My bad yo, I can never spell.
Tim
My bad yo, I can never spell.
Tim
I know Neil Davis. He was the top distance runner in the Central Coast Section until Brett Gotcher came around.
Soph XC
2nd @ CCS Champ., 16th @ State
Soph Track
4th CCS 3200m
Junior XC
1st @ CCS Champ., 10th @ State
Junior Track
3rd @ CCS 3200m, 12th @ State
Senior XC
2nd @ CCS Champ., 4th @ State
Senior Track
3rd @ CCS 3200m, 7th @ State
HS Best for 3200m was 9:11.
He didn't come out of nowhere. He just spent his first year training. No here he is.
yep, a product of Bellarmine Prep!
GO BELLS!!!
anyone know what kind of conditions the course was in at notre dame?
Some kid I talked to said it was sloppy, and compared it to Great American..Personally I dont think anything compares to that though...
I heard it was pretty muddy. It rained earlier at the meet and cleared up by the time the women's Blue division started running. By that time the course was pretty ripped up.
BCP rocks!!!!
BCP = Bellarmine
and as for Neil he ran a 14:28 5k this spring too so this aint out of nowhere
Yeah, the ND golf course gets some serious lakes when it rains. Does ND still run on that lousy course? It's barely half the size it used to be now that they built the new bookstore and quad where the back nine used to be. It must get awfully boring running lap after lap on that thing, now that it's so tiny
what year did u graduate from bcp man? TW is the premier coaching guru of the WCAL, CCS, and any other league as far as i'm concerned
01- and i definitely agree- its too bad he's more or less retired from coaching- im not sure if its him or McCrystle really coaching this year
what year were you?
Is it Terry's absence -- or the absence of fresh horses that has stagnated Bellarmine distance running?
1996...way back in the prehistoric era:)
while my senior year was the last year TW officially coached, and we did pretty good
he (PMac) took over last year and there was some unhappiness- this is second hand of course
there is talent in the school, but i think the summer training has been lacking, and last year was a small graduating class (4 guys), compounded with quite a few injuries to key runners
looking at a couple of the meets this year it seems time-wise a couple of the top guys have regressed and after having Davis and Hoppe for so long the team lacks a top runner now
the freshman seem to have done pretty well so far, so give the team a year or two and it should be back up there
but as im out of the loop with the program these are only guesses- how you know so much about Neil trackhead? you go to school in the area?
Patrick McCrystal the teacher. He might be coaching also?
yeah, at least officialy he's the head coach- TW was supposed to have retired as of last year, but the word i got was that the coaching was more of a collaborative effort- as I understand it this year PMac is suppposed to be on his own
wasn't '96 the year that we went 1-7 at CCS? i know that happened before my time, but maybe it was even earlier than that
we didn't do it during the fall of '95. fall '96 was my frosh year in college and i can't really remember the specifics of that ccs outcome.
keep the fire burnin' man!
A great race for Neil Davis, he looked strong and seemed to be moving up throughout the race. Not sure where he will fit on the team when they add in all the horses, but he has shown some nice improvement from high school which hopefully he will continue. Right about when Vin was telling Davis, Henj (sp?), and on other guy to pick it up I noticed Andy Powell walking around after dropping. Couldn't hear what he said to Vin, but he didn't seem to be limping or anything. The course was pretty sloppy in a lot of places, but in others it really wasn't that bad even during the mens race. I feel sorry for the earlier races, which I believe were run when it was still pretty stormy out.
I was running in the CCS the same time he was. He was one of the top 1600m/3200m/XC runners in the section.
Go Neil!
-BCP class of '99