GEORGETOWN XC AND TRACK

How did you not get this info from the coach and current runners? Did you go on an official visit? My advice is get back in touch and ask them your questions.

I know one of the women on the team and she described the current season as a train wreck. The previous coach left just as official practices were starting and they haven't clicked as a team this year. It was tough to win nationals last year and to not even be in the hunt this year. She also had a disappointing season, personally, and didn't run as fast as she did freshman year.

All that aside, if you don't plan on running professionally its still MF Georgetown. Nice school.

They've signed several good guys and are at the top of a few other's list. You should ask them why they committed.

Obviously they want to have a top program every year and are such a great school that they should be in-on a lot of great kids.

coast xc wrote:

How did you not get this info from the coach and current runners? Did you go on an official visit? My advice is get back in touch and ask them your questions.

Yeah I went on an official visit but everyones answers to my questions seemed like they were just trying to get me to go there. For example when I asked the coach what his training philosophy was, he said, "whatever works for you." And when I talked the kids there they all said georgetown's the best school in the country you need to come here and stuff like that. I felt like they were just trying to tell me what I wanted to hear as answers to my questions.

G'town signs awesome high school recruits every year who seem to fall off in the ncaa

Ex:

Andrew Springer

Dylan Sorenson

Bobby Peavey

I have no doubt its an awesome school but G'town seems to struggle developing HS runners

I go to Georgetown and am on the women's team.

If you're writing this stuff please don't come here!!

And fyi, we are doin just fine :)

If you really are being heavily recruited, grow up a little bit and call the coach to talk about the program a little further. Have a real conversation. If you still feel the answers are BS then move on. This is not the place to get this kind of answer.

Great program, high commitment level, family atmosphere, great school. I give the Georgetown women's team a pass this season. Tough situation losing your coach just as the season started. They'll be back. (Lots of talented underclassmen)

Great Women's program but the facilities are laughable...They don't even have a track. Lots of trails though so I guess it doesn't really matter but it kinda sucks to go to a D1 program with worse facilities than most high schools.

midwestxc wrote:

G'town signs awesome high school recruits every year who seem to fall off in the ncaa

Ex:

Andrew Springer

Dylan Sorenson

Bobby Peavey

I have no doubt its an awesome school but G'town seems to struggle developing HS runners

Springer ran something like 7:50 last year in the 3k. He was 8:23 in high school. I'd certainly say that's development.

Certainly an extremely quality effort, i overlooked that. I remembered him for his HS mile performances and he has yet to break 4 at georgetown. To me, it seems like georgetown has a top5 or top10 distance class every year (a few guys 900/410 or better) but their team has struggled to perform at that level at ncaas. Princeton, Columbia, and Oregon (recently) seem to be the same way

Springer ran 3:41. Peavey looks like he is ready to have a good year. Closed out cross with a win at ICAAAA and ran a decent 5k at Navy.

Georgetown definitely underperforms for the amount of talent they recruit. Look at CU Boulder, Wetmore manages to put together an XC team that almost is always in the top 5, out of high school kids no ones ever heard of. They do get the occasional Ritz or Adam Goucher, but they produce much better results than georgetown with MUCH less talent.

Advice wrote:

If you really are being heavily recruited, grow up a little bit and call the coach to talk about the program a little further. Have a real conversation. If you still feel the answers are BS then move on. This is not the place to get this kind of answer.

I did that already. I got a little bit more info, but he had to go before we were done with our conversation. Part of me wants to move on, but I don't really want to because I love the school, and the guys on the team seem pretty cool. I actually think letsrun is a great place to get info, because it seems like the only place where the information I get isn't biased.

What other schools are you looking at?

THE OP was talking about the women's team not the men.

Simple.

School awesome.

Women's team awesome.

Men's team average.

take care, take care take care wrote:

What other schools are you looking at?

Duke

potentialrecruit wrote:

take care, take care take care wrote:

What other schools are you looking at?

Duke

Duke's womens coach is a georgetown graduate. Ask him how his system compares to the Georgetown system.