The U of U has four incoming distance transfers: Keelah Barger (Arizona), Emily Venters (Boise St./Colorado), Hannah Butler (Brown) and Lauren Peterson (Furman). In the past, they've picked up a serendipitous transfer here or there, but this looks more like a new recruiting strategy. Anyone have any insights?
No specific info about the team but lots of teams this year a coming up on recruits with all the weird covid stuff. Kids wanting to move closer to home, kids that don’t like a program and only had a year left now have 2 years of eligibility, kids that were never planning on grad school now have a full year of eligibility or more and if they are good and can go someplace for free (many legit women can) why not do it.
Transfers will be a big part of recruiting for the next year or two.
Utefan wrote:
The U of U has four incoming distance transfers: Keelah Barger (Arizona), Emily Venters (Boise St./Colorado), Hannah Butler (Brown) and Lauren Peterson (Furman). In the past, they've picked up a serendipitous transfer here or there, but this looks more like a new recruiting strategy. Anyone have any insights?
Three of them ran well tonite (at least) in their dominating win at Dellinger over Colorado St and Arkansas
https://live.athletictiming.net/meets/10994/xc-events/377094/resultsCSU beats 4 teams ranked above them but loses to unranked Utah.
https://billdellingerinvite.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=18&do=videos&video_id=310710Utefan wrote:
The U of U has four incoming distance transfers: Keelah Barger (Arizona), Emily Venters (Boise St./Colorado), Hannah Butler (Brown) and Lauren Peterson (Furman). In the past, they've picked up a serendipitous transfer here or there, but this looks more like a new recruiting strategy. Anyone have any insights?
Doug Binder of Dyestat interviewed Ariel Keklak (Johns Hopkins Alum) 4th Place, Emily Venters (Colorado Alum) 5th Place, Simone Plourde (BYU Alum) 6th Place Women's 6,000m - Oregon Bill Dellinger Cross Country Invitational 2021.
Utah women will definitely be a team to watch this year. An 18 second 1-5 spread at Dellinger is very impressive.
Plourde won the 1500 at Pac-12's this weekend. Looked happy. I wonder why she transferred from BYU??
New recruit is Kyla Martin - 2.07/ 4.24 1500 as a HS Jnr. Her Snr season still unfolding.
With Vringer at 4.18 and Plourde at 4.09 (all three are Canadian) should be on the rise next year. Presume Venters is done eligibility?
Pac 12 elite girl runners in mid 20’s Crazy how old people are now. Has it always been this way?
Pac12\'s wrote:
Plourde won the 1500 at Pac-12's this weekend. Looked happy. I wonder why she transferred from BYU??
Yeah I don’t know. Why would a French girl transfer out of an all Mormon school in the United States. Seems strange.
Is Plourde returning? She has remaining eligibility, but she graduated and I can see her wanting focus on trying to make the Canadian Olympic team in ‘24 rather than on the NCAAs.
Truedat wrote:
Pac 12 elite girl runners in mid 20’s Crazy how old people are now. Has it always been this way?
no its a covid thing with the free year everyone got. Should cycle out in the next 2 years as people finishing their sophomore seasons right now are the first that dont get the covid year.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?