S3E8: Tom Rothenberger
Ben Rosario Show
Welcome to the final episode of the Ben Rosario show for season three. Ben is the coach of the professional Northern Arizona Elite team in Flagstaff and Dean Ouellette is a high school coach in Chandler Arizona. Today they welcome Coach Tom Rothenberger of Jesuit high school in Oregon. Tom has coached Jesuit for over 30 years with 26 state titles.
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S3E7: Justin Leonard
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 Justin Leonard about his success
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S3 E6: Dan Iverson
Ben Rosario Show
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.
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S3 E5: Dave Van Sickle
Ben Rosario Show
Today Ben welcomes Coach Dave Van Sickle of Xavier high school in Phoenix. Dave has a really interesting history never being much of a distance runner himself as a youth. Dave had to learn how to coach distance runners and over the last 30 years has become one of the best coaches in Arizona winning several state titles and two trips to NXN. Ben and Dave discuss some of his major influences and how his coaching and training has evolved.
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S3 E4: Dave Frank
Ben Rosario Show
Dave Frank is the very successful boys cross country coach at Central Catholic. He arrived in 2000 with Alberto Salazar and took over the program in 2005. Since he took over, his boys have been first or second every year at the State meet.
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S3 E3: Sal Gonzalez
Ben Rosario Show
Sal Gonzales is the successful New Mexico cross country and track coach of Rio Rancho High School. We talk to him about his training and how he had to change his coaching when he went to a new school.
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S3 E2: Timo Mostert
Ben Rosario Show
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 you decide you wanted to coach? Very early had great coaches After the freshman year in college got into education with hopes of being a coach What do you want to talk...
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S3 E1: Colin Altevogt
Ben Rosario Show
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.
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S2 E9: Jonathan Dalby
Ben Rosario Show
We talk to Jonathon Dably of Mountain Vista High School about his team's success at NXN and about what is next? How does he make the transition into winter running and then how do things change going into spring track?
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S2 E8 John O'Malley
Ben Rosario Show
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 staff. Culture is a big piece of the success of Sandburg High School. John talks in detail about building the culture and what that means? John talks about recruiting and growing the team? Before we get...
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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 crowns last year, we talk about the expectations this year.
We talk summer structure and how it differs between upperclassman and newer runners.
Coach Kedge discusses how often his kids race and how he works on race strategy with the kids.
“If you don't work recovery into every aspect of your training you will run into a snag somewhere.”
Coach Kedge sets up his weeks so he can have success on the weekend for his races. Monday is usually a workout day with a long run on Wednesday with the race on Saturday which will give them three hard days a week.
“You tell me your Monday, I will tell you a lot about your program.”
Coach Kedge has a running times workout which is a staple workout for his team. 1-mile warmup, 1st 1.5 miles of 5k tempo pace, take 2-3 minutes then next mile of 5k course at race pace. Then 2-3 minutes and last half mile at sub-race pace.
A track workout called finding pace is 90 second repeats. Puts tape on track for 3200 paces. Try to hit the pace every time, 10x90 seconds with 90 seconds rest.
Kedge discusses how he handles State week, what he does different and what he does the same. He discusses what his training looks like and how it differs depending on the team.
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