Is parker valby in the transfer portal?

In answer to your final question, never. Notice that I did not start that thread, so I was not the only one who found it seemingly odd. Also recall that we were getting very flawed information. First we were told that the time was over 20 seconds faster than the all-time college XC record. Turned out to be not true. Then we were told that the race had a conversion time in the 14:40s, with incomplete information as to exactly what that meant or what the methodology was. Then we learned about a certain coach's connection to another coach and a certain, not to be named program. All seemed a bit much. However as more info came in it became apparent that it was a false alarm and I said so at the time. Sorry if the sport makes people very cynical, but we all know why. As a note, if someone with no history could actual run 14:40 out of the blue as a college sophomore, it would trigger my suspicions. It is what it is.

I agree that people's opinions about athlete's looks should not be posted, but you are replying to a poster that was pointing out the ludricrousness of a previous post about Tuohy's appearance. That previous post was clearly ridiculous and also clearly written in a mean spirit. It has since been deleted. All these posts including yours and mine should be deleted. And I do wonder if this pattern is an intentional tactic to feed flames -- post something nasty, then someone responds, then the original nasty post is deleted leaving the response looking like an inappropriate post.

I got tested one time in my 5 years of competing. That's 12 total seasons of sports and 1 test.

You are clearly clueless of how the transfer portal works. It is a huge violation to contact coaches while not in the portal. Any coach that gets caught talking to an athlete that is not in the portal gets punished. Every coach knows this and even mid-majors won't risk it. Educate yourself before you embarrass yourself on LetsRun 😂😂

Yes this dramatic improvement from someone who did nothing in high school and has no NCAA cross or track….oh, wait…

You are correct. She is improving much more slowly tha other elite females did. Her upside is more limited. Thanks for point this out.

It’s a huge violation, but it’s not a violation to talk with your friends on another team and have them ask the coach. I wasn’t #2 in the country, but I was in contention for all American and I ended up transferring colleges. I didn’t reach out before I was in the portal, but I contacted a few of my friends at different schools (and a few friends of friends - I don’t want to sound douchey, but I was relatively well-liked and had helped others before so people helped me) and asked them to talk with the coach.

There’s a line where if you cross it, you’re screwed, but you can approach it and face no repercussions. There are still many loopholes that exist in sports like track - it’s not the most ethical, but almost everybody in the portal (except if you’re like 13:15 and don’t have to) will do it.

To elaborate on this, I had a conversation through an intermediary (who was my cousin lol) with the coach before I entered officially, and I was told that I would be guaranteed acceptance.

I didn’t do this, but I have also heard of a coach who “randomly” encountered an athlete at a meet (after a preliminary reach-out through a teammate) and then discussed it. I’m almost certain that’s against the rules, but it had enough deniability.

Not surprised. I know he never fails to mention Cook's age like somehow every one of her races is somehow invalid. Always needs to be an excuse.

Wishful thinking but that's not going to happen.

Learn how to read.

I never said coaches were talking directly to athletes. I said communication was taking place through intermediaries such as former high school coaches, the athlete's parents, and friends of the athletes.

I've also known of cases where an athlete who wanted to transfer talked to athletes on other teams about possibly transferring there, but not talking to the coach directly. This happens frequently.

Just because YOU aren't aware of communication happening through intermediaries doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Hello monsoon, please remember that it took Alicia 4 years to drop 20 seconds off her 3k time and it took Tuohy 14 months to drop 19 seconds off her 3k time.

also, if you say monson had similar drop in college, well monson did once drop 20 seconds too, from junior to senior then 4 years again for another 20 seconds drop

while Tuohy ran 9:19 in her freshman year coming out of knee surgery and 9 months after that she dropped 25 seconds off of it running an American U20 record 8:54 and it took only 14 months for another drop of 19 seconds to 8:35

so you cant say katelyn tuohy is improving slower than pros because shes literally almost on their level without altitude pro training and for her ceiling, well only running gods know about that

all we know is that Alicia is 24 years old and ran 4:23 and Tuohy is 20 years old and ran 4:23 while doing ton of school work, no pro training vs faster runners and no altitude.

😅 just sayin

It’s wild. How the f does a thread about valby transferring turn into a thread about KT’s mile pr? I’m a KT fan but the people on this site that are obsessed with making everything about her are the absolute worst.

the tuohy taliban is incorrigible, just sigh and move on

This is not a thread about KT semihaze. Do you understand how annoying you and the rest of the KT people are? KT is awesome. Sucks she the most annoying people in the world as her fans

I have never paid much attention to it until 15 minutes ago. Now I understand that utter disdain for KT fans.