What do people think about the lack of sprinting on the college circuit? Do we need more of it? Or is it too much of a pain in the a-- with the travel to justify having half the field race for five minutes?
For background:
http://fasterskier.com/2009/07/sprinting-fails-to-gain-traction-at-college-level/
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Collegiate Sprinting
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Posted 2 years ago #
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This is a tough one. The question of sprinting at a variety of levels keeps coming up. The travel for 3 minutes of racing is a problem for the junior level too. But if we want to develop good sprinters, we need developing athletes to race that format - or do we?
Of course, a skier could race quite a few sprints as a junior, and not race another one until after college - this is only a bad thing if we look at college as part of the development pipeline.
My opinion is that sprints are fun - fun to race, fun to watch. One a season in collegiate racing seems doable...
Posted 2 years ago # -
I'll echo what FS.com had to add about the juniors. It's a tough sell even getting parents to drive 5+ hours round-trip in a car for a 13 minute MS or HS race. Now that sports funding is tightening up everywhere and pay-to-play becomes more prevalent, I expect we will see more pushback on it from everyone. In a larger, multi-day college carnival setting, sprinting makes more sense, but please don't make me give up another frozen Saturday for a sprint in East Cupcake, USA.
Posted 2 years ago #
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