Montesquieu wrote:
Bringing up Cain is a red herring: currently she is the fourth fastest American and has the "A" standard. But Hasay has recognized that she doesn't have the speed (I believe her best 800 is around 2:08) for the 1500, and her 32:06 is, for a college senior, hardly pedestrian. But my point was that Hasay's going to Oregon worked out admirably for both, pace "Go Cyclones." Moreover, this is the most outstanding accolade--"she was named the Academic All-American of the Year for Track & Field/Cross Country, becoming the first sophomore to win that honor in any sport in the program's 60 year history"--and that says something about who she is and not what she does. Any parent with any sense would have fixed on that first. And no, I do not have any connection to Oregon, other than once, a very long time ago, having run six miles all too slowly at Hayward Field (but a thrill nevertheless).
No speed? Hasay ran 2:09 in HIGH SCHOOL. The no speed part comes from Oregon, not Hasay. After 4 years of (ahem) "training" at Oregon, she was not any faster than she was in high school. This belongs right next to the worthless diploma part (does Oregon even count as a real University?). I guess an HR department would rank an Oregon grad somewhat below a University of Oklahoma grad. Compare this with Morgan Uceny, who was, I believe, 2:13 before getting to Cornell, and 2:01 when she left. And Morgan has a diploma that says CORNELL. Just Like Julia Stamps has one that says STANFORD.
If Hasay had gone some place where she would have had a real coach who cared about his athlete's future instead of a self-promoter/recruiter who only cared about how many meaningless non-winning points she could score for HIS future, she might have had a chance at the kind of future everyone originally envisioned five years ago. Maybe if she joins Salazar or BATC she may get help from someone who actually knows what he/she is doing. Right now, it looks like Jordan is caught between trying to find an event slow enough that she has a chance to compete in it...and a worthless Oregon diploma. Academic All-American at Oregon does not mean quite the same thing it means at Stanford, Cal, Washington, UCLA, USC, Cornell, or MIT.
Instead, Hasay just looks like yet another promising athlete ruined by Vin Lanana (add to the list from Stanford that did nothing after college). Perfect example why no California high school athlete should be stupid enough to go to Oregon (except of course people like German Fernandez who really don't have the grades to go to a real university).