Coaches’ Blog

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 […]

A friend of mine just called me out on the fact that I have yet to post any actual New Year’s resolutions so far this year.  To be honest, I don’t always respond well when someone ribs me so as a result, my next post will not be about my resolutions, but something completely unrelated. […]

Okay, we’re going to play a little game.  I just invented it.  Trust me, it’s really fun.  It’s called “What’s right in this picture?” and if you can’t figure out the general gist of the game from the title then I’m not going to help you out.  Let’s begin… To be honest, I don’t even […]

I apologize for the absence of anything coming out of the men’s xc/track & field office lately.  We definitely hit the ground running once we touched down from Rwanda.  Freshmen arrived, team came back from camp, Alumni Run, Trinity Invite, classes started up.  It has been a great 2 weeks, but somewhat of a blur. […]