Why go to Stanford and watch your running career never progress? You can get a great education yes but go to Villanova and you get both. And no im not comparing Villanova to Stanford academically but you can go to Villanova and get into great medical schools as you would if you went to Stanford and that's her goal isn't? But she could have that and be an NCAA champ.
Looks like she was injured for 2013 outdoor, hence the "pop-up" performance in her senior year.
The Jamaican girl redeemed herself by coming back for a 53.3 split to help her team win the 4x4 (teammate in 52!)
they call me flopro wrote:
Weisenbach spelling 71st in 2:08.15 didn't Wisenbach run 2:02 flat in high school lol she is now 6 plus seconds slower in college at least this year lol Stanford=garbage track/Cross but good school.
2:00.98 = not garbage
they call me flopro wrote:
Weisenbach spelling 71st in 2:08.15 didn't Wisenbach run 2:02 flat in high school lol she is now 6 plus seconds slower in college at least this year lol Stanford=garbage track/Cross but good school.
2:00.98 = not garbage
didas wrote:
I agree with the nova statement. I actually don't know why the top recruits haven't been picking Villanova. It has great academics and a coach in Procaccio who is the best mid distance coach in the country. I'm actually baffled by it. If anyone has an explanation I'd love to hear it because to me it makes no sense.
Mid career salary (as of 2012) for Stanford: $114K
Mid career salary (as of 2012) for Villanova: $90K
Does this de-baffle you?
Why do these athletes keep on having sexual intercourse with their mothers?
TJ wrote:
Yes, she should have WENT there. Why go to Stanford when you can be a genius like this person and go to Villanova? She's smart enough to know that a Stanford education can't be beat.
Apparently you're not smart enough to know that there's no difference in education between those schools.
rwhitehead wrote:
Mid career salary (as of 2012) for Stanford: $114K
Mid career salary (as of 2012) for Villanova: $90K
Does this de-baffle you?
I'm baffled that you really think those stats are actually meaningful. You should just stay out of the conversation.
These incessant anti-Stanford potshots are more than tiresome, clearly evidence of a need to grind an ax, for whatever reason.
She, or anyone else for that matter, is going to make a decision for what THEY think is in their best interest. This constant Stanford Vs Oregon Vs anywhere else is mostly in the minds of the people who populate this board, and generally not elite runners themselves.
Athletes can develop at almost any program if they are sufficiently talented, motivated and well-coached. The latter is not as dependent upon the quality of the training group so much (as too many people on this board tend to think) as to whether a program can individualize training enough to capitalize on the first two variables (talent and motivation) for what an athlete brings to that table - i.e. not all 800m or 10000m runners will adapt to a program supposedly for people running those events. Somewhere along the line THAT individual needs to be considered (fit the program to the athlete, not the other way around). This is not as easy to do in a large program as one might think (logistics), and too many coaches don't care about it anyway - team comes first. This is (other than an athletes own self-destruction) the problem with development of athletes, and has little to do with the school's academic reputation. I see athletes NOT developing in ALL of these programs mentioned above, since none are perfectly coached, even though some develop quite well.
DedicatedRunner wrote:
No idea what her split was but coming back from so far behind it must have been respectable, although nowhere near the 2:02 she did this year.
I did not know who she was until your post, and I'm happy to hear she'll be attending Stanford in the fall.
Thanks.
Looks like roughly 67/64 from the youtube clock. Huge negative split.
It helps to know what you're talking about before pronouncing a bunch of lies. Amy Weissenbach has run only one outdoor 800 this year and it was in a dual meet, which she won easily. Last year she ran 2:00.98, the fastest freshman time in history. Stanford's women were sixth in the NCAA outdoors last year and seventh indoors this year. The men and women had four relay teams finish among the top three at the Penn Relays, they have six men who have run 4:02 or faster in the mile, and have All-Americans up and down their distance and throws rosters, not to mention a potential NCAA champ in the men's 400. Their past two recruiting classes have been among the best in the nation. Get a grip!
Also, Cory Carter won the 2013 NCAA 400 hurdles and also set an NCAA record. The 400 is Olivia's stronger event and Cory's success could have been a consideration she made. But I think down the road the 800 will eventually be Olivia's stronger event.
2012 New Jersey Group 4 4x400.
Olivia takes the baton a distant 5th, but with the same outcome.
I hadn't read this string in a couple of days. All of these Stanford haters are dreaming. Stanford currently has six male milers running under 4:02 and could have a female 4x800 national collegiate record team next year. Chris Miltenberg is the head coach. It's a new day. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Olivia was not injured last year. Ever since she ran 2:10 to win the NJ Group 4 800m as a freshman we knew she could run a lot faster if she needed to. We just didn't know how much faster. She has always tended to run to her competition because she was often running multiple races at each meet. Her goal was to conserve her energy so she ran only what she needed to run in order to win.
With respect to Stanford as her choice, I am pretty sure the results the new coaching staff (formerly of Georgetown University) had with Cory Carter played heavily into the decision from a track and field standpoint. However, I do know that Stanford's academic reputation was first and foremost in her decision.
By the way, among young female runners, there has been persistent scuttlebutt about rampant eating disorders at Villanova, and Oregon has been viewed as a job, i.e. you are an athlete who, incidentally, attends classes. Oregon has also been criticized as a factory that chews up new athletes and spits them out, with an "only the strong survive" over-the-top regimen.
FYI... Coach Morgan, Olivia's high school coach, has figured it out: The key to significant improvements is not running kids into the ground. The base Olivia and her Columbia HS teammates run on is fairly light, not high mileage, so they tend to make it easily through post season competitions, well into July, without burning out.
if you can get into Stanford you go to Stanford, unless you can get into Harvard or Yale (or Wharton for finance)