Valby not listed on USATF entries: Update - She's officially OUT of the meet

Right?? Ha. Someone else mentioned how her results at U.S. Trials and the Olympics are proof she can compete at this level. And that's correct, but let's not forget the training that got her to that level - it was the training she was doing at UF. Sometimes, it's not worth fixing what ain't broke.

* for her final 12 months is more accurate. Injured during 2023 Indoors, first (of 6 in total) title Outdoor 2023, last Outdoor 2024.

Parker Valby likely is using the excuse of being injured while she barks up the tree to get gigs in L.A. like so many phenoms while they are young and pretty.

I hope she lands a commercial like the USC Sprint kid did a few years ago.

When Valby turned pro, my first thought was that she would be forced to increase her mileage, stop using the incredible ARC trainer, and become injured. The ARC trainer is not an "elliptical" or your basic "cross trainer". It is a gut wrenching, high intensity, power tool that can help anyone, without compromising your needed running form. As someone who trains people on the ARC, I could tell immediately, during Valby's senior XC season, that it was a part of her training.

Hopefully Parker will be healthy by August. Does that mean she’ll run cross country? In her interview earlier in the year, she said she wants to/will be running cross country. USA finals held in Portland Oregon and the World Cross Country Championships (if she makes it) would be right in her backyard in Tallahassee Florida, same course she ran on in 2021 NCAA cross country nationals!

I agree with your post...kind of. Yes, you will see more and more athletes "try to go pro", and unless you're getting a solid multi year shoe contract and or serious NIL money many of these athletes will soon see how difficult it is to be a pro runner. Collegiate athletics is no joke, and the coaches are responsible for developing these athletes to be successful so as the program is successful. There is NO ROOM for complacency, it's dog eat dog. If athletes want o b!tch and moan about the rigors of early morning practices, balancing academics and social life, while at the same time having to run well and think it's easier on the pro side you've got another thing comin' (Judas Priest). Is college for every athlete? of course not, but the odds of developing and growing as a young athlete are WAY BETTER in college then being pro.

I find it both baffling and disappointing that NB was willing to pay Valby as much as they did, especially given her consistent and publicly documented injury history in college. No one could have honestly believed she would be able to train consistently enough to be competitive on a USA or world level. I'm not saying she isn't talented (clearly he's a massive talent), and she did make the Paris games, but NB paid for, at least based on traditional logic, ongoing excellence, and team-making from Valby.

What I'm now realizing is that image matters as much, IF NOT MORE to many of these brands than results do. NB willingly paid for Valby's appearance as much as they did for her potential results. Sort of a sad reality given that the purpose of our sport on the elite level is to race and compete well.

Hope Parker's Florida McMansion and the brand new Range Rover are softening the disappointment of having raced once in the last 11 months...

The Olys aren't til 2028. There's nothing until then worth competing at. Only insigificant training meetings. Give her time to do auditions, acting classes, etc. in L.A. She's the Katy Perry of T&F.

This is an off season. No one cares who makes podium to Worlds. The key is USA Trials in 2028. Valby will probably be there along with others that are young and some we don’t even know about yet. Meanwhile all those making podium this year for the most part, esp 5K will be retired.

This is not an off season? Next year is an off season when there isn't a worlds. There is a worlds in Tokyo this year.

Not so fast, my friend!

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Wrong. There was just an extra thread here about silent bans, including well documented examples. And by definition, most silent bans remain silent aka hidden.

She has missed more meets on her first year than Brady missed in all those NFL seasons and people hacked him

Katy Perry is one of the most despised figures in pop culture right now.

Silent or delayed ban isn’t out of the question, based on who her coach at FL was, but she could also be just injured like many predicted she would be if forced to run a normal amt of mileage.

Either way, her pro career poof.

Rumor is she is provisionally suspended

Yes, it is.

Hello, mr. Conspiracy theorist!