NCAA Coaches who develop American athletes

Alex Maier

Taylor Roe

Ryan Schoppe

Will Muirhead

Ayden Granados

Wake Forest almost all americans?

they have at least 4 internationals on the roster right now and have been that way for the last few years.

Tomer Tarragano is 24 and british

100%

Having a few international athletes is totally fine, provided that they want to come to the U.S. for a college education as well as train, compete, and be part of a team. I also think that having some international athletes is beneficial to the American athletes and the team, creating friendships and learning about another culture is invaluable and can add to the chemistry of the team and it's success.

The funny thing is that the coaches who are only bringing in and paying for foreign athletes to win are not looked upon with a lot of respect from those coaches who do put in the work and log countless hours in trying to achieve success with lesser talented and not "turn key" athletes who already have a training plan and know what they're doing. The word is out of who these coaches are, it's not hard to figure out when you see the results of this past weekend's X-C races. It reminds me of the days of UTEP and WSU back in the late 70's early 80's when the Kenyan invasion first hit the NCAA.

literally. their first acc xc title was like half international.

Aaron Las Heras - Spain

Luke Tewalt - American

Thomas Vanoppen - Belgium

Zach Facioni - Australia

Joaquin Martinez De Pinillos - American

Ben Mitchell - American

Rynard Swanepoel - South African

and only 1/3 of those guys is from North Carolina. Their current top 7 has 3 international athletes on it.

Rita if you spent more time focused on your own team than other teams maybe they’d be able to catch up to the Africans. Look at Grace Hartman and Parker Valby

Whoevers the coach at MSU has 0 foreigners, 9th at Gans creek

I wish Ryan the best, he is a great coach. I wish ASU would have had the courage to give him the program before he left.

Lipscomb has a handful of Australians on the team

Wake has 20 men on their roster including 16 Americans and one each from Scotland, England, Germany and Australia.

I don't believe it has anything to do with WHERE a runner is from. It's the AGE of many of the runners. It's also the NUMBER of runners on a team. If a team has 6 of their 17 runners from a foreign country, that raises a red flag. Yes I just said it doesn't matter where they're from, so let me expand. Many of these foreign countries are under scrutiny for banned substances. Many countries do not have accurate documentation and a lot of these runners ages are in question. Those who have accurately recorded their ages and they come in almost 30 and already have 10 years or professional/semi professional running under their belts, it just isn't fair - Physiology proves that. I'm for age restrictions, limits of the number of foreign runners, and if there isn't concrete documentation, they don't qualify. There also needs to be educational requirements. Since schools no longer require an ACT, the foreign runners have flooded into the US. An American who scores high on the SAT gets denied while someone who reads and writes at a 5th grade level gets entry. There's a lot of issues and it's unfortunate that some college coaches are turning their backs on their own country.

"Had Americans be All-American"....

Should one be "All-American" if they're from.... Kenya?

Top 20 "Americans" can be "All-American" and the top 10 foreigners can be "All-NCAA".

Thoughts???

Thanks for the info cale wallace/ former Iowa state runner.

Your entire roster who races now on the men’s team comes from Africa. I suppose I’m forgetting Said Mechaal (Spain) from last year.

what if I told you the ncaa doesn't revolve around running

Boo Hoo, nobody likes me or my campus. Nobody wants to come here. Cop-out! Excuse to take the ez way out. Seems like Iowa State has had a pretty good football program the past few years. Basketball program has made some NCAA runs also. Build a program and the kids will come. When they see a coach repeatedly go out and have 28 year old flown in a week after classes have started only to keep bumping American kids down to the B races, then they've forged their own reputation. Reap what you sow.

They're not 28 years old. That's the main contention.

If you're looking D3, Ryan Chapman at Wartburg is the development guy for male runners. They look and operate like a D1 mid major with mostly in-state kids.

Furman finished 17th at XC nationals with 7 American runners, and only one guy who broke 9 minutes for 3200 in high school and he was a true freshman.

Whoever downvoted this clearly doesn't know ball, Wartburg/Wisco LaCrosse + MIT/CMS women would compete with most d1 mid majors