Kersee ruining Mu. Salazar ruining Cain. Maybe we stop sending our most talented young women to famous coaches, and instead just keep doing what's been working until it stops working.
Kersee had a hand in it, I am sure, but this is mostly a young woman who is heavily ambivalent about the pressure of the sport after starting from a young age and being nationally prominent already in her mid teens before dominating the world her freshman year of college.
Kersee had a hand in it, I am sure, but this is mostly a young woman who is heavily ambivalent about the pressure of the sport after starting from a young age and being nationally prominent already in her mid teens before dominating the world her freshman year of college.
She did not start failing until Kersee started coaching her. That’s the most obvious reason why she is struggling
Kersee ruining Mu. Salazar ruining Cain. Maybe we stop sending our most talented young women to famous coaches, and instead just keep doing what's been working until it stops working.
Kersee ruining Mu. Salazar ruining Cain. Maybe we stop sending our most talented young women to famous coaches, and instead just keep doing what's been working until it stops working.
I agree but on the contrary, Touhy.
Not a good comparison. Out of HS, Touhy went to a NC State program that focused on group/family/team/connection while also breeding success. That's why she was successful in her late teens/early 20s as evidences by her titles and records. Clearly now she's struggling, but that's a different story. But she never got isolated like Cain and Mu clearly did at these early ages. That is a key and fundamental difference.
I think she's kerrying SML's basket at the start line
Feels sort of slimy that we hate her her so much? What gives? She had a major injury, that cost her a yr. Doesn't seem she is flourishing under Kersee, I would agree, why do people change what works?
Kersee had a hand in it, I am sure, but this is mostly a young woman who is heavily ambivalent about the pressure of the sport after starting from a young age and being nationally prominent already in her mid teens before dominating the world her freshman year of college.
Agree, Kersee is not a great 800m coach, but there are other factors. We should remember, that she was running competitively in track and field at the club level since she was like 6 years old and quite seriously since middle school. When she arrived on the national and world scene at 16 or so, most of us just assumed it was because she was a "generational talent", maybe not giving enough credit to the years of hard work she and her coach and her family had already put in. Well, what if she is NOT a generational talent? What if she is not a physiological super-human and is just a great talent (like Ajee, Raven, etc.) who just worked very hard for many years and matured a bit early? It can certainly lead to burnout, career fatigue, IMHO. Plus, she was so young when she started she really did not have much of a conscious choice in selecting this sport for herself. If she is just a "great talent" and not a superhuman, she knows how hard she has to work to get back up to where Kelly and others are now and she just dreads it and does not have the passion or drive for it anymore. She's got her awards and accolades and she has a good financial start to life. I would understand her being conflicted about committing 110%.