Amanda Moreno from UC Santa Barbara: when did she get so good?

She was a California XC state champion and 2nd in the 3200 at the California T&F state meet. Also, I think she ran around 16:30 for U of Nevada a few years ago. She has made huge improvements this year, but definitely didn't come out of nowhere.

Westside XC wrote:

She was a California XC state champion and 2nd in the 3200 at the California T&F state meet. Also, I think she ran around 16:30 for U of Nevada a few years ago. She has made huge improvements this year, but definitely didn't come out of nowhere.

Its nice to see a local runner do well. She went to Escalon high school. She kinda disappeared for a couple of years. Now she is running very fast a UCSB.

Her brother was very fast in high school too. A 9:11 2-miler. You may not think that is fast, but it is really fast, because he was a wrestler. I believe he went to Cal Poly to wrestle.

Great running gene pool.

When was she 2nd at the California T&F meet? Why did she transfer?

9:11 2 mile and he goes to wrestle? WTF!

Shrunken Head Master wrote:

9:11 2 mile and he goes to wrestle? WTF!

Get laid or stay a virgin, tough choice.

Moreno went to Nevada for three years. She loved coach Elias. He does an outstanding job with his runners, but Amanda kept getting sick and injured on and off. She had some good times and had some good meets, but not running to potential. She decided to change schools and leaving Elias was the hardest part. UCSB has been a great fit. Coach Dolan has a long history of producing outstanding distance runners. Dolan's coaching and Santa Barbara's climate has made the difference in her career. As for her brother, he ended up wrestling for Cal Poly and was a two time All American. He spent the last 4 years coaching wrestling at Stanford. He now runs half marithons for fun. His last one was won with a time of 1hr 14 min.

I was coached by Kirk Elias a long time ago and I agree he is an absolutely awesome coach and obviously the best coach I've ever had. Most of his athletes show great improvement under his tutelage. I'm sure he is happy to see Amanda doing well this year, though.

As someone mentioned, great genes in that family, obviously!

Why is UCSB's recruiting class rather lackluster this year (and even last year)? I've barely heard of anyone going there, and schools like Cal Poly and UCLA are getting great classes. Who is UCSB getting this year? It seems like they are basically graduating a lot of runners this year and next year.

bump... anyone?

Self wrote:

Shrunken Head Master wrote:

9:11 2 mile and he goes to wrestle? WTF!

Get laid or stay a virgin, tough choice.

Not true. Chicks dig neckless morons with cauliflower ears even less than than they dig skinny guys.

UCSB is getting some good runners this year. They have gotten some elite runners in the past, and a good sprinkling of sub-elite runners (at least, sub-elite for California... elite for basically everywhere else).

What about the amanda marino from villanova?? what happened to this girl

she ran 16:3x at mt sac for 5k i would think this girl should be running 15:40 or better by now.. her teammates ran faster than her at mt sac one running 15:48 and im sure amanda has beaten her at nationals for xc the past two yrs.

is she battling anemia again!? she is a really nice girl and hopefully its nothing that bad again.

http://www.flotrack.org/speaker/5807-Amanda-Marino/video/355867-Novas-Amanda-Marino-on-Recovering-from-Iron-Deficiency-the-XC-Season