Sonia O’Sullivan: More people are starting to take notice of Dublin sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke (via IrishTimesSport)
Sarah Healy has already been to the European Championships, World Championships, the Olympics and World indoors taking the home-grown path at UCD and stepping straight into the senior ranks.
For whatever reason, Rhasidat was sadly and wrongly left off the Tokyo Olympic team in 2021 by Athletics Ireland, at a time when she had the opportunity to experience all the hype of the Games in a low-pressure situation on the mixed 4x400m relay squad. From my own experience development isn’t always an easy path: my daughter Sophie was another of the Gyor medal winners from 2018, and only now with steady progression at the University of Washington is she starting to find some of her youthful form again with two recent personal best times over 800m and one mile. It will be interesting and exciting if one day these three young achievers will be all back together again on the Irish senior team, which chances now are they will.
The NCAA system can be cut-throat, and no more so than qualifying for the indoor finals. It’s all down to fast times and every week the top lists get shuffled around and the standards also increase every year. What would qualify a year ago across all events is not guaranteed to get you to the Big Dance, as they like to call it, one year later.One reason for this is the changing rules for NCAA athletes and also the extra year that many athletes were given back due to the Covid-19 affected years.
It also means the doors have been opened for athletes to generate some revenue that they would otherwise have to put on hold while staying in college for all four, five or even six years to finish out their collegiate eligibility. When superstar young athletes are relegated to not even making finals, it can be difficult to adjust and be patient, but as more and more coaches realise, this can ultimately help the athletes be stronger.
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