How do I go about becoming a coach for professional distance runners?
How much money would I make if I had an athlete of Alan Webb's or Ryan Hall's caliber?
What degree should I get in college to ultimately be a professional coach?
How do I go about becoming a coach for professional distance runners?
How much money would I make if I had an athlete of Alan Webb's or Ryan Hall's caliber?
What degree should I get in college to ultimately be a professional coach?
you usually have to be a great experienced distance runner yourself to be a successful coach. its all about the experience.
...train with the world's greatest coaches and you might have a chance.
Read a lot. Ask a lot of questions. A Ph.D. in the sciences might help, but it's better to be a people person than some science geek that can't relate.
Try ask Phil Knight for a million dollars. I tried and he turned me down, so I will never be the world's greatest coach, but the runners I've coached for the past three decades know I am one of the greats.
Coaching professionals you might make close to 30k annually (someday).
I know people that coach waddlers and penguins and they earn more than I do.
Some NCAA experience might help, than you may make the connections you need to coach post-collegiates.
Degree in Sports psychology. But you will never make a packet as its done for the love of it!
Shadow top distance coaches at local running club and learn from them and the athletes you work with.
Take as many coaching quals/courses as you can and start at the bottom and work your way up the ladder.
It can be a thankless job/vocation and involves long unsociable hours as well as patience,determination and committment to your runners and the club if appropriate.
Can be rewarding as well as disappointing- be prepared.
Huh?
coach in college because many times runners stay with their college coach at least at first
not marathoners
Deena--Mahon
Magdalena--Daniels
Blake--Sevene
Hall--Mahon
Ritz--Hudson
Sell--Hanson
None of these athletes are with their college coaches.
The "must be an experienced top level runner" advice is horseshit. Dr. Joe Vigil was a football player. Jumbo Elliot was a fat slob. They did not run.
Jumbo was not a fat slob. His nickname came from a Phillies pitcher in the '30's named Jumbo Elliot. Jumbo was a very successful business man who coached as a sideline.
He died before most letsrun posters were born.
http://www.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=48
They have him confused with Gags.
Ask the former coach of Arkansas. Coach Mac was not only one of the best distance coaches ever, he is one of the best coaches of any sport ever to coach at the NCAA level.