Kudos to Coach Steve Taylor

[urfan1]

In spite of stripping him of his program, he used is influence to bring to bring the USATF National X Country Championships to our regular course at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville. With little to no support we had two runners compete today, Miles Clikeman for the men and Madison Trippett for the ladies. With little to work with the Taylors Steve coaches the men in X-country and his wife, Lori the ladies in track and x-country) continue to impress, GREAT Coaches! They show what can be done.

 

[Wood Hall]

In spite of stripping him of his program, he used is influence to bring to bring the USATF National X Country Championships to our regular course at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville. With little to no support we had two runners compete today, Miles Clikeman for the men and Madison Trippett for the ladies. With little to work with the Taylors Steve coaches the men in X-country and his wife, Lori the ladies in track and x-country) continue to impress, GREAT Coaches! They show what can be done.

Isn't he still our coach? How was he stripped of his program?

 

[SFspidur]

Men's indoor and outdoor track and field were cut to add lax, so he lost two-thirds of the program he was overseeing. He still has men's XC and he's an assistant for women's T&F.

 

[urfan1]

Isn't he still our coach? How was he stripped of his program?

he was men's track coach as well as x-country

 

[Wood Hall]

Yeah, but that's pretty much ancient history now, haven't we had lacrosse for almost a decade (don't follow it, so can't be exact). I read the "stripping him of his program" as something that just happened and thought I'd missed us dropping men's CC, which we obviously haven't.

 

[KE Spider]

Haven't dropped it, but not serious about it as with so many other sports, female and male.

Agree with FAN1 , Taylor has done a masterful job of making chicken salad out of the chicken poop support school has provided. But hey, we have cross country teams on our resume so looks good on the school profile. That's enough apparently.

 

[Ferrum Spider]

Lax needs to take the next step. Period. Love the progress we made, but if were going to do what we did to get it, we need to start winning NCAA games, preferably with regularity. We are in a much better conference now, not many easy wins like we had in the SOCON.