UCR Greats
This current Highlander broke two 40-year old school records in the span of 6 months
Who is Ashraf Abdelmagid?
This former athlete of Coach Zach’s won Olympic gold in the men’s 1500m
Who is Cole Hocker?
Coach Zach’s favorite professional sports team
What is the Dodgers?
The point at which lactate builds up in the bloodstream faster than the body can remove it
What is lactate threshold?
This (barely) former UCR athlete almost never showed up to practice but is now on her 4th collegiate team
Who is Aislin Taylor?
This UCR distance GOAT holds 4 school records (bonus if you can name the events)
Who is Frank Assumma?
This US middle distance runner broke the American record, but still couldn’t podium in his event
Who is Bryce Hoppel?
Coach Browne comes from a very large family with 7 siblings - this many are brothers.
What is 5?
Athletes from this country pioneered the double threshold system
What is Norway?
In a long line of Great Oak flameouts, this athlete left to pursue a career as a pilot
Who is Mateo Joseph?
What is 10:25.61?
Sifan Hassan completed this historic triple, medaling in all 3 events
What is the 5000, 10000, and marathon?
Grad assistant Mia Ashby is in this masters program at UCR
What is Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology?
The measure that Coach Zach uses to find estimated workout paces
What is VO2 Max?
This burnout now promotes his photography business on Instagram
Who is John Eikemeyer?
Following his UCR career, this Highlander continued racing, but switched disciplines to cycling
Who is Chad Hall?
Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis ran this time in a 1v1 100m race against Karsten Warholm
What is 10.37?
This same year Coach Browne started full-time coaching, Spider-Man 3 was released
What is 2007?
It typically takes this long for adaptation to occur in training
What is 10 days?
This former middle distance talent once sent the name of her favorite smoke shop to her head coach by “accident”
Who is Jordan Cornet
UCR women have etched their names in 4 of the top 5 spots on our top-10 list for the indoor 5000 in the last 2 seasons (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th). This athlete holds the 4th position.
Who is Weslie Pearce?
Grant Fisher became the 4th American man to medal in the 10000m. The only one of the four to win Gold was this athlete.
Who is Billy Mills?
Before settling on Kinesiology/Sport & Recreation Management as a major, Coach Zach intended to major in biology with the goal of pursuing this profession
What is an orthopedic surgeon?
You can use this formula as a rough estimate for an altitude conversion in workouts or races
What is 4 seconds per mile for every 1000 ft over 3000 ft?
His Strava bio once read simply “I tried.”
Who is Daniel Beck?