When it came time to hunt, she was least to expect to be falling off the pack, Tuffy. Can she psychologically recover for the BU season opener?
Of course she will be ready, it's last race before her break.
She really will not be concerned about her nats finish. It's a long year, and she was good enough to help team win and make all american. On to track. A team title means more to most tuhan individual stuff anyway.
To the other poster, I left out Hartman by accident. Thanks for catch.
Good points overall. But to clarify, Starliper was severely injured during high school and arrived to NC State injured. She then struggled with that same injury for the rest of her collegiate career, including never racing after transferring to Colorado. While at NC State, she raced about 14 times (per tfrrs.org), and performed very well on several of those occasions, including 9th in the 5,000 at the 2022 outdoor NCAA championships.
My point isn't to pick on Starliper. She's great and her all america 5000 shows her talent. Hopefully things can still get back together for her at CU or as a pro.
The question is how good are coaches at identifying and developing talent? Henes gets credit for Chmiel&Tuohy, and developing Bush, Putman, Gapes and Napoleon.
No one wants to mention though that only 1 of 5 in Tuohy class ever scored at nats. Only 2 of 5 have scored from Napoleon class: Stephens (injured and transferred out), and Napoleon. Putman, Quarzo and Hall have not (yet).
Similarly Michalak running great, but Shea injured.
If a basketball coach brought in 12 top recruits and only 4 were getting playing time, that would be a terrible average.
Henes is a good coach and NC St is winning titles. This just shows how difficult it is in running to get recruiting right.
Shea is in recent (within last few weeks) pictures posted to the official NC State social media accounts running with teammates at practice. Looks like she may now be recovered from any past injury. Appears she redshirted this XC season even though not currently injured.
Good points overall. But to clarify, Starliper was severely injured during high school and arrived to NC State injured. She then struggled with that same injury for the rest of her collegiate career, including never racing after transferring to Colorado. While at NC State, she raced about 14 times (per tfrrs.org), and performed very well on several of those occasions, including 9th in the 5,000 at the 2022 outdoor NCAA championships.
My point isn't to pick on Starliper. She's great and her all america 5000 shows her talent. Hopefully things can still get back together for her at CU or as a pro.
The question is how good are coaches at identifying and developing talent? Henes gets credit for Chmiel&Tuohy, and developing Bush, Putman, Gapes and Napoleon.
No one wants to mention though that only 1 of 5 in Tuohy class ever scored at nats. Only 2 of 5 have scored from Napoleon class: Stephens (injured and transferred out), and Napoleon. Putman, Quarzo and Hall have not (yet).
Similarly Michalak running great, but Shea injured.
If a basketball coach brought in 12 top recruits and only 4 were getting playing time, that would be a terrible average.
Henes is a good coach and NC St is winning titles. This just shows how difficult it is in running to get recruiting right.
What a strange way to frame this. If you aren't scoring in XC then the coach isn't getting it right? Only 5 people can score. So how exactly is a coach supposed to get more than 1-2 athletes a class "right"? Not only is just being on a top 10 travel squad for a team like NC State a big accomplishment, but there are more seasons than just XC. Kate Putman is an all-american for the DMR, ACC DMR champ, all-acc 1500 runner and almost qualified for nationals last spring as a sophomore. Gionna Quarzo from Tuohy's class was a multi time all-acc runner in all 3 seasons and an all-american in the 10k outdoors.