Secrets to Success

Jim O’Brien
Arcadia HS, Arcadia, CA

The 2010 boys Nike Cross Nationals champion coach discusses having lost several of his top runners from what was arguably one of the best high school boys teams of all-time, yet still qualifying to NXN the next year.  He anwers the question of which he gets more joy out of: the dominant team of ‘10, or the challenge of putting together the puzzle of a less talented team the next year.  

Interview by Chris Nickinson