No wonder Quincy Wilson is so good. Bullis high school's track team has 13 assistant track coaches

Bullis team is about 30 kids of each gender, maybe less. If you think about it that way, 13 coaches in a program that is mostly sprints is kind of a lot.

The head coach manages all the coaches(and Wilsons training if I understand it).

I remember checking several years ago and there didn't seem to be many throws coaches.

Pretty amazing sprint and middle distance team.

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And because if you are a star on your track team, they come in offer you free tuition or $$ and steal you from another team. That's why their relays should not be allowed to run against real high school teams. They're recruited regardless of state and not a true HS squad They're a DMV all star team.

My high school football team had 15 assistant coaches, so they must have been great. Oh wait, they finished the season with 2 wins and 8 losses...

Thanks. Well I wouldnt stay in a job as head coach, if it had that structure. I like coaching too much. Hard enough to deal with equipment needs, scheduling, community snd support groups, individual athletes and coaches, and all the other tasks that the skipper is heir to! I'd rather have a cracker-jack couple of student managers and a couple reliable assistant coaches than a bunch of hotshotassistant coaches running around.

We live in Maryland. We are very familiar with the Bullis program. They have historically been a sprints oriented program but they are becoming more of a complete program and have a good distance coach. Collin Abrams is an 800 runner going to Stanford. They have some younger guys coming up as well. Rei Nettey transferred there and ran XC but hasn’t seen him run indoor, hope he is okay. It is a shame that the University of Maryland is as bad as it is. That could be an invaluable pipeline.

Speaking of stdt mgrs: As head coach in xc and track at Hogan High vallejo ca, I had just such a "cracker jack" student manager: Sean Melton, quick witted rambunctious undersized "leprachaun" of a guy. Bright-eyed and bushy tailed, this little guy managed what little equipment we had, followed me around like an eager puppy, helped individual team members w any of their needs, took notes, set up hurdles, and many other tasks. Underappreciated and overworked, but this kid loved it! One time at our meet with cross town rival Vallejo High, a powerhouse of sprinters and relays! Sean kept a literally running score after each event and updated me to the minute. In the closing minutes, lil sean raced up to me with the news that it was "all tied up, and depended on the last event, the two-mile""!. Because of that info I could talk one of my 800 guys to jump in the two--a sub 2 guy. For the points, because big V only had a couple mediocre guys on deck. With our three, two sub 10 guys and our last minute 800 recruit in his first ever 2-who beat both their guys w about a 10:10. We won the meet on that. Thats a manager!
so heres the thing: a couple years later Sean was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a 6 year old boy, Jeremy Stone and hauled off. I was shocked and confused. It just didnt feel right--fora lot of reasons! I got nowhere advocating informally for him. And it was only years later that the case broke and th real creepy culprit was identified and apprehended. Sorry for the long story, but I just wanted to mention this fine young man, unjustly punished. And to say my reason for believing in him was based on my relationship w him as coach-to-student manager. And that was enough: his performance, heart, feet, and sharp brain, made him every bit as valuable and praiseworthy as any coaching assistant I ever knew or worked with. Apologies and respect to him. Coach E.

Have we already had a thread on his form yet? I mean its 10x worse than Steiner. It gets the job done, im not nitpicky about small biomechanical variability, but he is ALL over the place flinging arms, head thrown back wildly. 13 coaches couldn't dial that in 10 or 20%?

The nice thing about coaching a program like BUllis (I'd imagine, and I very well could be wrong), is that most of their athletes are probably far above avg., so you don't have the typical issue of coaching high school track, which turns into a participation activity for some, where you are not only trying to coach your high level athletes, but also manage the "participants."

But it can all be done. If you tell a really great coach that he's on his/her own to coach 60 kids, 2 genders, and 17 events, they'd find away. Not in anything close to ideal fashion, but the job would get done, and get done well.

And it's not unreasonable or unneeded to have 13 coaches, or even 20 coaches between boys and girls. It's just a huge luxury that I'm shocked a school would fund. Of course with a program like Bullis, you'd probably have coaches lined up to work for free with some of that talent.

It's certainly like that in football and basketball. At my school, coaching staffs are doubled from what the school actually funds.

Track is not big in this area, so we are lucky to get people to take the jobs for money, and they are often not even track people.

yes , I'm sure there have been athletes in the past has talented as him that did not get the coaching and guidance to perform up to their talents.

Name one?

Bullis is an allstar team from the DMV. They look at the best runners from other HS's in the area and then steal those runners. They should not be allowed to run in HS relays because their recruited runners do not all originate from a region around the school.

Yes it's a HS team, but their relay times should only count as a club team.

There's a lot of talk about them trying to recruit a lot of sprinters from other schools.

Rojo, for the 999,747,274th time showing how low of an IQ he has.

The lack of knowledge you spill out on these threads, Rojas, and ridiculous things you post about the sport is staggering. Just because a school has 13 assistant coaches doesn’t mean the program is going to produce a 44-second quarter miler like Quincy Wilson. I’d even argue having that many assistant coaches/voices in the athlete’s head is actually bad for the guy. Plus, obviously not all 13 assistant coaches are coaching Wilson. Educate yourself before producing threads on your own site, Rojo.

Rei nettey is not at bullis anymore a kid from bullis said he already transferred and is at a moco public school (not running)

Sorry to hear that. I was wondering what was going on with him. Followed him since he was 9 years old as my son competed against him. Incredibly talented kid. He transferred so many times though. Ran at McGrudder, Dematha I think, Calvert Hall, then Bullis. And now back at a public. He may not be allowed to run because I think the rule is if you transfer mid school year after starting somewhere else as a runner in Maryland you cant run for another school. Maybe he will run club? I don’t know but he was good enough to run in college already so maybe he still will. I wish him the best. Hope he hasn’t given it up.

He most definitely has had the skill to run at the college level for the past 3 years hopefully he just settles down at whatever school hes at and doesnt try going to a 6th highschool 😂