Ben Rosario Show

When it comes to qualifying for NXN, Southlake Carrol ranks as the school with the second most combined team appearances, only behind FM. We talk to him about his success

Background

• Ran as a youth and into college
• Was lucky with coaches was an 800 guy forced to do cross country
  
  

School

• 2700 students
• 150-160 combined boys/girls most year
• Affluent community and good school
• Took over the program in 2008
• Stays plugged i...

Dan Iverson - Naperville North girls head coach. The girl's team won the 2018 Nike Midwest Championship and were runners-up from the 2017 NXN.

Background

• 25 years coaching
• Ran North Central College for Al Carius
• 2500-3000 kids at school and 75 girls on the team
• Al has had a big impact on Dan

Run for fun and personal bests

• Enjoy and put in the work
• Everyone no matter ability contributes to the whole
• The kids buy in, ...

Dave Van Sickle

• From Iowa, did track to stay in shape for football
• DII football and track athlete
• Moved to Arizona in 1982 to see how fast could run post-college
• Started coaching in 1983
• Started middle distance coaching in high school then local community college needed a coach and took over their cross country program, not knowing how to score a cross country meet
• After 3-4 years there moved around the country for a few years...

Dave Frank Central Catholic Introduction

• Grew up in Oregon, won some state titles in high school
• Ran at Stanford in early 80's
• Senior year made Olympic Trials in Steeple
• Made it again in 88 and in the marathon in 92
• 11 years coaches at St Francis in California
• Central Catholic was nothing to speak of when arrived
• Alberto Salazar hired same year and Galen Rupp was a Freshman
• 19 years now at Central Catholic

You had a lot ...

Introduction to Sal Gonzalez Rio Ranch High in New Mexico

• Started running in high school to stay in shape for basketball
• Had more luck and was only 5' 7" so ended up running in college

School demographics

• 2400 students in school
• One of higher academic achieving schools in the state
• 80 kids this year 30 girls and 50 boys
• First year there was 2008
• The second year the school split, was 4000 kids the first year
• The firs...

Introduction to Coach Timo Mostert

• Great up in Illinois and ran at BYU
• 1998 moved to American Fork
• 8 State Championships over last 9 years
• 8 NXN trips with an average place 5th and lowest 8th,
• 2nd place 3 times in the last six years

School demographics

• 2400 students in 3 grades
• In our school district 3 other schools who have made it to Nike Cross
• Team averages 30 boys, 40 this year is the largest ever

When did...

Colin Altevogt, the boys XC coach at Carmel High in Indiana. Colin has been coaching in Indiana for the past 11 years, the last six years as a cross country coach at Carmel. The team has captured four state championships and two state runner-up titles with two qualifications for Nike Cross Nationals (2014 and 2017), including a tenth-place finish in 2017.

Background

• Ran in high school and college
• Taught at Avon right out of co...

You had an amazing end of season qualifying both boys and girls team for the Nike Nationals. Want to talk about how that went for you?The boys and girls did so well, and they continue to do so year after year, it has to be a program thing. So what is it about what they are doing at Mountain Vista that is making both the boys and girls so good.

• Get everyone involved
• Over 40 athletes r...

John O’Malley is the longtime coach of Sandburg High School where he has sent two teams and a few individuals to the NXN Championship race.

John took over the program in 2003 and we talk about some of the changes and challenges he has gone through.

John coaches more than 50 boys, we talk about the staff he uses to manage that team size and how Good To Great has helped him build the coaching...

Trina Painter

Won both the boys and girls State Titles for Arizona Division 2. Trina talks about both State meet races for the girls' team and the boys' team.

Trina talks about her running history which included several Olympic Trial qualifiers.

Trina talks about her experiences at the Olympic Trials in 1996, 2000 and 2004.

Flagstaff is a D2 school with 1600 stud...

Chris Hanson - Head Boys Coach Desert Vista Cross Country and Track

Chris has been the head coach at Desert Vista High School since they opened in 1994. DV has 3,000 kids and about 60 boys a year for cross country.

Chris discusses what his coaching staff looks like to handle such a large team and the important role they play.

They had three state titles in a row coming into th...

Larry Weber was named as a Washington State High School Cross Country coach of the year in 2011, 2012, and 2015 by the Washington State High School Cross Country Coaches Association. He was also named as the Division 2 National Coach of the year for the girls in 2014 and for the boys in 2014, 2015, and 2016. His teams won national cross country championships in 2014 (boys and girls), 2015 and 2016. Coach Weber has ser...

Coach Joe Porter St Louis University High School

Joe Took over a very successful program and we discussed what it was like taking it over when things were already going so well.

When there is a regime change, sometimes the new coach forces changes, Joe talks about how he built the trust of the team.

Joe talks about the one thing that all successful programs do.

W...

Adam Kedge Albuquerque Academy

AA won boys and girls state title last year. Kedge has over 20 State Titles at AA and was the 2011 National Boys Coach of the Year. Kedge is a member of the NM Sports Hall of Fame

Only 650 kids at the high school, yet have made Nike five of the first six years.   

Won both the boys and girls state crown...

You have coached at every level you could coach at and recently retired from Team USA MN. Can you talk about that decision and recapping your time there?

You had a lot of success with Team USA MN. What do you think lead to the amount of success you had? Was it team atmosphere, Minnesota or what were the factors?

Where do you see the future of these post-collegiate groups in the next 5-10 ye...

We wanted to get the co-coaches of Coe Brown, Tim Cox and Brent Tkaczyk, on because we wanted to talk to some small school coaches who are having success. Some of the issues smaller schools of 700 kids have a much bigger difference than a coach at a school with 3000 kids and huge teams You also have a unique coaching situation there and that is where I wanted to start.

If you could both i...

Marist, a smaller school in Georgia in the last 9 years on the girls have won 9 state titles and boys 6 with a few 2nd place finishes, we want to dig into what you are doing to have this much success… first let's start out if you could give us a background of how you got involved in running and how you ended up the coach of Marist?

Is this your first coaching gig, or did you coach before ...

State results and between 2000-2010 the girls team had qualified for state exactly 0 times. Then you take over in 2011 and in 2011 your team was 8th at state and since then they had a 3rd, 2nd, and now two firsts. Also I looked at the team size, and it wasn’t like they had a small squad in 2010, so what was the thing that really changed between 2010 and 2011 that allowed the team to make such a huge improvement and re...