Who will be the new Gtwn Head Coach

A. Taye brother, Todd lumbar from Edina, MN, Benjamin Hall of Victor, NY and a few others that I probably do not know as well.

I think that they only got two elite distance runners-Taye and Samantha McMillan.

They did get a much better haul of sprinters than usual as I know they would like to broaden their program. Some of the other recruits include Toby Ulm a 51.X 400h guy from the UK who probably also could have talent at 800, a 13:9 110h guy from georgia + some others. I also think that they will get some more grad students from Columbia who will compete at Gtwn for a year.---I think one of Henners biggest challenges will be to improve recruiting

They obviously need to hire a new assistant or two--will be interesting to see who they get.

I actually am a professor at Columbia and went to Gtwn undergrad-so I think I'm pretty unbiased(like both places) and informed to comment on your post. I would say that Gtwn/Columbia have pretty similar academics at the undergrad level but that Columbia has substantially better grad programs.

Re: location I like NYC better, but DC(Gtwn especially) is a pretty good place too.

ugh Johanna....not another rebound.

shut up swissy its not even that big

Any word from insiders re: who/howmany/what type of new assistants will be hired. Do you think that any alums will come back as assistants?

First logical assumption is CHris Miltenburg. He and Henner were together the entire meet this weekend Chris will be going.

ithink wrote:

First logical assumption is CHris Miltenburg. He and Henner were together the entire meet this weekend Chris will be going.

In English, please.

I have heard one notable canidate is intertested in when a track will/ever be built. Maybe they would have had an easier time if they would have taken care of this a while ago

Patrick Henner was named Director of Track & Field for Georgetown University.

Any truth to Miltenburg going?

I guess Miltenburg could coach the women, they would still need somebody to replace Helmer for the shorter distance stuff.

Miltenburg was just promoted at Columbia--maybe Gtwn offered him and he turned it down already--probably would be a good hire if they got him-he has done well at Columbia, maybe doing a better job than Henner actually did at Gtwn.

never thought I'd ever say this: bring back Helmer please

I have heard from many people that Georgetown's track program has a history of dicking recruits over and telling them they are interested and than dropping them at the last second. Does anyone know if it was the old coach who would do this or if it was Henner?Anyone want to confirm about 4 stories in the last few years about kids being told they are going to be accepted to being forgotten about.

curious lil person wrote:

Anyone want to confirm about 4 stories in the last few years about kids being told they are going to be accepted to being forgotten about.

If we knew who these mysterious 4 kids were, we might have a shot at confirming the story.

curious lil person wrote:

I have heard from many people that Georgetown's track program has a history of dicking recruits over and telling them they are interested and than dropping them at the last second. Does anyone know if it was the old coach who would do this or if it was Henner?Anyone want to confirm about 4 stories in the last few years about kids being told they are going to be accepted to being forgotten about.

It's clear you have no idea what you are talking about.

First off, the "old coach" is Frank Gagliano, one of the best known coaches in US track and field.

Second, did you actually hear this from "many" people, or is it really that you know one person (or perhaps it's yourself) who wanted to go to Georgetown, was running decently enough to have Georgetown in his sights as a junior in HS and then he/you ran miserably his/your senior year and like most coaches would, Henner and/or Gags decided you weren't worth the 150k it would have cost in scholarship to put him/you through Gtown and then he/you were wished good luck.

Artie Lange

boya wrote:

Now they've named a director, maybe they can officially name the incoming recruting class. It would probably help with recruiting for interested people to see the caliber of recruit that is going there, and they do have some good ones, like Keith Stapleton, for example, but I only know where he is going because of his Flocast post-race interview at NON.

If it's actually true that Miltenburg from Columbia will join Henner, who will they get to do the shorter distance stuff-anybody or just let those guys try to do both the sprints/distance?