Expected
Expected
I am SHOCKED!!
https://twitter.com/d9monti/status/401318521449115648
Mary Cain has turned pro. "I believe that in the long run this is the best way for me to continue to develop," she said via @PACESportsMgmt.
$320K/yr
here is were it was officially announced
This post should be blowing up today.
Its also a litmus test for when people wake up and log on.
Good decision and was expected. Let all those college rah rah's flame on.
So she was never planning on running NXNs, that is for sure.
Good for her making the big leap. She's a heck of a talent. Salazar obviously showed he can develop a young athlete into an olympic player.
Good choice, its her time to shine. Anyone in the Olympic finals should be a pro. Al Sal will be a much better performance manager than any college coach (because he won't have to care about team scoring). She'll avoid overracing and overtraining. I wish the best of luck to her.
Revan wrote:
Good choice, its her time to shine. Anyone in the World Game finals should be a pro. Al Sal will be a much better performance manager than any college coach (because he won't have to care about team scoring). She'll avoid overracing and overtraining. I wish the best of luck to her.
Fixed. I meant to write world games.
She is ducking the superior xc runner Sarah Baxter to whom she has only lost to and will always be inferior to.
Low-brow letsrunner wrote:
She is ducking the superior xc runner Sarah Baxter to whom she has only lost to and will always be inferior to.
Pretty sure Baxter would prefer Cains record.
Good for her. She will still be fun to watch.
Yeah. It will still be interesting to see where she decides to go to college, as she'll be training there for the next 4 years.
Will any records she sets this year be considered high school records, even though she won't be running for her school? She doesn't graduate until May.
So what about all of the money she passed up last year?
She turned down money for placing at USATF.
She turned down potential sponsorship money over the summer.
She could have had some appearance money.
What did she gain by passing up that money since she is now pro?
And if she PR's this spring will it count as a high school record?
The NCAA's has their own thing.
But if you are in high school and run faster than any other high schooler ever, wouldn't that be seen as a record?
I'm a little bit surprised as I thought she would run for Oregon, but I think she's making the right decision. Collegiate running would have been a waste of time for her even with Salazar still coaching her like Galen Rupp. For the person who wonders where she will go to college, I would imagine it would be Oregon State, since it's in the same town as Nike headquarters.
pretty impressive that she's a straight A student, has an anesthesiologist as a father, and is pro level fast. Has the world in her hand! Good luck to her
sc runner wrote:
I'm a little bit surprised as I thought she would run for Oregon, but I think she's making the right decision. Collegiate running would have been a waste of time for her even with Salazar still coaching her like Galen Rupp. For the person who wonders where she will go to college, I would imagine it would be Oregon State, since it's in the same town as Nike headquarters.
Since when is Nike HQ in Corvallis?
Why should this post be blowing up? She went pro, as expected. She signed with Mo and Galen's agent, Ricky Simms, and she signed with Nike. Is any of this shocking? It would be blowing up if she signed with Dartmouth or Asics, or Mark Block.