UO women track athletes alleging they felt victimized by the program's data-driven approach to weight and body fat percentage

ianove wrote:

I'm so sick of the boys on here trying to defend this blatantly terrible coaching strategy.

Y'all are fixated on whether or not it is abusive. The question should be; does this strategy work? Does it equate to success? In recent years, I'd honestly have to say no.

Yeah aside from a few exceptions (Hocker, Teare), the UO program has been pretty mediocre as a whole recently, especially the women's side.

This "data-driven" approach obviously isn't working.

giving athletes information is a good thing. buy you have to be careful of the way pressure and expectations are presented.

I should be very clear that if you are putting in the work and eating healthy, you should not be taking extreme measures to hit targets.

That's not how it works. You'll get a 25% ride to Oregon, and live in constant fear of losing that if your performance slips.

Manbearpig15 wrote:

Give me a full ride to Oregon. You weigh and measure any time you want.

I’d say the USA could use a nationwide barrage of DEXA scans. You people are like dinosaurs walking the earth again.

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Oregon doing something slimy? I'm shocked.

Makes me wonder if Emma Abrahamson was involved at all. She has spoken a ton about her body image struggles and dysmenorrhea during and after being at Oregon. And she basically then had to go through puberty after college. I remember watching one of her what I eat a day videos while she was at Oregon and her lunch was basically a bowl of frozen fruit. I feel like she is a very prominent case study here

The men's team won indoor nationals and got 2nd at outdoor and had 3 other olympians not named Cole Hocker.

Actually with most on track team its a history of you come here for say "25% and we will give you more if you achieve X" but once you achieve X they actually cut you because you fail your impossible to meet DEXA goal and are humiliated into submissiveness. It was always a lie that a bigger scholarship was forthcoming with greater performances. Ask many former Ducks and this is the prevailing policy to max scholarships. Those on here defending this are either Robert or his lackies or males always on tiny schollies whining about women getting any money and thinking that means they must suffer abuse from a male coach to keep their money.

Agreed. Emma was one of the first ones I thought of.

So everything in that article is the exact philosophy the Powell’s have at Washington and they approach all of this the same exact way and did at Oregon also. It will be unfortunate if they come out of this clean and don’t change how they do business.

Imagine the LRC outcry if the situation were reversed?

"Hey, Cody. Thanks for dropping by to talk about your latest weigh in and blood values. Your testosterone fell below what the coaching staff feels is a statistically acceptable level for performance and you have packed on three pounds since last month. While your times have been good, I have also noticed that when you run shirtless, your abs are not as defined as they should be. Are you drinking beers and gobbling junk food with students outside of the athletic program? Look, we produce Olympians and NCAA champions here and I don't want my record tainted by mediocrity. I got walk-ons that'll crawl through broken glass for a plane ticket to Terre Haute and a pair of Vaporflys. You want to be a pro, right? Nike clubs don't sign chubs! If you play your cards right, I can persuade our sugar daddies in Beaverton to make your pro dreams possible."

"I need you to do the following: see the team nutritionist and she will provide you an eating plan that I want followed to the letter. Get over this stupid vege...pesca..whatevertarian thing you started and start downing some red meat like the football guys do. If you are flogging the...you know, stop it! If you got a girlfriend, don't be giving her the business until after the season. If you are not in practice or in class, my eyes and ears around this place better find you in the weight room or on a spin bike. Nobody better see you gorging yourself at Track Town Pizza or getting hammered at Wild Duck, am I clear? I get over 100 e-mails and recruit forms a week from here and overseas with kids, some faster than you were in high school, begging me to take a look at them. Hell, there's an 18 year old Aussie kid that already runs 1:46 / 3:36 / 13:48 that would score me more points that you do and he'll come here for book money. Now, get your flabby 125 pound butt out of my sight and that scale better read 122 by this time next week."

But, let's support the coach and the institution because this is clearly just made up by a handful of women looking for attention and victim cred.

sleazazar wrote:

Oregon doing something slimy? I'm shocked.

How do they ever lose a meet? Worst coaching ever - they do the least with the most. Best dope, highest paid runners, no corner too small to cut, no area ever too gray, every championship meet a home meet.

Kvothe wrote:

College sports are not pro sports and should not be treated as such, even for athletes who could go pro. If the athletes want to train like pros that is on them. Things like weight, goals, performance should be individualized and set by the athlete. Good on these athletes for sticking up for themselves. The coaches should have treated it like a college sport and not like they're going to win the olympics.

College athletes are getting paid (with scholarships). Therefore, in a sense, it IS pro.

At this level, they need to be treated firmly.

All I hear is a bunch of entitled crybabies going off.

You didn't disprove the point.

Longtime UO womens coach Tom Heinonen was the king of body shaming. I though when he retired things would change. Nope, they just elevated the problem to the extreme.

Maybe these idiots should realize that college athletes is an enhancement too the college experience, not the end all.

Cool story.

And where did they place at XC Nattys last season?