Date: May 16, 2023
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She has zero strengths. Every single aspect of her coaching is a liability. From a purely technical standpoint, her training plans are bad. Claims that the training plans are customized for every athlete but used the exact same training plan for every athlete every single year. The workout paces she gives are far too fast and you will get overtrained quickly if you try to follow them. She has zero understanding of recovery, usually only assigning 1-2 recovery days per week and everything else is pretty much all out. More than half the team will be injured at any point. She also has zero understanding on how structure a season schedule, or how to taper for big races. She will give incredibly difficult, high volume workouts just 2 days before the conference meet. She has terrible people skills. Incredibly negative attitude 24/7 and generally unapproachable. She is unable to keep her cool in stressful situations and is prone to extreme outbursts. Completely unable to emotionally connect with her athletes, and believes exclusively in punishment/negative reinforcement for underperforming members of the team. Clearly does not care about most people on the team and does very little to hide it. Will openly gossip about her athletes (if you tell her any sensitive/personal information expect the entire team to know about it within 24 hours). Usually will pick 2-3 athletes a year to just outright bully until they quit the team. Has no sense of humility and will CONSTANTLY remind you of how grateful you should be that you are coached by her. Her communication is terrible. Constantly forgets to relay important information, such as practice times, to the team. The majority of her texts/emails are borderline incomprehensible due to the amount of spelling and grammatical errors. If you ask her for any clarifications she acts like its your fault that she messed up. She is incredibly harsh on athletes that show up late to practices, but will usually be late herself several times per week with no prior communication or acceptable excuse. She has now been forced out of her position by her own athletes at two different universities. That should tell you all you need to know.