Coaches’ Blog

After four years of going toe to toe with Daniel Murner—okay, more like staring at his back—I’m now getting the unique chance to work with him as a colleague. And to introduce him. I’ve only had a handful of opportunities to be even within sight of him on the track (not a height joke, I [...]

I was going to save the world. Easy as that- sail through medical school, move to East Africa and save lives. But life always takes a few unexpected left turns and rather, I found myself sitting by the Cleveland airport curb, waiting for my ride. A large immaculate white Suburban pulls up. Two men in [...]

No regrets. That’s what it’s all about for me.  I realized this very early on.  My greatest regrets are things I never attempted, not my failed attempts. I probably realized this in 6th grade when I never asked out my crush, Jessie. Then Jason beat me to the punch. Who would have ever thought that [...]

A mere 72 hours after Jesse Faller broke his 5k school record, Tufts alum Matt Lacey dominated his expectations in his first ever Boston Marathon.  Lacey still maintains a stronghold on the Tufts 10k record with his impressive performance of 30:04.  He is easily one of the most selfless athletes that I’ve ever had the [...]

It is difficult to anticipate how a 5000 meter race will be run at a championship meet.  You never know how it is going to be run, you must be ready for any kind of scenario. Will someone take the pace out quickly and try to burn off the kickers and the individuals who are [...]

Since coming to Tufts, I’ve been extremely fortunate to be a part of some fast relays. It’s one of our calling card at major invites. In the past six years, we’ve had five DMR teams qualify for the NCAA Championships (one automatically), a 4×400, and reset our school record in the 4×800 and DMR this [...]

Each of the next five meets will be a Friday/Saturday combo meets for us.  Valentines Invite, DIII NE’s, Open NE’s, ECAC’s, NCAA’s.  I’ve never actually noticed it before, but it really puts the screws to your work week.  You find yourself losing the better part of a full work day with a meet on Friday. [...]

With another season of 12-hour track meets at BU upon us, allow me to be the first to start up the conversation about entries.  I’m always intrigued by coaches interpretations of what their athletes are capable of and how they rationalize their entries.  As I’ve said in previous posts, I am all for more transparency [...]

I won’t lie, I’m not 100% ready to weigh in on the Castor Semenya issue yet.  There’s a lot going on here and I will admit that I don’t have all the relevant information.  If you want some of the latest updates, you can read this article at NYtimes.com.  To be honest, it actually scares [...]

So I should really be cramming for my GRE’s that are on Tuesday morning, but I really don’t feel like it.  I guess it’s one of the blessings of growing up.  You never really care what other people say about you any more.  I could really care less what a computer-based GRE test says about [...]