MIAC 2025 XC

Am I correct in seeing that St. Olaf is allowing a Carleton student to race a wheelchair race after the Rickses would not allow this student to join the team? That’s some good Northfield drama. I’m already liking how Olaf runs their meets with Pattie in charge.

It also looks like she made the new men’s coach change his absurd 4 x 100 seed time.

Their men’s basketball coach is retiring. The story notably allows comments on Instagram. That should tell you all you need to know about his departure regardless of whether is was on his own accord or not.

This forum is why comments were locked on the post. The ole alumni have showed nothing but love to power since his departure, just look at Andrew Skemp's Instagram. Something urgent must have come up because coaches don't just up and leave right after having an athlete run a national championship caliber time.

Huh. Interesting.

Oles, what does the new coach do better?

How’s recruiting going?

Everything, including the act of running.

Best class in the last five years. Dynasty continues.

Is this report looming at actual 2026 results? The only saving hope is that Power is no longer coaching the Oles and someone in that group may improve. Based on what I’ve seen from the the Johnnies this Spring, I don’t think that anyone can touch them.

I have never seen anyone run the exact same splits for each lap of an 800 like Indy did today. Also, props to the one man steeple today. Didn’t know you could run a race with only one person. Can’t imagine doing that by yourself is fun.

what have you seen that gives you this impression?

Any updates? I'm emotionally invested now.

No new info. Another round of emails sent to the coaches last week with no replies. We're not in the midwest so dropping in at last weekend's meet wasn't really an option. Going to blast a few more emails out this week and include a few others (I don't think he sent anything to the AD yet) and cross fingers. I didn't want to hijack this thread but I'll make sure to let everyone know how it ends if people are in fact interested.

I spent 20 minutes reading this thread and it’s clear you have a strong argument or complaint you should take to the admin. John Waters is the one to email. He is the assistant AD the XC coaches report to. He seems to have a lot of power, just no more Coach Power.

Tell him the original coach made an offer of a roster spot and you consider that a verbal contract and expect follow-up within two business days. And also make sure he knows Coach Power didn’t communicate on the way out. That will go in his permanent employment file, which is important from a Human Resources standpoint. Don’t let staffing issues get in the way of your sons right to run a sport where everyone is a walk-on and their shouldn’t be any gatekeeping.

The advice is greatly appreciated. We didn't really meet any of the other coaches or admin when we were there outside of a few handshakes, and Coach Kopnick was sick with the flu I believe, so it's made it difficult to know who to reach out to without any established relationships past Power.

In non Olaf coach fetish related news, Lars Dewall ran a 2:12:30 at Boston which I think puts him just seconds behind MO’s CIM time. Rewriting that all time MIAC marathon list.

Would be pretty cool to see Lars match up with Mo. He's a bit younger, but not much. Both ran those on "fast courses" and days the event ran fast. CIM is also point to point and is generally considered faster. Maybe they'll both run Chicago or New York!

Any truth to the rumor that power signed a D1 transfer before leaving? That might be why you don’t have a spot.

Im curious to see if the new roster limits at the D1 level can impact the MIAC. A dissatisfied La Crosse student who doesn’t make their roster after they bring in more transfers could make a huge impact for a team like Gustavus. Even the rumored Ole transfer the Gusties think they’re getting could make the team a top three MIAC team in the next two years.

Both ran CIM… Lars ~2:14:30 to Mo ~2:12:28 I think.

Pretty sure Mo is going to Grandmas but maybe they race this fall. MDE has been sending a crew to NYC after getting snubbed by Chicago a few years back. (Also why I think they’ve avoided the Shamrock 8k recently)

Who is the Ole transferring out? They have so many that will never make the travel squad, I’m surprised more don’t transfer.

The Oles do have a 800 transfer that will be on the roster next Fall that ran 1:53. Another nice recruiting job by Coach Kopnick.

Now that Phil's recruits are graduating. Powe- I mean Kopnick is in the hot seat, and I fully expect the alumni to be voicing a change. The Edina coach has been literally wasting away waiting by his home phone for years now for the call ?? /s