She definitely got out hard. Looked like she's not afraid to go out with the leaders.
She definitely got out hard. Looked like she's not afraid to go out with the leaders.
I wonder why they are not running her unattached? A red shirt seems like an obvious move coming back from injury?
Looks like she was with the top group of BYU runners until right before 2mi and bonked hard. Let's hope she's okay and it was just a bad day
The video FastTuohy linked showed Hutchins barely crossing the finish line and collapsing on the ground. Two people had to help her up and she looked like she was in terrible pain. She couldn’t even walk by herself after being helped up.
Diljeet Taylor just wasted an entire year of her eligibility by not having her redshirt.
Congrats coach.
Maybe you're missing part of the puzzle? I'm guessing there's a lot more to the story than we know.
You'd think people would be more cautious when criticizing the most successful, talented women's XC coach in the country.
NCAA does have a thing called medical redshirt! I mean the NCAA is not made up of idiots, they allow people who get injured early in the year to redshirt and get back the year!
So the issue here has nothing to do with lost eligibility, rather the big thing is about whether she was getting strong advice not to overdo it and not worry about first race performance but think about the long-term big picture
Dudek is another runner who started off too fast and now has been dealing with injuries... It's kind of funny no one mentions that... she was looking like one of the best runners in college for a couple of months there...
But then again who knows it could have just been a cramp or something I mean hopefully she wouldn't keep running in a meaningless first season race if it was a real injury
Jenna ran her first race for BYU (and it seems her first race since XC Junior year in High School!!!!) on 9/26/22. She had a disastrous first race at the Country Jamboree in Oklahoma (where many of the top running college teams are invited). She ran a 26 minute 6K and finished almost last out of 215 runners. Reminder- at 16 she ran a 15:34 for a National 5K record, Runninglane National Champ, course record. If she doesn't improve in the next 2 races, she is going to be kicked off the BYU team. Also- very fishy she finished public High School 1 semester early. Jenna made a HUGE mistake going to BYU- being in the <1% of non-Mormon students. Her teammates are much older, Mormon, and several are married. I don't know if she was recruited by Stanford, but she should have gone there, just for the academics (5% acceptance rate), because seems like Jenna's running career is over before it really began-- just like Malibu's Claudia Lane (2 time Footlocker National Champ in 2016 and 2017). Remember Amber Trotter, Melody Fairchild, Sarah Baxter? At least Claudia chose Dartmouth, an Ivy League school, because running wasn't in her heart anymore, she was pretty much done, had a horrible running form, but had the grit to go to Dartmouth! Good choice.
You do know that MANY High School girls peak at age 15/16 and then crash and burn. There is an infamous New York Times article about this,
America’s Next Great Running Hope, and One of the Cruelest Twists in Youth Sports - The New York Times (nytimes.com). Look at Amber Trotter, Sarah Baxter, Melody Fairchild- some of the greatest High School girls of all time, and disasters in college. Of course, you have Mary Cain, probably in the top 3 greatest High School girl track and XC runners in history, 800-10,000 meters. Hopefully Ventura's Sadie Engelhart can beat this curse, like Tuohy did!
Where is the link to this?
I thought I read where she was working out with the top group but something just has not gone well in the first 2 races. Her last 1 K at OSU was close to 9:00.
That means she walked the last K. She was either unprepared for, or did not execute to plan, her first race, which sometimes happens. But to repeat that same mistake just two weeks later suggests she and Coach Taylor are not communicating very well.