Chloe Cunliffe turns PRO

She is going to be a Great One, the rest can all get in line.

A good role model she'll be. Is it just me or does her name sound a little provocative?

T.M.A.D.D.D.H.A.S.F.N.E.

If University of Washington had backed up the truck and made Chloe Cunliffe an offer she could not refuse, it all may have been different with Cunliffe. It takes a small town person to like the atmosphere at Washington State or someone willing to sacrifice a lot to attend Washington State Univ. There isn't even a Target store in Pullman.

The vault coach left she had no reason to stay.

Vashti Cunningham turned pro out of HS

Whoops, my bad.

At least she wont be a multiple transfer like her other siblings.

I'd be awfully wary if I were a shoe company. That family is already 0/1 when it comes to child prodigies-turned pro athlete. And a kid who complains about school as a driving factor for turning pro doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the maturity department.... something necessary in the big bad world of pro track.

The kid and her family have the right to do this. Clearly, the family has money and doesn’t mind keeping their kids on the dole. However, her long term development is as a vaulter is failed by staying home. A solid track program provides others to train with, physios, strength coaches, etc. She is not fast on the runway and by doing the same thing her development stalls. You can say the same for Cunningham in the HJ.

a high school coach wrote:

I'd be awfully wary if I were a shoe company. That family is already 0/1 when it comes to child prodigies-turned pro athlete. And a kid who complains about school as a driving factor for turning pro doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the maturity department.... something necessary in the big bad world of pro track.

I disagree with this. I think realizing that school is not her thing and not where she wants to be does show maturity. Not all kids should go to college and too many kids who have no business going to college are pressured to go. If she truly does not like school and doesn’t want to go then she would probably end up struggling academically and possibly athletically as well. Her sister went to college and transferred (once?, twice?) and then never graduated. She may have been better off bypassing college as well. She also frees up the scholarship money that would have gone to her to a student-athlete who really does want to be in college.

Coach, have you made the drive to Washington State University? The campus is fine but everything else probably was too austere for her. Chloe Cunliffe grew up in Federal Way, I believe (20 to 25) miles from downtown, Seattle, WA. The drive from Spokane, WA to Pullman WA makes one ask: What were they thinking? Couldn't the federal government and state government put interstate from Spokane to Pullman? Anyway, WASU is fine for small towners.

Is the whole family a bunch of retards?

This one says she hates school and the older sister couldn’t even manage to get through college. Yikes.

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Agree. She thinks that college is not for her, and she has a pretty good alternative.

That seems like a real good idea. It'll be funny when she's working at a 7-Eleven at 22 years old.

grumpyoldman wrote:

That seems like a real good idea. It'll be funny when she's working at a 7-Eleven at 22 years old.

Have you seen pictures of her? She won't ever work a real job.

9/10s marry rich guys wrote:

grumpyoldman wrote:

That seems like a real good idea. It'll be funny when she's working at a 7-Eleven at 22 years old.

Have you seen pictures of her? She won't ever work a real job.

Ha! Thats if she has a different taste in men than her older sister lol

Is she still running?

a high school coach wrote:

I'd be awfully wary if I were a shoe company. That family is already 0/1 when it comes to child prodigies-turned pro athlete. And a kid who complains about school as a driving factor for turning pro doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the maturity department.... something necessary in the big bad world of pro track.

The US is the only country that ties college education to athletics, and we ONLY do that because the universities are making billions off of free labor of basketball and football players.

The rest of the world you go to school and run for a club, or if you are lucky you just run for a club and get paid.

I doubt you would criticize a young musician for choosing to not to go to college, but because you are conditioned to associating athletics=college you are too dumb to realize your idiotic assumption.

School is not for everyone, nor should it be.

She compares favorably with Allison Stokke.