Dan Pfaff will be a coach for Great Britain after this season.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 612610.ece
It's a real shame to lose someone like Coach Pfaff. The US has the best developmental system in the world (NCAA), but after college, athletes usually have to keep running with their college coaches or the few post-collegiate programs out there (OTC, McMillan Elite, etc).
There are a few top level professional coaches (John Smith, Bobby Kersee, John Cook, etc), but they are supported mostly by the shoe companies or charge athletes a fee.
Pfaff was at the USOC Training Center in Chula Vista after the program in Isleton/Stockton lost its funding, but it seems to me like we need a program run by USATF (in conjunction with the USOC) to hire coaches like Pfaff and have post-collegiate athletes (especially those not earning enough to pay a coach a fair wage) come and train under them.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 612610.ece
It's a real shame to lose someone like Coach Pfaff. The US has the best developmental system in the world (NCAA), but after college, athletes usually have to keep running with their college coaches or the few post-collegiate programs out there (OTC, McMillan Elite, etc).
There are a few top level professional coaches (John Smith, Bobby Kersee, John Cook, etc), but they are supported mostly by the shoe companies or charge athletes a fee.
Pfaff was at the USOC Training Center in Chula Vista after the program in Isleton/Stockton lost its funding, but it seems to me like we need a program run by USATF (in conjunction with the USOC) to hire coaches like Pfaff and have post-collegiate athletes (especially those not earning enough to pay a coach a fair wage) come and train under them.
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