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Just wondering what everyones opinions are about what division one colleges are the best JUMP Schools for triple and long jump.  I coach a high school athlete now that has the desire to jump at the division one level when he gets to college and I want to help him focus in on the best jump schools in the country.  He lives in Upstate NY, so the northeast is best, but definitely not the only choice for schools. 

I know that Arkansas U and LSU are two of the best, but what are the others?

Thanks

Coach Glosser

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY - BEN PARKER

Jacksonville U (fl) for women

Miami U, which is where the great Todd Lane coaches for those who don't know.

Incidentally, JU is where the absent-of-late ET moderator and good friend Ron Grigg coaches.

Both guys have coached top 3 jumpers over the past couple years. 

check out cornell if hes in ny!
they have two allamerican Tj'ers who started out as nothing special when they got there…

Find Randy Huntington.  Go to his house and let him give you a home-schooled degree.
Cornell head coach appears to be amazing also.  I need to talk to that guy.

Mike has no sense. brainwashed at the academy.
I reiterate, Jacksonville University.
Middlebury also. Best degree available and get a PhD after you get the Huntington degree, from coachformerly known as.

Ya all got no sense.  I'd head down to the swamp and find Boo.  End of discussion.
Fayette-nam has mellowed over the years and may be a good choice now.
As for Jacksonville and UMiami?  lets be serious (we are talking about 2 displaced northerners)
The best jump schools are clearly in the northeast as origionally stated.
Randy was last sighted at Mich State but is not there now. 
The coach at Cornell is Nathan Taylor and he has an assistant Mark Bylik who maybe handles TJ.
Brown has Jerome Romain now coaching there.  BU's Robyne Johnson is USATF Women's Chair for TJ.
Wheaton (MA) had a 50' TJ a few years ago. 
As for Middlebury, I'd look at Williams or Tufts first.  They are the programs getting results in that conference.

How are his grades?

Ultimatly, as they said in the commercial 'You can trust your car to the man who wears the star" so I guess UMiami may be the place?

UNL has produced some outstanding horizontal jumpers.

mortac8 - 18 April 2007 10:27 PM

Find Randy Huntington.  Go to his house and let him give you a home-schooled degree.
Cornell head coach appears to be amazing also.  I need to talk to that guy.

Who is Randy Huntington?  Is he in NY, where? 

coach glosser

coachformerlyknownas... - 19 April 2007 08:25 AM

Ya all got no sense.  I'd head down to the swamp and find Boo.  End of discussion.
Fayette-nam has mellowed over the years and may be a good choice now.
As for Jacksonville and UMiami?  lets be serious (we are talking about 2 displaced northerners)
The best jump schools are clearly in the northeast as origionally stated.
Randy was last sighted at Mich State but is not there now. 
The coach at Cornell is Nathan Taylor and he has an assistant Mark Bylik who maybe handles TJ.
Brown has Jerome Romain now coaching there.  BU's Robyne Johnson is USATF Women's Chair for TJ.
Wheaton (MA) had a 50' TJ a few years ago. 
As for Middlebury, I'd look at Williams or Tufts first.  They are the programs getting results in that conference.

How are his grades?

Ultimately, as they said in the commercial 'You can trust your car to the man who wears the star" so I guess UMiami may be the place?

Where is Wheaton, Williams, Tufts (I'll look them up on the web, but just curious still)?

His grades are good, not great, has about a 3.7-3.8 GPA.  He wants to major in some kind of engineering. 

His best jumps so far are 23'1/2" in long jump and 46'4" in Triple Jump.  He consistently is jumping over 45 feet in triple and 21'10" in long jump.  He is also only 16 years old, if I didn't mention that, he is a junior though. 

I think we are going to get him signed up for the Cornell Camp this summer, it runs from June 24-28th, should be great.  I got to meet and talk to Ray Taylor from Cornell (5th at the NCAA indoor Championships) this year, very nice young man!!

How do I get my kid on the radar of some of these good jump schools?  Do I write some letters and/or email some coaches and ask them to place them on their radar.  What do you guys think?

Thanks to everyone and lets keep this post alive, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of young talented jumpers in this case and would love to know what schools to look into as well.

