.

14 years ago 11/21/2011 5:22pm EST

Vanderbilt finishes sixth, one point behind Oregon despite Hasay getting second (in a great woman's race with a great finish).

This one puts a smile on my face. Congratulations to Keith and his crew (Rhonda, and the others).

14 years ago 11/21/2011 5:25pm EST

re: 26mi235

14 years ago 11/21/2011 6:13pm EST

Milt has done a great job for sure. This is his 5th year , not 4th, at Georgetown though.

14 years ago 11/21/2011 9:24pm EST

re: dcfollower

Might want to add Miltenberg to that list now.

Got number one ranking preseason and despite mediocre performances kept his team's head in the game and got them read on the day that counted.

14 years ago 11/21/2011 11:49pm EST

re: NCS Fan

Randy Thomas just led Boston College to a 12th place finish. Incredible pack time i think it was under 40 seconds. They started off slow training hard then came on at the end of the year and peaked at the right time. You have to give him credit. I think they barely started out ranked then fell out of the rankings he needs to be in the top 10

14 years ago 11/22/2011 7:55am EST

re: Randy T

Great job by Toledo to finish 21st. With a healthy Fisher, they are a potential Top-15 program with no foreigners and no high school all-americans! Very impressive. In that region, he is the one doing the most with the least. He outcoached MacGuire and Drenth and certainly outcoached Stintzi and the Notre Dame guy.

If Hadsell is still coaching at Toledo a year from now I would be shocked.

14 years ago 11/23/2011 10:55am EST

re: Great Lakers

After the NCAA I would say:

Miltenberg

Metcalf

Proccachio

Vinny

Randy Thomas

BAS

Hadsell

Stintzi

Leeman-Winters

Herbster (darkhorse)

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