Alan Webb getting in the coaching game!!! Portland State becomes a new power???
Alan Webb getting in the coaching game!!! Portland State becomes a new power???
Webb is back baby!!!!!!
Is his truck driving career over?
This is great news! They will have so much to learn from him. It’s great to see him get more involved with T&F again.
Do they have triathlon.
He was a very good runner back in his day. The bigger question is can he coach?
In related news, China Garden on SW 1st Ave has signed on as a sponsor of the Portland State track team.
What could possibly have attracted him to the position?
zxcvzxcv wrote:
What could possibly have attracted him to the position?
A coaching opening at a local university?
Nice recruitment pitch to prospective student/athletes! Come to Portland State. We don't have tradition or facilities but, you will be coached by volunteer assistants Alan Webb and Colleen Quigley.
Good on them! Alan and Colleen do great work in the local community and have been huge boosters of junior track/cross country in these parts.
I'd take a free gig just to fraternize with Colleen.
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Here is a Ken Goe article a few weeks back about Alan and his coaching career: https://twitter.com/KenGoe/status/1037116723407728647
Seems like PSU has been doing good with Seitz working with the distance team.... Webb makes Coach #5 working with distance runners. Seems like a lot of cooks in the kitchen
Wish him the best, I think he has a lot of potential to be a good coach. Should be easy for him to network.
His 1500 PR is only 0.14 slower than the assistant coach at UW.
rumor has it wendy's is opening 25 new locations in the greater portland area
huge move!
Did anyone else get a kick out of the fact that the promotional picture they used for the article is from a race where he didn't make it out of the prelims?
Does he ever stick with anything more than a couple years -- coaches, post-running careers, etc? He's been a triathlete, a diesel mechanic, an online coach, now a regular coach....
This will be a short lived gig.
First off, Webb's credentials as an athlete is off the charts. He's one of the greatest runners ever in U.S. history. That being said, it seems he's been bouncing around with gigs for awhile. Diesel Trucks, coaching kids, coaching high school, coaching adults, triathlons, etc...... It's a similar pattern of his running career. Bouncing around with different coaches and locations trying to find a home. Coaching is a unique profession and being a former world class athlete doesn't guarantee you'll be a good coach. Webb was at his best when he was in a stable "Hand Holding" environment. Tell him what to do and when to do it and he was amazing. As soon as he tried to "Reinvent the wheel" and or look for greener pastures on his own he began to regress. He will find it very difficult to teach and communicate with athletes if he himself doesn't understand the process and not just the end result.
1 year max and he'll be gone. Back to fixing trucks.
My 2 cents
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zxcvzxcv wrote:
What could possibly have attracted him to the position?
The answer is: He can think broadly, unlike some who can't conceive of a world outside of their narrow cubbyholes. What he is doing has so much positive potential. Nothin' ventured, nothin' gained, baby! "Failure" seems to be a definition for outsiders looking in that is seen in a different light by Alan Webb, anyway.
Alan, if you read this, we wish you the very best, however the coaching career pans out. Good luck to you and your wife with child #3, and sorry to read that you lost your mom.
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