One coach who may be overlooked at times is Gary Weineke at Illinois. he
has coached 6 or 7 of the top 800m guys in Big Ten history, including WC
and OG finalist Marko Koers and has had a 4 X 880 team set a world best.
Additionally, his record with what most would regard as mediocre and
unrecruitable high school talent has been very impressive. He routinely
takes 1:58-2:01 guys and turns them into 1:50-1:53 guys (or better) and
seems to be able to turn pretty much any 1:55 or better guy into a routine
scorer in the Big Ten or even into the Big ten Champion (Bobby True for
exmample, was a 1:53 hs guy).
If you look at what he does year in, year out with mostly in-state guys,
many of them walk-ons, his 800m success is truely impressive.
Paul
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, David Andersen wrote:
> Who are the best active middle distance (800,1500) coaches in the US and
> why?
>
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Paul Talbot
Department of Geography/
Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder CO 80309-0260
(303) 492-3248
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