Irish Division 1 Cross Country Coaches

UCC is not small they have a student population of 14,294 and is competitive with many US colleges in reguard to their entry policies. In other words normal people will be accepted. She went to a HS school in Hospital, Co. Limerick Ie.

Its much easier to get in to College in the US than it is in Ireland. FACT.

I just had to say that was brilliant reply, weldone. Then again I wouldn't expect anything less from Irishmen.

Ess Eff Plodder wrote:

A couple more good Irish coaches...Peter McColgan, husband of Liz and Gary Lough husband of Paula Radcliffe.

They may have stolen 6 counties but we are stealin their wimmin!

Paula Radcliffe is a quitter.

michelle byrne as at ETSU IS THE WORST COACH EVER... I do mean that look at the program now.

I've been very fortunate to have the coaches I have. My cross coach in high school was Des Ryan from Dublin. He ran for UMich and won a Big 10 indoor mile. Caring man, great energy and love for the sport spilled over to his teams.

It is much easer to get into an Irish college than a US one of the same quality. FACT.

Your head is up your ass. FACT.

the head coach of wku is not irish...there is an irish assistant coach on the women's side but the head coach is from usa...many irish went there from same area in cork or same age group but that will close down just like the english tradition and south african connections dried up...

WHat is the high school competition like in Ireland?

Not nearly as well organized or competitive as it is here in the USA. Few schools have qualified coaches, few schools have tracks, few schools have the support systems of alumni, parents, staff etc. that get involved in HS sports here in America.

The major difference is that most high school kids run for both their school and their local club and they compete for both. As teenagers they get to train alongside the top runners in the country (if they belong to a good club) which I think is beneficial.

Irish schools XC is a farce. Track is worse.

Imeacht gan teacht ort

Thanks,

I have no intention of returning to that wretched rain and alcohol soaked little rock.

Obviously one reason that you can get better talent from nations other than the US is that in the US there are a great number of outstanding runners not running. They are playing basketball, or swimming, or soccer, or baseball, or lacrosse, or ice hockey, or volleyball, or motocross, or ad nauseum. In Europe, Africa and Central America there are a handful of sports most school age kids can pursue, 1- soccer, 2- track / x-c, 3, 4 & 5 (add sport of regional interest here- basketball for some, rugby etc). Also track and x-c is a cool sport in those areas, and is not the "other" sport that HS do.

In short, imagine how much better US running would be if every high school kid who was going to do a sport HAD to do track, thousands of highly talented runners would emerge, compete, winnow their numbers, and the product would be better elite runners. As it is, you do have some elite runners who wind up running, but the competitive distillation is not nearly as difficult or sharpening as fine as it would be if everyone, or even twice as many, got in the pool in the beginning.

That said, God invented wiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world, apparently those coaches must abstain during training thus, they are kicking ass.

Whatever dude - how much quicker are her pr's than any women from the us? Exactly - eat my shit i think the saying goes???

Yeah we only have one sport in Ireland. Everyone runs, thats why we produce so much talent.

I'm being nice to you dude, when Mick Rice reads this you're f***ed.