ppppppppp wrote:
Yes, to DGN, correct. They've done a hell of a job over the past few years.
The question of developing runners for college is interesting and has been going on forever. Obviously, once a runner graduates his coach is not longer the issue, so what happens in college is, in a sense, up to the runner. What I often see is that you see college runners who were not top HS runners end up developing superbly, and sometimes top runners do. They used a accuse York of not having great college runners, but this is not true. It is true that people ran at all kinds of levels- D1, D2, D3 and so on- and achieved success, but running was no longer their be-all and end-all. For. some York runners, running is all they did. So they were free, so to say, in college. Could run for fun, as part of a team or not at all.
Newton died in 2018, and I think he was the last of his breed- old school, big discipline, high mileage. We won't see his likes again, not in this internet savvy age.
Sorry, I wasn't correcting as I knew you mentioend DGN, I was just adding that they (like Hinsdale) also have two very good coaches who split duties between fall and spring, which is pretty impressive