Doug Soles coaches Herriman UT now

5 in the top 10*

Doug has a son on the team too

Excellent, he should have them all burned out, disgruntled and injured just in time for their senior years.

Seems like it’s starting already.

You should see how many people were sitting out for the first meet due to an injury.

And one of the varsity guys didn’t finish the race. Only 6 listed in the results.

Some people who were entered to race JV weren’t in the results either

Crazy things happened in the past year.

Soles moving on from Great Oak, the Hunters moving on from Loudoun Valley, and Brosnan moving on from Newbury Park

Seems like Ogomo and Gerhart (if he gets back and healthy) may be up with their 3-4-5 by the end of the season based on their track times

As long as he tells his athletes …you will run twice a day all the time and I will make sure you over train to get a great hs result … I claim to be the best coach ever … but you won’t be able to run fast in college … but at least we shall claim his glory together …

Doug Soles actually listed out how his former runners were doing in college.
Looks pretty decent.

Tibbets was never in the top 7 for Great Oak. But he was a top 7 guy for William Jessup University.

I think what Doug will enjoy in Utah that Cali did not have is that there will be only one championship race used for qualifying teams for NXN. In California it was based on the merge.

in 2014 Great Oak was screwed over. They did not qualify because the weather during the D1 race was worse than the weather during the D2 race.

I also remember someone posting on these boards that Nike hates California so if the 4th team in the merge isn’t close to the 3rd team, they don’t select that 4th team for NXN.

Looks like Herriman is running at Woodbridge as well.

Doug let everyone know how his kids did in college. Not very impressive considering what they did in HS.

Agree 100% great high school coach though and that was his job!

this is what it comes down to

if an athlete doesn't end up with a gold medal and WR eventually then some coach that worked with this athlete along the way will blamed

so yeah doug helped a ton of kids go to schools they never would have gotten into and showed them that they can do so much more with hard work than they ever thought possible. him being proud of the kids he coached is somehow narcissism though?

Ok, his job is to be a HS coach, agree with you.

is it to train his kids like college kids and hinder future development? Are his kids living up to the potential they showed and earning the scholarships they are given, if they are getting them?

guess it is up to you to decide what it means to be great HS coach.

really doesn’t matter to me, but I base my opinions on more than a trophy or two

Well, pretty much all teams that finish consistently at the top in national meets are coached by coaches that train people like college kids

How does getting fast at a young age make you less successful later? Is it mental or physical? If it is physical, can you please explain it? (I’m not asking about injured runners, that’s kind of obvious).

And then, how do the best runners in the world know how to hold back and not run a lot before age 19, like Jakob and top Africans? Is it just luck that they didn’t hinder their future development?

Thanks!

Don’t have the answer to your question. And it’s not so much running fast early that is the issue, it’s how much is put into running fast early is the issue. It’s how much physically and mentally these kids are asked to give just for HS success.

there is one thing we do know, and that is that Jakob and the Africans were not coached by this guy when they were of HS age.