MVXC 2024 Season Meeting
Hello All! It was great to see all of you at the cross-country pre-season meeting today. Below are copies of the slides used today. The consensus from everyone at the meeting was that 7am should be the start time for…
Coach Flatow
Double Graduation and Time to Head Home
Honestly, I thought that at my age, graduation might not seem like a big deal…but I was wrong. My third college graduation (after undergrad at Santa Clara University and an MBA at the University of Chicago–40 years ago!) felt huge.…
Championship Twinning!
These are my last few days in Baltimore. I’m not-so-patiently waiting on my instructors to finish grading my final papers and grinding through my thesis capstone. And…we have championships to celebrate, coast-to-coast! MVTF! Congratulations, ladies, on your El Camino League…
Cross Country 2024 Information Meeting
Yes! Coach Flatow will be back soon! About time, you say. Quit messing around with that UPenn program and come home. Well, it is finally happening! There will be an in-person meeting to discuss the 2024 cross-country season. We plan travel,…
Penn Relays, MV Alumni Update, and more
Hello, athletes! It is hard to believe, but I’m nearly done with my UPenn program. I have uploaded all my final papers for this semester, there is some final polishing on a group project, and then all that is left…
Running Cross Country in the Fall?
If you plan on running cross country this Fall, and your uniform fits h you want to, you can hang on to it! Fill out the attached form and bring it to your coach w uniform return is organized, or you can…
Catch Up With Coach Flatow at Hop and Penn
I have a few good stories for my friends back at Monta Vista! A lot has happened in the past few weeks. Workouts With Hop Finally, it feels like Spring may be here to stay. Every time we had some…
Hopkins Update: Outdoor Season Opener!
For Californians, it is bizarre that the East Coast schools had their first track meet of the outdoor season the same day that Monta Vista was going to Stanford and Quicksilver. Yet that’s what happened…last Saturday March 30, Johns Hopkins…
Message From Hopkins: NCAAs
For Californians, the indoor track season seems weird. We don’t do indoors growing up with track. So it probably seems bizarre to the current Monta Vista track athletes that a Johns Hopkins season ended last Saturday, while MVTF has one…
Coach Flatow’s First Meet At Hop Will Be Hard To Top
Coach Flatow’s first meet at Johns Hopkins will be a difficult act to follow; both the men’s and the women’s teams defending their conference indoor championships, with plenty of time up on the podium in all events. I’m not going to…
Centennial Conference Indoor Championships This Weekend
Hello MV! I wanted to give you all another update on my time with Johns Hopkins Blue Jays track team. This weekend is the Centennial Conference indoor championships, and Hop is so fired up! Our last workout before…
Day One At Hop
Today was my first day coaching at Johns Hopkins! What I tell you next is going to make you think that this is a perfect place for Coach Flatow…warm up started at 6:30 am, the first rep of the workout was…