University of Alaska Anchorage
NCAA DII • GNAC
Date: August 25, 2024
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Chas is a really solid coach. I know there are a lot of reviews that say that he is racist and bigoted but that is definitely not the case. He may be a little disorganized at times but honestly I think it adds to his charm. Chas is definitely a go with the flow guy which has been awesome for me. As someone who has never been to the West Coast Chas made a considerable effort to take the team to cool places so we could see things other than the track or course. Chas has even gone so far to take the team an hour out of the way to go run in a beautiful redwood forest because I had said that I’d never seen redwoods before. Most of his training is effort based. This means if you are being overtrained it’s your own fault. Sure he wants you to go fast in workouts and will sometimes give you paces that you’ll be unsure of but there have been very few times where the paces that he has given me wasn’t something that I couldn’t dig deep to hit. Another really great thing about Chas is that he will tell it to you as it is. I have definitely had my share of bad races and he is very straight forward about them but honestly it can be a bit refreshing. Coming from a coach that wouldn’t talk to me after a bad race it has been a breath of fresh air to know that he still cares about you and that he doesn’t fault you for your mistakes. Would definitely recommend Chas and would Definitely recommend UAA.