Natosha Rogers of Texas A&M decides to quit the sport.

100% Agree. I have no idea what other people are talking about. McRaven is a smart coach and a good guy. Natosha has been hurt for a while. This "conflict" doesn't exist. Get your facts straight.

People Are Clueless wrote:

100% Agree. I have no idea what other people are talking about. McRaven is a smart coach and a good guy. Natosha has been hurt for a while. This "conflict" doesn't exist. Get your facts straight.

So you're saying she didn't quit?

Being deadly serious, this is a colossal mistake. She can be a successful professional runner in a group that has the ability to monitor her training and health. She has all of the qualities that a shoe company could possibly want in a runner. Al Sal needs to get on a plane down to the NCAA meet and have a sit down with Natosha. If you read this Natosha, please, please reconsider. That stupid team tactic crap at the Trials has completely changed the course of her life. This is a pity.

gaw. talk about aggie haters. pleeze. natosha is hurt. she's skipped her last outdoor season in pain. she will graduate in a few months this may, then move to Boulder and turn pro. natosha grew up in Denver and will be back around her original peeps again.

http://www.aggieathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=690506&SPID=114008&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=27300&ATCLID=205236549&Q_SEASON=2012

I can't tell from her bio if she ran all four CC seasons?

So as far as I can see she has (1) indoor and outdoor left.

If she had redshirted a Cross-country season that would be big as she could get a full boatfrom a good school that needed her this fall. And she'd have a 6 month Rest Period to get back in a good place. I see options her besides just turning pro.

she's done w college life. getting the sheepskin in a few months. time to move on. she will turn pro and train in boulder. over n out.

If this is true I wonder if she'll focus more on the 5K/10K or longer distances?

She wanted to concentrate on 26.2 for this season but her couch told her that distance has never been attempted on a track.

So is she quitting running or just not running for her school and planning to go pro?

It's really sad to see her quit, and hopefully she does resume running as a pro after graduating and after she gets healthy.

I think part of the problem may be Aggieland culture. Johnny Manziel has to resort to taking classes online, otherwise he stirs a frenzy when he's on campus. Meanwhile, Natosha Rogers, an NCAA champ and who, had she not fallen in the trials, would have been an Olympian; yet she can walk on campus in complete anonymity. Somebody mentioned it earlier in the thread, that had she gone to another school, say, to her home state Colorado, or even Oregon or the like, then she would not be in this predicament. (We can, however, put such speculation aside, as she wasn't highly touted coming out of HS.) Simply put, A&M just isn't a mecca for distance runners. Sure, they've had some good ones, but they are an exception to the rule (Barrios, Gulli, and now Rogers and Lelei). Not only does the track program take a second billing to its rabid, cult-like following of its football team, but also within the track and field team, distance runners take second billing to Pat Henry's touted sprint program. My understanding from hearing from a former distance runner on the team, Henry did not cloak his favoritism to the sprinters and treated his distance runners as red-headed stepchildren.

My observation with runners graduating from A&M is that once they're done competing, they go on with their merry, little lives. Most marry right after college, and most have used their competitive experience as a means to an end: it (at least partially) paid for school. Most have successful careers outside of running. They are doctors and engineers. Yet, not a one of them go into the pro running circuit. Sure, there are some who do show up to claim a title or two at local road races (Andrew Cook, Logan Sherman, Melissa Cook ne' Gulli), but for the most part, all of the others disappear completely out of the running scene. They are too involved making babies, buying that home in the burbs, making an occasional trip back to Northgate to revel with old friends, and of course, following that football team.

In the mindset of Rogers, she's really not walking away from anything. I hope that she gets her head out of the Aggieland fog and realizes and taps into her preternatural talent.

Don't lie please.

If this is true she's "taking a break" or "quitting", what a weakling! The one's who continue as pros go through LOTS of injuries, picking themself up over and over again. She gets one injury and is down and out? Sounds like a high school mentality. She doesn't belong- what a waste of talent.

must be great to be 18

say it aint so wrote:

If this is true she's "taking a break" or "quitting", what a weakling! The one's who continue as pros go through LOTS of injuries, picking themself up over and over again. She gets one injury and is down and out? Sounds like a high school mentality. She doesn't belong- what a waste of talent.

Panda Express wrote:

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html

be sayin

#35 Texas

#91 Rice

#93 Tx A&M

Yeah because those rankings have ANYTHING to do with the quality of the undergraduate education.

Good luck to Natosha. Her trials race last year was brilliant and I would love to see her reemerge. Come to Oregon!

Pretty crappy of Pat Henry to make comments to the press about how she hurt their team chances for the indoor meet. If there was any chance of her changing her mind for outdoor there is none now.

From the NCAA Indoor Preview -

"Oh yeah, one more thing, Texas A&M coach Pat Henry was asked off camera about Natosha Rogers and he clearly didn’t want to talk about it and said she wasn’t going to be running again for Texas A&M."

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2013/03/2013-ncaa-track-field-championships-day-1-arrival-day-in-fayettevile-pre-meet-press-conference-coachathlete-banquet-recap/

I don't know if this means she quit for good for just for the remainder of college. There seems to be many conflicting stories in this thread from "teammates"

someone had to do it wrote:

From the NCAA Indoor Preview -

"Oh yeah, one more thing, Texas A&M coach Pat Henry was asked off camera about Natosha Rogers and he clearly didn’t want to talk about it and said she wasn’t going to be running again for Texas A&M."

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2013/03/2013-ncaa-track-field-championships-day-1-arrival-day-in-fayettevile-pre-meet-press-conference-coachathlete-banquet-recap/

I don't know if this means she quit for good for just for the remainder of college. There seems to be many conflicting stories in this thread from "teammates"

There's wayyyy too much testosterone on this team. They need a woman on staff to have some compassion!

She is pregnant. not hurt. it will all be known soon.

wonderbuns wrote:

Pretty crappy of Pat Henry to make comments to the press about how she hurt their team chances for the indoor meet. If there was any chance of her changing her mind for outdoor there is none now.

Did he really say that????? Link?

If so, he is a frigging idiot.

No runner in their right might should go to that school.