"Coach Wentz poses an immediate threat to the health of any athlete she coaches both physically and mentally. She will lecture, berate, and scold athletes for communicating with her as if she was one of their friends while she herself sends out emails and texts that look to be written by a 6 year old. She loves to share about her personal life often to the point where it becomes uncomfortable for athletes. Her training plans are a one size fits all model which are based on the Jack Daniel’s running book and Elle St. Pierre’s college training. Paces and mileage are assigned without consideration for an athletes individual needs or for any factor of us being human beings. It is expected that we finish every run and rep as if we are a machine and if we don’t we are soft or unfit. This leads to injuries on injuries, nearly every teammate of mine has had a minor injury that has turned into a major injury due to Stacie forcing us to push through. She is completely unorganized with workouts, often just copying and pasting training plans and workout spreadsheets from previous years without bothering to even change the dates on the pages. At practice she carries the unprofessionalism with her as she will punish athletes for small mistakes and gossip about athletes to other athletes on the team. In one case a van door wasn’t fully closed and water bottles and spikes fell out when she drove away. She blamed this on the team and decided a fair punishment was that we all had to run the 3 miles back to school carrying our spikes and water, she then walked around the track telling athletes about how incompetent their fellow athletes are right in front of us. Stacie wants to have open feedback from athletes but is unable to receive any negative feedback and puts up a wall of intimidation to prevent any athletes from feeling comfortable enough to approach her. Stacie is completely focused on boosting her own image as a coach and every accomplishment by an athlete is completely credited to her while every failure is the fault of the athletes. Don’t be fooled by her resume of athletes who had the unfortunate luck of having her as their coach while they found success. She is knowledgeable about the sport and every once in a while her training can work for athletes but isn’t without the athlete being able to make tweaks and changes to the training when necessary. She is not a coach that an athlete can trust and follow blindly, they must have an understanding of what works for them and be able to make adjustments. I would not recommend that anybody takes the risk of being in the same facility as Stacie."

"Coach Wentz is great on an individual coaching level however when working with a bigger team she can struggle. Her professionalism can be spotty at times"

"She does not know how to coach mid distance. Not a terrible distance coach, but a horrible mid distance coach. "

"Out of my experience freshman year for track, Stacie Wentz was the worst head coach of any organization I have ever had. I do not have enough characters to illustrate all unintelligent things she did. "

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"Awful. Everyone quit. Only shows interest in 3 people on the team and hates everyone else."

"Has made the program what it is today through a lot of hard work but likes to let everyone know how much she is working. Not very approachable."