D3 Glory Days Podcast

Read the Proposal below!

Proposal One

Change the way National Championships are scored in Track & Field so that every finisher is scoring for her/his team.

Rationale:

*Raises the competitive quality …

Donna Ricks has been the Head Coach of the Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field team at Carleton College for 30 years. They have multiple individual national champions in track, countless All-Amer…

After winning the 2022 National Championship, Johns Hopkins became the winningest women’s program in D3 history. Adding to two of those titles were Alex Ross and Sara Stephenson. Alex and Sara led Ho…

When Joe Backus felt a nagging in his hip, he sought a second opinion to make sure it wasn’t serious. A few days later he learned he had a femoral stress fracture, a hip impingement and a torn labrum…

Fresh off their repeat wins, Alex Phillip and Kassie Parker come back to D3 Glory Days to share insights about their win, what’s happened since the last time we spoke, and what they’re looking forwar…

Our National meet preview episode covers off the big storylines of this weekend. We go over the regional results, what surprised us this season and gave our national meet predictions. Let us know who…

We’re back with another contenders episode. Our guests today not only have individual aspirations, but will be battling for their teams as well. Each team they represent is in the top 10 and will be …

We turn to the current state of D3 XC and review everything that's happened so far this season. We break down the big interregional meets and give predictions for the end of the year. This goes with …

From a young age, Cris Gutierrez fell in love with the sport of running. The gym class mile was something he was always excited for and after a rough go in the team sports, a friend convinced him to …

Fresh off a fantastic debut marathon in Chicago, Jessie Cardin joins us to discuss her 2:33 marathon! Debut marathons typically go one of two ways: a glow up or a blow up and Cardin definitely had a …

After a strong start to their season, we wanted to hear from Annika Urban and Ethan Gregg on what’s been going well for them. Annika is a senior at Emory and Ethan is a senior at UW-Lacrosse

Annika i…

For the 100th episode, we had to go out and bring you all a legend. Please welcome Bill Rodgers to D3 Glory Days. The 4x Boston and NYC Marathon winner, Olympian and Wesleyan graduate walked us throu…

An unofficial series is coming to D3 Glory Days called ‘The Lost Season.’ We’re going to be interviewing those who lost their senior track season due to COVID-19. While many want to forget that time,…

An unofficial series is coming to D3 Glory Days called ‘The Lost Season.’ We’re going to be interviewing those who lost their senior track season due to COVID-19. While many want to forget that time,…

You asked some questions - we gave some answers. We'll do a full XC preview here soon. Stu is on Vacation (bad timing).

The video that got Noah and Stu Hyped - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTwZNU…

On this week’s episode, we sat down with University of Rochester grad, Dr. Dave Moller. Rochester went through a series of transitions during Dave’s time which allowed him to be a D1, D2, and D3 All-…

A gallon of milk, a pound of pasta and a pound of ground beef is what transformed Sean Donnelly. A self proclaimed uncoordinated kid, Sean took the untraditional route to the throws. He left the base…

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Although “national champions” and “Loras women’s track and field team” seem almost synonymous these days, all dynasties have a beginning. In this e…

“I think it was because I didn't have the right set up that I wondered what my potential is if everything was going wrong in college then what happens when everything goes right? It was curiosity tha…

“You don't know how many World Championships you go to. Hopefully a lot more after this. But the goal is to go in there and go to finals and compete for a medal.”

Being the youngest in a family of gr…