[unclechuck]

This looks like a very promising start. Georgetown, particularly their women's teams, have been very strong in the middle and long distance/XC events over the last several years. Miltenberg appears to be the coach behind that, which is great as that is probably Stanford's strongest area now, and an area where they have had some great recruiting momentum of late.

However, we also lost multiple assistant coaches in sprint and field events to KY, and to build a balanced and competitive team we will need to continue to build in those areas as well. Hopefully the appeal of Stanford and the Pac12 will enable Miltenberg to bring on outstanding assistant coaches in short order. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out.

BTW, the recent Pac12 Channel's preview of cross country (XC) was very well done and gives a nice preview of the season. The XC conference championship @ UCLA will be the first championship broadcast on the Pac12 Channel.

If you're curious about one of those sports that quietly goes about boosting our Directors' Cup standings with top 10 national finishes see if you can catch that preview on replay or internet. These are delightful, very real, student athletes out there doing something they love.

[unclechuck]

This looks like a very promising start. Georgetown, particularly their women's teams, have been very strong in the middle and long distance/XC events over the last several years. Miltenberg appears to be the coach behind that, which is great as that is probably Stanford's strongest area now, and an area where they have had some great recruiting momentum of late.

However, we also lost multiple assistant coaches in sprint and field events to KY, and to build a balanced and competitive team we will need to continue to build in those areas as well. Hopefully the appeal of Stanford and the Pac12 will enable Miltenberg to bring on outstanding assistant coaches in short order. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out.

BTW, the recent Pac12 Channel's preview of cross country (XC) was very well done and gives a nice preview of the season. The XC conference championship @ UCLA will be the first championship broadcast on the Pac12 Channel.

If you're curious about one of those sports that quietly goes about boosting our Directors' Cup standings with top 10 national finishes see if you can catch that preview on replay or internet. These are delightful, very real, student athletes out there doing something they love.