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Post by reformation on Aug 19, 2009 22:15:40 GMT -5
What we need is the new science building. I suspect our peer assessment tends to be relatively low because we are not seen as well balanced between liberal arts and hard sciences. An engineering school would really help with that, of course, but it ain't gonna happen. We could also stand to have an endowment of $30 billion. I don't think that the science building really has any impact on outside peer asessment--if the people doing the peer assessment actually knew the state of facilities they would rank us even lower---some of the things that probably hurt our perception in peer academic rankings include things like the small # of gtwn students that apply(get in) to top phd programs. Also I don't think that there is a lot of focus from our admin on trying to make sure that Gtwn's undergrad academic program from a pure acdemic viewpoint is on par with our peer universities(which we compete with from an admissions standpoint). I think that our admin place more emphasis on the overall "georgetown experience" than the strict academic experience and are content with the status quo unless we actually fell out of the US News top 25--which would be a big deal. Given the actual lack of focus on the pure academic side of things(rightly or wrongly), our mediocre review on peer assessments is not surprising and is probably not all that out of step with what a lot of our own faculty think--witness the recent academic life report that was leaked to the voice/hoya last yr.
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Post by reformation on Aug 15, 2009 9:28:38 GMT -5
Don't think we'll get any respect on either men/women's side until we make some kind of breakthough, e.g., big upset win, winning a game in NCAA tournament. Hopefully this year will be the year. I think that the coahing staffs + full schollies have been in lace long enough to begin to expect seeing some improvement in results.
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Post by reformation on Aug 13, 2009 16:26:30 GMT -5
I didn't know where to put this.... UCLA recently tied Inter Milan 2-2 in an exhibition in L.A., and yes Ibra played, etc. Now, this is good cause it means UCLA is a quality opponent, but I was more wondering what the odds of us scheduling a similar summer match against a European club team were, considering this is their pre-season.... link to this? interesting if true.....Gtown played the US national team in a friendly a few years ago so not completely unheard of..DC United regularly plays UMD and UVA in preseason I remember last yr te women were supposed to get a striker from the icelandic natl team--i chked the roster and did not see her listed--does anyone know what happened to her
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Post by reformation on Jul 25, 2009 20:59:28 GMT -5
We recruited a lot of elite women's sprinters this year--Hopefully they will stay with the program if we can find someone good to replace her--I would have to imagine that Burrell was the track draw for them at least. Unfortunately it is late in the year and there is probably nobody on the existing staff who could step into her role. Hopefully we can also get someone who can work with the 400-800m men.
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Post by reformation on Jul 18, 2009 11:41:05 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that Toby was a DNS. I hope he is not badly injured. Perhaps some NCAA rules and regulations kept him from competing in the semis. Have to wonder why the mens team seems to frequently dns/dnf in champioship meets--the pattern is getting a bit ridiculous . Is it random bad luck, bad training strategy or something else?
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Post by reformation on Jul 17, 2009 13:18:46 GMT -5
Unfortunately Toby was a DNS in the semi final round at the European U23 champs. I would assume that he must have gotten injured in round 1--hopefully nothing significant.
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Post by reformation on Jul 16, 2009 20:37:41 GMT -5
Current Soph Toby Ulm moved on to the semi final round in the 400h at the European U23 Athletics champs in Lithuania. Toby is representing great Britain(2 years ago he got a bronze in the Euro U20 champs.
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Post by reformation on Jun 27, 2009 19:14:02 GMT -5
GU's official athletic site is reporting that Biyerem has broken the school record in the110H. However, the wind was over the legal limit of 2 meters per sec (it was 2.8 mps), so IMO, it cannot be recognized as the school record. Also, I am not sure the junior hurdles (and this was a junior race) are the same height as the open hurdlers' race. I will have to check on that. A couple of other errors on the following link. The men's final of the 5000m was not a two-heat timed final, as originally planned, but a one-heat final. And Emily Infeld and not Maggie is running in the junior 800m today. guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/m-track/recaps/062709aaa.htmlYes I "think" the GUHOYAS report is bogus--Jr's go over 39" hurdles while college/sr national competitors use 42" hurdles--I am not completely sure on this one, but believemy post to be accurate and the GU post to be erroneous
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Post by reformation on Jun 27, 2009 19:11:12 GMT -5
GU's official athletic site is reporting that Biyerem has broken the school record in the110H. However, the wind was over the legal limit of 2 meters per sec (it was 2.8 mps), so IMO, it cannot be recognized as the school record. Also, I am not sure the junior hurdles (and this was a junior race) are the same height as the open hurdlers' race. I will have to check on that. A couple of other errors on the following link. The men's final of the 5000m was not a two-heat timed final, as originally planned, but a one-heat final. And Emily Infeld and not Maggie is running in the junior 800m today. guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/m-track/recaps/062709aaa.html
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Post by reformation on Jun 26, 2009 22:38:04 GMT -5
Bumbalough and Debole both faded in the 5k's --Bumby tried to stay with a fast pace early on and ended up running a 14:15--I'm sure he was unhappy with that--Bumby tried to hang on to freshman phenom German Fernandez but could not take the pace. Seems like all the gtwn distance guys other than Liam Boylan-Pett had trouble at the meet--have to wonder about their training/peaking strategy
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Post by reformation on Jun 18, 2009 12:48:28 GMT -5
I wonder if Toby Ulm has a shot to make the UK 400H team.
