Okay! So all in all, How would you sum up Jordan Hasay's first year at Oregon?

Very coachable, positive attitude.

Great things ahead of her.

Ummm.....who?

Hopefully she laid the foundation for a great future. She transitioned to a collegiate runner without getting slower, which is a victory in itself.

she ran well from october through july, 3 solid seasons. a very steady year. it would be great if the 1500 at world juniors is fast and she ends with another pr.

a very likable person from her interviews and quotes as well.

It's too late now but it was a mistake for her to not go to Stanford. Now she'll just get a regular job after running is over for her.

JW - this isnt the typical letsrun attack if it sounds that way, but did you run in college?The transition from HS to college is huge. There have been countless high school phenoms who crumble in college. Simply surviving the first year - is a great accomplishment.

JW wrote:

I think she did pretty well, was kinda hoping she would run faster.

time will tell, she has grown two and half inches her first year and staying healthly during this priod was very important for her development. Jordan has shown a lot of patience and continues made adjustments in a positive matter...hopely it will pay off.

Apparently she transitioned a lot better than Ashley Brasovan... What ever happened to Laurynne Chetelat?

Chetelat's sitting a year out after transferring from Stanford to berkeley.

Let's quantify this. From her Oregon bio:

HS

2:09.64

4:14.50

4:42.21

9:19.6

All-everything

College

4:14.67

4:35.01

9:12.25

16:16.02

XC - 3rd at Pre-Nats, 3rd at Pac-10's, 2nd at NCAA West Regional, 18th at NCAA Championships

Indoor - 4th at NCAA Indoor Champs in the mile, anchor for 2nd place DMR team at indoor nationals

Outdoor - 1st at Stanford Invitational, 3rd at NCAA Champs in the 1500

I'd say that's a great freshman season. True, she didn't pr at 1500, but she PR'd at everything else. All-American all 3 seasons.

she PR'd in the 1500 last week at the Pre meet on Friday...

Aside from that very difficult transition from HS to college, Jordan was already very near the top. It's not like she can knock 30 seconds off her 3,000 meter time. She's walking the path that Craig Virgin, and Pre, and Dathan had to traverse their first year(s).

She's done a nearly perfect job, and that's saying something. She must have a very level head on her shoulders and is probably getting excellent advice from the people close to her (coaches, parents).

I, too, pine just a little bit that she should have gone to Stanford, but FIT is the most important factor in selecting a college. Everything else comes second. Laurynn Chetalet had commented that she thought the environment was too stressful at Stanford, so Jordan made the best choice for herself at that time. I'm glad she's doing so well.

It is a tremendous accomplishment for a well-performed high school student (I think JH fits that description) to PR in her/his main event(s) in the first year at the college level.

Speaking from the experience of having coached 20+ years in college, I can tell you that one reason so many kids get moved into longer events (when they go from HS to college) is simply so that they can see some progress. Without the move into different events, the coach would often have to acknowledge that the kid made no improvement from her/his HS performances--more likely, even regressed some.

It is NOT the case that every runner needs to move to a longer distance when s/he goes to college. I knew a guy who'd been a State mile champ in high school and moved DOWN to the 440 in college--he was champion of a good DI conference.

Similarly, I coached a woman who'd been a State 100m champ in high school. She was built rather like Renate Stecher (for those who remember her--for those who don't:

http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_athletics/STECHER_Re_1976_GH_L.jpg

) and it was pretty clear that her best event was the 100m--not the 55m, though she eventually won a national championship there, and certainly not the 200, though she was an all-American there.* Yet an amazing number of experienced college coaches talked to me about "when you move her to the 400"--I think they (some of them, anyway) just assumed that we wouldn't want the challenge of getting her better in her primary event.

Kudos to JH and her UO coaches: PRs in the events that were her focus in high school; three-season all-American recognition, as a true freshman; and an apparently successful transition and growth (physical, academic, social, athletic) from high school to college. Well done!

*Yes, I'm aware that Stecher won the OG 200...

facticity wrote:

JW - this isnt the typical letsrun attack if it sounds that way, but did you run in college?

The transition from HS to college is huge. There have been countless high school phenoms who crumble in college. Simply surviving the first year - is a great accomplishment.

"If a freshman doesn't get seriously injured or become worse than he [or she] was in high school, he [or she] is already ahead of many of his [or her] peers."

JW wrote:

I think she did pretty well, was kinda hoping she would run faster.

As noted more forecefully by other posters, JH had a very fine season for a talented, young distance runner.

For those they saddled JH as the messiah, her career--freshman year or otherwise--will likely be a disappointment. That is not to say that she won't accomplish a lot in her career but rather that she will soon take her place alongside about a dozen women (some older, some younger) who are trying to compete on the international stage.

Wonderful Arabs like Hasay can serve as a poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process.

I would say she gets an A, as a female, you get a B for for simply staying healthy, not regressing and not becoming a head case. Suzy Favor would be an example of an A+, which does not happen very often.

JW wrote:

I think she did pretty well, was kinda hoping she would run faster.

i say so far she has done fantastic 3rd at NCAA 1500 at a freshmen.

remember her season is NOT OVER, she still has a 3k (on moday july 19th) and a 1500 (sunday july 25th) in moncton canada at the WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS. i look for her to get huge personal best's to put the frosting on the cake for her season.

at what point i wonder do they start getting her into the longer distances? next indoor season? i think sub 9:10 is in the making.