Top up and coming D1 distance coaches

Here some advice... don't ever encourage a HS athlete to pick a school simply because they like a young coach. Good young coaches move on, with frequency. Chances are the 27yr old coach recruiting an athlete will be burned out or off to somewhere else before a recruiting class hits their junior year.

Considering the coach in a program is fine, but the school has to fit. Unless the coach is truly established at a school (like 10+years), you can't count on them sticking around.

Rocky Capello currently @ Louisiana Lafayette formerly at Southeastern Louisiana.

Took a no name southeastern distance program and won the SOUTHLAND by a long shot with only two whole distance scholarships. If that dosent show you good coaching idk what does …

Coached all American Shea foster to times of

(5k) 13:32.38 , 22:41.2 (8k), 4:03 mile.

He also had athletes at Southeastern with crazy progressions In there times om tfrrs if you go look at athletes he coached such as Adam Cortez , Grant Ocallaghan, Thomas Diagle , Jacob meek ,.

This will be his first year at Louisiana Lafayette where he looks to have a lot of freshman talent that should be interesting to watch in the upcoming season and years

OldSub20 wrote:

Title says it all. Who are some of the new crop of up and coming D1 distance coaches out there? Who will be the men/women to replace the big name coaches when they decide to retire from the sport?

Diljeet Taylor.

Or has she already arrived? She's been at BYU for a few years now and just recently got a promotion.

honest abel... wrote:

Let's be honest here folks, the up and coming distance coach will be the coach who has the most scholarships dedicated to distance runners. The schools who focus on distance are the best distance schools.

Remember Mike Smith at Georgetown, just another guy (and they are a distance focused school), he goes to the national champ xc program and he is the next great coach. Overnight success!

Athletes make coaches look good. Guys hate to hear that, but it is what it is.

You have it backwards. Coaches make the athletes. So many great athletes get destroyed by a bad coaching.

Runleft37 wrote:

Rocky Capello currently @ Louisiana Lafayette formerly at Southeastern Louisiana.

Took a no name southeastern distance program and won the SOUTHLAND by a long shot with only two whole distance scholarships. If that dosent show you good coaching idk what does …

Coached all American Shea foster to times of

(5k) 13:32.38 , 22:41.2 (8k), 4:03 mile.

He also had athletes at Southeastern with crazy progressions In there times om tfrrs if you go look at athletes he coached such as Adam Cortez , Grant Ocallaghan, Thomas Diagle , Jacob meek ,.

This will be his first year at Louisiana Lafayette where he looks to have a lot of freshman talent that should be interesting to watch in the upcoming season and years

This is one of those SELA runners mentioned no doubt

Cougar Coach wrote:

OldSub20 wrote:

Title says it all. Who are some of the new crop of up and coming D1 distance coaches out there? Who will be the men/women to replace the big name coaches when they decide to retire from the sport?

Diljeet Taylor.

Or has she already arrived? She's been at BYU for a few years now and just recently got a promotion.

Already arrived and the rocky guy mentioned before is too old for this he’s a volunteer he’s not going to further his coaching career besides local schools

We just went through the recruiting process with our kid and were really impressed with some of the coaches our kid met with. These are the coaches that really seemed to care about the athletes and were working hard to create a positive team culture as apart of their vision for success. Happy to pass this info along for your high school athletes in no particular order:

*Eastern Michigan - Mark Rinker (Coach cares deeply about his athletes and he's building a team culture with strong family-feel. Men ranked 7th in Great Lakes Region and just won MAC conference title.)

*Cal State Fullerton - Alex Tebbe (Very cool and supportive coach. Men ranked 15th in West Region and top male runner just won conference in 23:34 and top 5 all under 25 minutes for 8K. Top female won also and women got 2nd.)

*Portland State - Josh Seitz (Coach has infectious positivity and good humor. Team is transitioning to distance only focus. Men ranked 13th in the West Region. Teams ran well at conference in Big Sky)

*George Washington University - Samantha Nadel (She is actually the Asst. Coach in charge of recruiting, but we were really impressed with her. She comes from UNC and seems to be bringing that experience to GW. Since she got there they went from unranked to both men and women being ranked in the Mid-Atlantic Region.

Hope this helps! We spoke to a lot of coaches but these few really stood out as being unique in their focus on team culture and vision for their teams. We did speak to some Power 5 coaches, but this list speaks to your inquiry of "up-and-coming".

That is a pretty wide recruiting spectrum for 2nd tier academic schools.

I would not recommend any of those programs to anyone outside the in-state area for two reasons. Those schools are not worth the out of state tuition price tag, and those young and energetic coaches are going to jump at the first $45k offer they get somewhere else.

He is talking about coaches, not about their schools you bottom-barrel IQ degenerate. Why the need to insult him or his son’s choice in a thread about coaches specifically? They aren’t the Stanfords of the world, but this thread isn’t about that, is it? It’s a celebration of who we are impressed with, not what we are scoffing at.

Anyways, looking past this clown, I think Emma Peterson (UC Davis) is a great choice if you have a daughter interested in running. She has done good things quickly there.

Adam Tribble from CBU is doing a good job. Yeah he has mostly international talent, but a ton of groups do that without success. 15 points at their conference champs and will be at NCAAs potentially this year.

Surprised Corbin Talley doesn’t get more respect either. Weber State is starting to return to form like they used to be. Great individual performances last year in track.

New Alabama assistants and Chris Solinsky are crushing the recruiting game as well.