I’m still undecided on whether or not Dathan is as good of a coach as people give him credit for. Klecker, Monson and Hoare are immensely talented. So is Beamish. Beamish had a few good runs indoors but has been up and down. Perhaps that is due to his low training volume and injury history. Hurta is killing it as well.
Villareal was chronically injured and recently retired. Cardama Baez has struggled a bit as well. McDonald is still coming back from injuries but is also immensely talented and it remains to be seen what form he’ll return to (he seems fit and will likely PR at the end of the season, though). The rest of the women’s team struggled last year and a few of them left the team.
What Jerry has done with some athletes is pretty crazy. Fraser running 14:48 indoors, Kincaid sub-13 and U.S. champ. Ritz hasn’t done anything like that yet. Ritz has, however, coaches athletes from an 800 specialist to the 10,000m runners. Jerry’s athletes that have run fast 8’s and 15’s were just a result of his normal training whereas Ritz customizes the training more.
It’ll be interesting to see how Dathan does with future athletes.
Nice to see this club in Europe and on the diamond league circuit.
“This club” OAC is Switzerland based. It makes sense that OAC would want their sponsored athletes racing in Europe.
Could be wrong but my guess is these three athletes will only run one event at Worlds and therefore the travel back and forth isn’t a big deal given they may not race USA’s in the 5k. Maybe Monson will since the women’s 5k won’t be so tightly contested as the men’s. Hoare doesn’t have the same constraints as the Americans.
What Jerry has done with some athletes is pretty crazy. Fraser running 14:48 indoors, Kincaid sub-13 and U.S. champ. Ritz hasn’t done anything like that yet.
To be fair, Monson ran 14:31 today and Klecker ran 13:02 (and is the US 10,000m champ to boot). Pretty massive improvement from both considering they only have 1 NCAA title between them.
Yes. I'd say he's a slight medal favourite at this point. He's very well-suited to this era of 1500 running that goes hard from the gun.
Big respect to OAC. I love that they're out there racing and getting results. 3rd in a DL is a damn sight more impressive than first place on some local high school track TT
I’m still undecided on whether or not Dathan is as good of a coach as people give him credit for. Klecker, Monson and Hoare are immensely talented. So is Beamish. Beamish had a few good runs indoors but has been up and down. Perhaps that is due to his low training volume and injury history. Hurta is killing it as well.
Villareal was chronically injured and recently retired. Cardama Baez has struggled a bit as well. McDonald is still coming back from injuries but is also immensely talented and it remains to be seen what form he’ll return to (he seems fit and will likely PR at the end of the season, though). The rest of the women’s team struggled last year and a few of them left the team.
What Jerry has done with some athletes is pretty crazy. Fraser running 14:48 indoors, Kincaid sub-13 and U.S. champ. Ritz hasn’t done anything like that yet. Ritz has, however, coaches athletes from an 800 specialist to the 10,000m runners. Jerry’s athletes that have run fast 8’s and 15’s were just a result of his normal training whereas Ritz customizes the training more.
It’ll be interesting to see how Dathan does with future athletes.
Part of being a good coach is that good runners want to join your team so that they can be coached by you.
I can't remember anyone ever saying that they thought Dathan was a bad person, or difficult to deal with, or inflexible in his coaching, or anything like that. I've only talked to Dathan briefly a few times at meets, but he seems like a likable person.
On the other hand, plenty of people have said negative things about Jerry and Shalane and how they coach, especially regarding their one size fits all style.
I think what OAC is doing is great, and Dathan has certainly had a promising start to his coaching career.
BTC seems to be the Yankees of American Running - people hate them for the perception of being over-resourced amongst other reasons (don't need to derail the thread with SH talk, although I'm sure others will).
However I think it's important to acknowledge regardless of what you think of BTCs racing schedule etc., that their athletes are making Olympic/WC finals, and are winning medals on the global stage. If that is the end goal of any athletes career (and why wouldn't it be?) - then Jerry is succeeding. Dathan will hopefully go on to have similar success - but people seem to forget that Jerry and his athletes won multiple medals in Tokyo.
I’m still undecided on whether or not Dathan is as good of a coach as people give him credit for. Klecker, Monson and Hoare are immensely talented. So is Beamish. Beamish had a few good runs indoors but has been up and down. Perhaps that is due to his low training volume and injury history. Hurta is killing it as well.
Villareal was chronically injured and recently retired. Cardama Baez has struggled a bit as well. McDonald is still coming back from injuries but is also immensely talented and it remains to be seen what form he’ll return to (he seems fit and will likely PR at the end of the season, though). The rest of the women’s team struggled last year and a few of them left the team.
What Jerry has done with some athletes is pretty crazy. Fraser running 14:48 indoors, Kincaid sub-13 and U.S. champ. Ritz hasn’t done anything like that yet. Ritz has, however, coaches athletes from an 800 specialist to the 10,000m runners. Jerry’s athletes that have run fast 8’s and 15’s were just a result of his normal training whereas Ritz customizes the training more.
It’ll be interesting to see how Dathan does with future athletes.
Nico Young and Ceili McCabe would be interesting challenges for Ritz.
I’m still undecided on whether or not Dathan is as good of a coach as people give him credit for. Klecker, Monson and Hoare are immensely talented. So is Beamish. Beamish had a few good runs indoors but has been up and down. Perhaps that is due to his low training volume and injury history. Hurta is killing it as well.
Villareal was chronically injured and recently retired. Cardama Baez has struggled a bit as well. McDonald is still coming back from injuries but is also immensely talented and it remains to be seen what form he’ll return to (he seems fit and will likely PR at the end of the season, though). The rest of the women’s team struggled last year and a few of them left the team.
What Jerry has done with some athletes is pretty crazy. Fraser running 14:48 indoors, Kincaid sub-13 and U.S. champ. Ritz hasn’t done anything like that yet. Ritz has, however, coaches athletes from an 800 specialist to the 10,000m runners. Jerry’s athletes that have run fast 8’s and 15’s were just a result of his normal training whereas Ritz customizes the training more.
It’ll be interesting to see how Dathan does with future athletes.
Nico Young and Ceili McCabe would be interesting challenges for Ritz.
Has OAC signed any males since they first started 2 years ago? Curious if they try to expand with this years class.