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...
info_outlineLarry 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 served as the head coach of 8 Washington State High School State Championship cross country teams in the last 7 years. In addition, he has coached 3 individual state cross champions during the last 7 years.
We discuss:
His career as a runner and how it lead into coaching
How at such a small school he recruits and keeps a successful program
How does he use what he learned as running at an elite level and use it in his program
Who did he learn from and what did he read that helped him in his coaching
What does he do to individualize programming to get the maximum out of each kid while not overtraining
How does he break up his team in workout groups
How does training vary year-to-year based on the group
His 30k foot overview of what the training cycle looks like for the season
How does he set pacing for his workouts
How he prescribes recovery workouts and paces
How he works on a mindset where they know they can compete with large schools
How often his athletes race during the season
What specific work he does to get ready for the state meet
Fun traditions he does during the season to build team bonding
He gives advice to coaches on how to build a larger program
His all-time record for the ultimate runner competition
His staple workout for the team
How he structures a week during a race week to get in enough quality