Linfield College

[Guest]

Can anyone give some insight into the program/history of track at Linfield. I am thinking about applying. Thanks
Adam

[BillVol]

Re: Linfield College

Linfield College? I have never even heard of that school. Is this a four-year school?

I'd go to their internet site and see what you can dig up. But SIDs at schools that size are usually not of much help. Especially when track is the subject.

[BillVol]

Re: Linfield College

http://www-new.linfield.edu/sports//

Just checked out their site. It looks like a very nice place with great facilities. You should be very happy at Linfield.

[gm]

Re: Linfield College

I'd
>go to their internet site and see what you can
>dig up. But SIDs at schools that size are
>usually not of much help. Especially when track
>is the subject.

I would beg to differ. I have found that D3 SIDs tend to be more well-rounded and eager to help than their D1 counterparts.

[BillVol]

Re: Linfield College

I speak only from having to deal with Belmont Abbey College. Legendary coach Hall of Famer Al McGuire coached there. I needed his game-by-game results for his career there. You would think that info would be somewhere lying around, right? Probably in the media guide. Nope. They didn't have a clue.

Hopefully they were the exception.

[Guest]

Re: Linfield College

<<Just checked out their site.>>

Kudos to the webmaster. Great looking and well-developed. I bet a lot of D1 SID's could learn a thing or two by looking at this site.

[gm]

Re: Linfield College

>I speak only from having to deal with Belmont
>Abbey College. Legendary coach Hall of Famer Al
>McGuire coached there. I needed his game-by-game
>results for his career there. You would think
>that info would be somewhere lying around, right?
>Probably in the media guide. Nope. They didn't
>have a clue.

Hopefully they were the
>exception.

In the circumstances you mention, I'm not surprised they had nothing! The "modern" SID business only really became widespread in the late 70s, and anything before that was hit-and-miss at best in most universities beyond the largest.

[Guest]

Re: Linfield College

The initial poster asked for information about Linfield College track and field.

Coach Garry Kilgore and his fine facility have hosted the Oregon USATF Championships and other meets. He's been truly supportive of development such as offering the women's steeplechase. (He was a steepler himself.)

As for SID, Linfield's K. Bird has responded very well over the years to my requests for information.

[Guest]

Re: Linfield College

Dr. Fields, are you still doing your women's steeple mailing list? You deserve some credit for popularizing the event! Good to see you around here.

[Guest]

Re: Women's Steeple

"BV" wrote, "Dr. Fields, are you still doing your women's steeple mailing list? You deserve some credit for popularizing the event! Good to see you around here."
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Yes, the "Women's Steeplechase Report" is now in its eighth year. Issue 250 last week went to readers in 42 nations.

Thanks for the "deserve" comment. I must admit that promoting lady steeplers has, thanks to internet resources, been much easier than my earlier crusade (starting in the 1950s) on behalf of women's cross country, distance running, and racewalking. Technology can be very helpful.

James E. Fields, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

[Guest]

Re: Women's Steeple

I used to be on the list but I guess some glitch got me off of it. This has been probably 5 or 6 years ago. How could I get back on the list? Thanks!

[Guest]

Re: Women's Steeple

BV asked how to get back on the free distribution mail list for "Women's Steeplechase Report." For details use the URL below.

http://www.usatf-oregon.org/public/steeplechase/

[BillVol]

Re: Women's Steeple

Dr. Fields, thanks for the link. By the way, do you live in Knoxville? If so, I had no idea you did!

[Guest]

Re: Women's Steeple

Yes, in August 1997 I moved from Eugene to Boston where my wife and I taught at Boston University and I served as an official at various USATF competitions there. Two years later we moved to Knoxville. I'm still officiating -- at University of Tennessee competitions and elsewhere in the USA.

We still travel a lot to interesting places, e.g. to China in 2001, where I visited with the 2008 Olympic Games committee in Beijing and brought home a lot of illustrated planning documents, and again in 2002 when we saw great progress, both in Games preparations and in general upgrading of Beijing facilities. The modernity there may surprise some track fans who go to the 2008 Olympics.