hannah cunliffe goes pro....drops out of school

She should just do her degree online. I don't know about Oregon, but Oregon State has a lot of options. She could take a class at a time. No stress.

Once girls reach a certain age the modelling jobs and acting gigs start to dry up. Hannah has to take the money while she can get it. Good choice.

There is some truth in this frontier gibberish.

However, you can't judge a person from their instagram, at least in this case. Millions of girls her age have posted similar or more revealing shots on instagram. PG at best.

She's worked hard to have a great body. She's probably focusing on that rather than her mind currently because her body can do things that 99.99% of her peers can't, but maybe that isn't the same truth for her mind. That's a smart decision in my book, to monetize her best attributes whether that's in track, fitness modeling, pro wrestling, or whatever she can do with it. There's no clock ticking on her brains, but there certainly is one on her looks and athletic ability. If her family has got it together they will help her to put some money away to finish and further her education. Or she'll marry an NFL or NBA guy and be set for life.

I've stood next to her and she's no waif like Gardner. She's built very powerfully. She could end up an action star or stunt double for a franchise like wonder woman or vikings or GoT.

She's very hot and happens to be a white sprinter with a NCAA 60m record on her belt. Thats very marketable these days. She will do fine in life whether she finishes school right now or not. Get paid while you can. Track money won't be around forever. Now someone please post some of these pics I'm hearing about!

probably decided its better to be paid to pull a hammie

And who knows how close she is to graduation. She may be an online course away

I've watched her interviews after races. She doesn't strike as me as being very bright.

I do think she seems more arrogant than talented but at her level that will likely serve her well.

The whole cryptic thing about how she was or was not injured at the end of the ncaa season was lame.

I can see her being an indoor 60m indoor world champion. I see her as an outside shot outdoors in 100m but will make relay teams.

Money wise she will likely go the Kardashian route with her Instagram and twitter which will likely get her more cash than athletes more talented than she is.

notsmart wrote:

okay i get the pro part....but why not finish school like raevyn is doing??!?!??!!?

Why spend a few months finishing your degree that can open door to jobs for the rest of your life when you can go pro and have an 8 year sprinter career? It'd be preposterous to delay a few months the opportunity to barely cover your expenses as a pro (if the stars align)

This is such a mushy thread. Yuck! All of you are obviously in love with this girl.

Judging by all of you who have specifically mentioned her instagram numbers, you have no idea how people make money off instagram or more importantly how engaged those followers are to her.

Here's a little secret. People like Hannah have several layers of their social media presence (snapchat, etc) where she randomly follows people, they get a notification and will follow back. When they follow back, Hannah unfollows (to keep her number down) and make it seem like the followers sought her out rather than the other way around. That 54k is weak, very weak, and I would be most are 16-22 year old males who found her attractive enough to follow but have no idea who she is.

I can't speak to how the algorithms work but I know I have several people I follow on instagram that are way larger "influencers" than Hannah and I never see their posts. Advertisers realize this and know that only a limited few accounts actually have a ROI. Typically someone who is "instafamous" will get free products as opposed to actual cash money for endorsements along with a code to use at checkout or a bitly link to see if the sponsored post actually had influence on the sales. After a month of track the advertiser realizes that it had little influence and they don't use that person again.

Lots of gorgeous girls take their looks and use it only for themselves. I know Hannah will use her looks and speed in Los Angeles to help others in need, benefit the poor and abused, and help women.

Victor Hefeweisen wrote:

USAUSA wrote:

Brazzers track club

This needs to happen.

yes a nice 20 min hot vid of all sorts of positions with a HUGE money shot and booom she makes a sweet couple million

HC suffered a major recurrence of her hamstring injury in early November. That was the last time she was training with the UO team. Her dad and UO coaches at odds with each other. Mike teaches some mechanical issues that UO was trying to correct and each was blaming the other for injury issues. Obviously UO spring success under Curtis Taylor is beyond reproach but HC's dad is a Lavar Ball wanna-be and thinks he can coach his daughter better. Plus me thinks with her season approaching and being injured they felt pressure to grab money before it becomes obvious she is not racing due to this injury.

Its doubtful Nike is going to agree with this view and that will greatly diminish her value. But Nike's prime younger pro coach, Dennis Mitchell was outed as the drug coach he has always been. If she agrees to go to LA with Smith or Kersee then she might get a decent deal but otherwise she is going to be small change because of her injury issues.

Well in her dad's defense, she wasn't injured until she got to Oregon.

OTOH they got her under 11.00 before she broke.

No actually she was injured a lot in high school

If you don't mind me asking what was the "mechanical issue" that led to the disagreement?

realfacts wrote:

A couple thoughts on this:

1) With all due respect, transferring is the Cunliffe family game. Sam Cunliffe played high school basketball for at least three different high schools, and transferred from Arizona State to Kansas after just 10 games his freshman season (his stated reason for that had to do with being a part of a program in contention for the national championship, which means that he guessed wrong ;) ).

I wonder what he's thinking of the transfer now. He went from starting every game he played at Arizona State to riding the pine at Kansas. He's averaging 7 minutes a game now a 2.3 ppg.

rojo wrote:

I wonder what he's thinking of the transfer now. He went from starting every game he played at Arizona State to riding the pine at Kansas. He's averaging 7 minutes a game now a 2.3 ppg.

He transferred because he and Hurley didn't see eye to eye. He's a redshirt sophomore who could increase his PT over the next couple of seasons. He's not the first player to transfer out of a situation such as this even if it cuts down on PT.

Someone should tell her that Adidas will not appreciate her still wearing Nike

She posted snaps today doing that.

Let’s not forget what happen to James Harden.

She ran her first open race as a pro in Grenada, and won against a middling field in 11.4x +0.5. Many of the times at the meet seemed on the slow side, in any case, a "W".

She claimed in an interview that training with her dad has cleared up her injury issues. One thought I had was that if she was competing in training with other sprinters at UO, that was part of the problem. If she is solo it might reduce the stress.