Coach Glosser

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY

Probably one of the most underrated horizontal jump coaches is Cliff Rovelto at Kansas State University. He is known for the High Jump and Combined Events but has coached some outstanding TJ'ers and LJ'ers. In the last three years he has coached a woman over 46' and a guy over 52'. He currently has a 43' female and a 50' male.

http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3195&SPID=220&DB_OEM_ID=400&ATCLID=18942&Q_SEASON=2006

coachglosser - 19 April 2007 12:21 PM

mortac8 - 18 April 2007 10:27 PM

Find Randy Huntington.  Go to his house and let him give you a home-schooled degree.
Cornell head coach appears to be amazing also.  I need to talk to that guy.

Who is Randy Huntington?  Is he in NY, where? 

coach glosser

Huntington was at Mich State but only for a year.  He may be on the market again so to speak.  He coached Willie Banks, Mike Powell, and others.

Check out the University @ Albany (NY). They have a 50 TJer and a bunch of guys over 22' in the long.

Lets redefine the question.  It shouldn't be "What are the best colleges for Triple Jumping and Long Jumping?"
Nor does having a kid jump big at a school guarantee that the coach is a "great" and success will surely come if your kid goes there.  Even more to the point, there are maybe 3 guys in the US right now who make a decent living in the Long or Triple.  Give some thought to where that fits in the search.

Don't worry, everyone -good, bad, and in between will find your kid this summer by July 1st or shortly there after.  Your boy will quickly tire of "being found" and be sick of the 1000 phone calls that start with "Just touching base..."  One of the top NCAA jumpers threatened to have a baseball "base" at the house so when Coach XYZ came calling, he would be checked to see if he actually touched the base!

On some level I know pretty much every individual named in this thread, and or the unnamed coach at a school named.  All them, myself, and all the yet unnamed each have their "warts"  Don't look for a coach, look for a school,  a degree, and then in addition - a program.  There are enough good coaches to go around.  But a degree lasts longer than a stack of brown clippings of what once was…

coachformerlyknownas... - 19 April 2007 08:22 PM

Lets redefine the question.  It shouldn't be "What are the best colleges for Triple Jumping and Long Jumping?"
Nor does having a kid jump big at a school guarantee that the coach is a "great" and success will surely come if your kid goes there.  Even more to the point, there are maybe 3 guys in the US right now who make a decent living in the Long or Triple.  Give some thought to where that fits in the search.

Don't worry, everyone -good, bad, and in between will find your kid this summer by July 1st or shortly there after.  Your boy will quickly tire of "being found" and be sick of the 1000 phone calls that start with "Just touching base..."  One of the top NCAA jumpers threatened to have a baseball "base" at the house so when Coach XYZ came calling, he would be checked to see if he actually touched the base!

On some level I know pretty much every individual named in this thread, and or the unnamed coach at a school named.  All them, myself, and all the yet unnamed each have their "warts"  Don't look for a coach, look for a school,  a degree, and then in addition - a program.  There are enough good coaches to go around.  But a degree lasts longer than a stack of brown clippings of what once was…

Thanks, I definitely hear what your saying.  The only thing though is I feel he could get a good engineering degree from a lot of different schools.  My thoughts are why not find some good schools to jump and run for, then look to see if they offer a solid, well recognized engineering program and potentially go to that school.  That way he gets the best of both worlds.  If he does it the other way, finds the school who has the engineering program he wants, they could have a crappy track and field program and he is out of luck to improve as an athlete as much as he could with a good track program.  The question I don't want to ask himself later in life, after he graduates with his engineering degree is WHAT IF?  WHAT IF I went to Arkansas or Lsu or whatever, I could have still got my degree and what could I have done in the jumps?  That is the question that scares me most.

Thanks for in your insight though, I truly appreciate it, this forum is great.

Coach Glosser

Might I add:

University of Oregon is great for jumps.  He might be interested in attending Track Town USA!  Engineering is popular over here in Oregon by the way.  Great tradition and support from Eugene.

Boise State University is good.  Petros is from Greece and his jumpers improve like crazy.  He told me that the U.S. wasn't proficient in producing good horizontal jumpers, so the Greek way may be the best way!  Engineering, is somewhat decent at this school, but I would check into it more.

Louisville is an excellent choice.  Jake Jacoby is there now.  He has coached many a triple jumper to over 52 feet.  From my knowledge he knows what he is doing for sure.

These are great schools from what I have found out myself.