Someone else might be able to clarify, but my recollection and understanding was that Tysons Big Opportunity came when Dellinger retired. His name was heavy in the succession rumor but it went to Lanana.
Martin Smith. After he got canned, he was the "volunteer distance coach" for one track season, then they hired Lanana.
Someone else might be able to clarify, but my recollection and understanding was that Tysons Big Opportunity came when Dellinger retired. His name was heavy in the succession rumor but it went to Lanana.
I don’t know if there’s another tread on this but has to be considered one of the handful of great cross country coaches. I’m assuming he’s fully funded for cross now but still, he’s done an unbelievable job.
Gonzaga track and xc only gets 1.2 scholarships for the whole mens team.
What are you guys droning on about with this "no money" theme? It's bs. Gonzaga t&f/xc schoalrship money spent last year: $597,624 on women's program, and $565,130 for men's. These are from mandated public reporting, not some super stealth pretend secret knowledge. So what is the demonstrable source of any of your claims?....
I don’t know if there’s another tread on this but has to be considered one of the handful of great cross country coaches. I’m assuming he’s fully funded for cross now but still, he’s done an unbelievable job.
How could anyone claim Tyson is one of the best ever coaches? According to his bio, he's coached exactly 2 All Americans in 15 years at Gonzaga. Fraley and Mwaura. Mwaura is his ONLY cross country All-American.
I don’t know if there’s another tread on this but has to be considered one of the handful of great cross country coaches. I’m assuming he’s fully funded for cross now but still, he’s done an unbelievable job.
How could anyone claim Tyson is one of the best ever coaches? According to his bio, he's coached exactly 2 All Americans in 15 years at Gonzaga. Fraley and Mwaura. Mwaura is his ONLY cross country All-American.
He took a group of kids, all from the state of Washington, and took them to nationals. The is unheard of.
No Australians, no Moroccans, no Africans, just kids from WA.
Only schools who did it better were BYU and the Air Force.
How could anyone claim Tyson is one of the best ever coaches? According to his bio, he's coached exactly 2 All Americans in 15 years at Gonzaga. Fraley and Mwaura. Mwaura is his ONLY cross country All-American.
He took a group of kids, all from the state of Washington, and took them to nationals. The is unheard of.
No Australians, no Moroccans, no Africans, just kids from WA.
Only schools who did it better were BYU and the Air Force.
You don't get bonus points for that. If he was capable of recruiting a top out of stater and getting his team to place higher, he should have.
Gonzaga has a program where WA residents attend school for free if they qualify for Pell grants. That's an incredible advantage.
Mwaura ran 14:00 in high school before super shoes. There's plenty of talent in the state. Tyson isn't doing it with 10:00 runners.
He is doing it with some very talented runners, but also many that sucked generally in high school and improve every year. Gonzaga has 5.5 scholarships for the Mens XC & Track program as of Fall 2022. They have recruited 4 ever sub 9 3200 runners (Mwara, Maiorano, Charbenou, & Perrin). Two of which are underclassman at the moment. 95% of the key players were kids that were all around solid athletes from Northwest high schools, but never did anything on a national level.