Has anyone ever heard of Rose Monday? She's the US Olympic women's distance coach

fly a kite wrote:

If you haven't heard of Rose, please stop posting and go back to school as in fact you don't know anything and haven't earned the right to post yet.

Go back to school as what?

She might have had some success with Regina Jacobs. At the 2000 Oly Trials, Jacobs' mother kept trying to sit on my feet in the aisle in front of Row 1, near the finish line. I heard her tell someone else that Regina had been working some with Rose Monday.But maybe Rose didn't know about the BALCO products that Jacobs was taking . . . it's certainly possible.

rojo wrote:

fly a kite wrote:

If you haven't heard of Rose, please stop posting and go back to school as in fact you don't know anything and haven't earned the right to post yet.

I guess this means I should shut down LetsRun.com as I'll confess I've never heard of her myself.

Does anyone know her pbs?

She doesn't coach Maggie Vessey anymore. She did for a few years, but not for over a year now.

I think Vessey ran 1:57:84 (1:57: something) when she was with Greg Brock. She went with Rose Monday and ran a few 1:58's off momentum, but never improved under Monday.

I heard Monday trained her more as a 800/1500 runner and Brock more as a 400/800 runner.

She's back with Greg Brock and back in sub 2:00 shape for the first time in a few years.

She may be a good coach, but things didn't work out with Maggie Vessey

She is coaching Laura Roesler now according to a tweet I saw last week. Forget who tweeted it.

Rose Monday has been around awhile now. First she was a national class 800 meter runner with a PR around 2 minutes flat. She ran several Olympic Trials before moving on as a Masters runner, where I believe she may still have several American 800 meter records. She has been the women's t&f coach at a private college in San Antonio and has been heavily involved with USATF committees for the past 15 years or so. At one point she was the chair of a committee on drug enforcement for the USATF. She has also been connected with USATF masters committee and about 10 years ago, she won a select invitational women's masters 800 metr race at the Prefontaine Classic breaking a world record time. More recently, she has coached Maggie Vesey and now will be coaching Laura Roesler. Sharp, composed, and experienced describe her, certainly a rarity at USATF.

Oklahoma Okie wrote:

Rose Monday has been around awhile now. First she was a national class 800 meter runner with a PR around 2 minutes flat. She ran several Olympic Trials before moving on as a Masters runner, where I believe she may still have several American 800 meter records. She has been the women's t&f coach at a private college in San Antonio and has been heavily involved with USATF committees for the past 15 years or so. At one point she was the chair of a committee on drug enforcement for the USATF. She has also been connected with USATF masters committee and about 10 years ago, she won a select invitational women's masters 800 metr race at the Prefontaine Classic breaking a world record time. More recently, she has coached Maggie Vesey and now will be coaching Laura Roesler. Sharp, composed, and experienced describe her, certainly a rarity at USATF.

How do you know this much info about her? Unless this is Rose writing.

People don't know that track existed before the internet.

Let me google:

http://www.goutsa.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=608948

Try Flotrack

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/238557-The-Pros-in-2011/video/481212-Rose-Monday-Maggies-new-coach

Scary piece of information, if true, given that Vessey apparently lost two or three years with Monday that she'll never get back.

Straight Answers wrote:

She is coaching Laura Roesler now according to a tweet I saw last week. Forget who tweeted it.

Bobby ssss asked: "How do you know this much info about her? Unless this is Rose writing."

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I am definitely not Rose Monday, but have crossed paths with her a number of times over the last 15 years or so. Believe me, she is highly respected. I do not know too much about her abilities as a coach, but she is definitely competent relative to many aspects of track and field nationally and internationally. The fact that she has ben sought out by both Vessey and Laura Roesler speaks volumes for the respect she gets from the women's running community.

okay, so she was a 203 to 209 800 meter runner based on her performances in salient domestic performances. and she then became a masters runner . she was 75 meter behind the top runners at her last oly trials.

NOCHURCHINTHEWILD wrote:

um. olympic coaches don't coach. not in track. its a vaction for the connected.

is that a holiday that sucks? I think I've been on one of those, I too have visited Miami.

Victorious Secret wrote:

She coaches Maggie Vesey.

Not any more. Maggie left Rose and got faster.

rojo wrote:

fly a kite wrote:

If you haven't heard of Rose, please stop posting and go back to school as in fact you don't know anything and haven't earned the right to post yet.

I guess this means I should shut down LetsRun.com as I'll confess I've never heard of her myself.

Does anyone know her pbs?

Wow , its interesting that the newbies to the sport are disconnected to the people who are helping run the sport , Rose is one those running the sport from USATF perspective. She has sat on many committees etc. and knows the game.

Not sure PB's mean anything here. it really about the deliverable as a senior person with influence.

Rose has and always will be on side of the athlete. Can she be effective , probably not. To much backside kissing with the management of USTAF, it allows her to be appointed Oly teams etc.

Oklahoma Okie wrote:

I am definitely not Rose Monday, but have crossed paths with her a number of times over the last 15 years or so. Believe me, she is highly respected. I do not know too much about her abilities as a coach, but she is definitely competent relative to many aspects of track and field nationally and internationally. The fact that she has ben sought out by both Vessey and Laura Roesler speaks volumes for the respect she gets from the women's running community.

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Did Maggie Vessey seek out Rose Monday or did Rose Monday seek out Maggie Vessey? I would guess the later. (In the interview, 2011 posted above, Rose almost admits that she...) Either way it definitely didn't work out for Maggie.