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Post by reformation on Jun 10, 2009 20:02:02 GMT -5
A couple of other recruits had big pr's in their state meets:
Tenille Stoudenmire 11.7/23.9 for a third/forth placing at the CA state meet--big perf, faster than anyone else on Gtwn's current team.
Kirsten Kasper: 4:49 mile to win the Mass state champ--5 sec for her--she swam rather tha run track in the indoors, so she still probably has a lot of upside relative to some of the other elite runners. For some perspective I think Renee Tomlin ran around 4:49 in hs and was also an all state swimmer, but was a lot faster at 800, maggie Infeld was around 4:47 and I think Emily Infeld was around 4:43. So if Kirsten can improve a couple of sec at the year end meets she would be right in the middle of the comp hs times of our top few mid distance runners. The newsppaer report I saw in her win also indicated that she ran her final lap in 64 sec, which is unbelieveably quick for a hs girl.
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Post by reformation on Jun 10, 2009 19:53:17 GMT -5
London Finley also advanced to the semi's in the 400H--advancing to the final will require a big PR for her, though I think she ran a pr in the prelim.
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Post by reformation on Jun 7, 2009 20:10:01 GMT -5
Christine whalen continues to make big pr's--the women have 3 returning runners at 2:06--they need one more runner to step up to have another shot at winning the ncaa dmr or at penn.
good run for bumbalough--it will be interesting to see what he does at the natl champs--it will be his first champ 5k--hopefully it will be a tactical race where he could be in contention
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Post by reformation on Jun 6, 2009 21:38:42 GMT -5
What you say is certainly true re: those two programs , but I'm not sure that they are ever going to be in a position to occasionally compete for a national champ or even go deep in their respective NCAA tourneys--also not sure what reaches we make academically in those sports--don't have the answers but I still think we'd have to look at those sports critically from a number of angles.
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Post by reformation on Jun 6, 2009 11:20:24 GMT -5
I would think the the new permanent AD would evaluate the more marginal programs--soccer seems to be improving and have a chance to be nationally relevant--
If it were me I guess I'd take a look at baseball/softball/football/women's volleyball/field hockey/golf/tennis--I wouldn't necessarily cut them, I might actually put more resources agaist some depending on the current situation + potential. Most elite colleges look at their sports commitments in terms of some combination of measures using $/competitiveness-significance/alumni support/academic cost to admitting marginal students. I think most people on the board forget about the academic cost aspect to various sports when discussing the costs + benefits of various programs.
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Post by reformation on May 29, 2009 20:09:40 GMT -5
Pretty good effort by Gtwn staff to get Bumbalough into the meet--they must have a good in with Reebok.
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Post by reformation on May 13, 2009 13:06:56 GMT -5
Georgetown added an 800 guy from Virginia, Brian Hencke. His pr's are 1:54.5(800), 49.9(400), 2:30 1k. Maybe comparable to someone like an alex bean(coming out of hs) at 400-1000--though slower than Bean at the longer stuff. He could have an impact with improvement.(shld be able to go faster at 800 with his 400/1k times.
Men and women have both recruited elite sprinters + distance people--they still are short on recruits who can really crush a 400/800-maybe we will take some grad student transfers again like Boylan-Pett for the 800 at least.
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Post by reformation on Apr 25, 2009 19:12:43 GMT -5
Interesting that the men did not contest the 4 X Mile, where they shld have been one of the favorites. I guess they were trying to preserve boylan-pett for the 4 X 8. Hopefully they can pull off a good 4 X 8. Congrats to Boylan-Pett (and the 4 X 800 team) with the 1:46.0 800 anchor split--undoubtedly the best leg of the meet. the men finished a close second to texas in the 4 X 800--excellent leg by maloy and good leg by o"connor. Pett nearly ran down the reigning NCAA champ Jacob Hernandez of texas. On a side note a pretty silly headline on GUhoyas re: the womens 4 X 200 relay(not a major event at Penn) considering Boylan -Pett ran the fastest relay split of the meet. I would think that Boylan-Pett would have a legit shot at a top 3 finish in either the 800 or 1500 at the NCAA meet.
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Post by reformation on Apr 25, 2009 14:07:50 GMT -5
Just saw that Hoya recruit Ben Furcht finished second in the 3k in a good time of 8:24--good performance by him.
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