Atlantic Region DIII XC

I was wondering when this thread would start up. Please, please, let the Cortland - NYU folks start slamming each other. It just makes my day.

Does anyone know if Colin Sanders from Vassar is returning this year? He turned into someone to be reckoned with, at least in cross.

cortland to win as a team.

mark stevens (UR) as the individual champ.

Hany will choke, justlike last year.

My 2007 picks:

Men:

1. NYU

2. Cortland

3. TCNJ

4. Ithaca

5. Rochester

Women:

1. Ithaca

2. Plattsburgh

3. TCNJ

4. Geneseo

5. Cortland

NYU sucks. Everyone in the UAA hates each other, but they hate NYU the most.

NYRUNNER07 wrote:

if Hany is healthy for this cross season he'll be tough to beat

Unless God steps in, right? Or something to that effect....

Beringer from Brockport should be a force, even with a poor track showing last year.

SUNY G got a real good incoming Freshman class. STREB FTW!!!

I have my doubts that this is the real NY Runner, from the origional DIII Atlantic Region thread.

Streb is an idiot, I my bet is he'll fail out by midmarking of the first semester.

Peter Kosgei

Last I heard, Streb won't be attending SUNY G in the fall. Unless something has changed that I'm not aware of, that is.

I think there is a lot of room for some surprises indivudially and teamwise in the region. Cortland and NYU will go 1-2 far ahead of the rest of the field, with TCNJ, SUNY G and, surprise surprise, RIT rounding out the top 5 (so really not a lot of surprise in there, although I think RIT will have to hit on all cylinders to go better than 5th this year). Rochester and St. Lawrence will challenge for the 4th and 5th spots, and I would give the biggest chance of an upset to St. Lawrence.

My top 7 individuals (based on last years performances) for regionals would be Kosgei, Nally, Phillips, Donohoe, Stevens, Abdallah, and Greenlaw. Nash, Berube, and Burdick could also threaten. I'm probably forgetting a couple of other people, but I'm pretty tired, so thats is as good as it is going to get for now.

I would put my money on UR over RIT. NYU and Cortland will be 1,2.

Peter Kosgei? The D1 AA? Im guessing thats a joke

In the UAA, dont hate NYU for real, just hate the fact that they have a solid program...in this day and age in competative sports, hating a team is the highest for of respect, and thats what I have for NYU right now.

RFXCrunner wrote:

My top 7 individuals (based on last years performances) for regionals would be Kosgei, Nally, Phillips, Donohoe, Stevens, Abdallah, and Greenlaw. Nash, Berube, and Burdick could also threaten. I'm probably forgetting a couple of other people, but I'm pretty tired, so thats is as good as it is going to get for now.

These are based on last years performances? This Greenlaw kid was 42nd last year. How about Guerreiro (4th), Schneider (3rd), Sanders, Williams, Dubois, Kopnicki, McCarthy who were all ahead of Burdick (19th). Who the hell are Nash, Berube and Kosgei? How about pickin people who have proven themselves on the national level such as the 8 All americans returning this year.

RFXCrunner should be banned from this site for making unintelligent predictions. Who's with me?

Teams

1/2. NYU/Cortland, gonna be a toss up.

3. TCNJ

4/5. SUNY G/RIT

Top 8: (No order)

Nally (Cortland)

Dubois (Cortland)

Schneider (NYU)

Abdallah (NYU)

Williams (NYU)

Guerriero (TCNJ)

Donohoe (St. Lawrence)

Sanders (Vassar) (Is he back for another year?)

Wildcards: (Could threaten)

Greenlaw (Cortland)

DeRusso (Cortland)

Burdick (RIT)

Stevens (UR)

Kopnicki (TCNJ)

McCarthy (NYU)

Kosgei, you know, that kid who won the steeple outdoors this spring with a sub-9 time? Yeah him... I would say that gives him a solid ranking in the top-10, and certainly a big for pre-season favorite. Berube would be Genny's Frosh (now Soph) who was their early season #1 totally tearing up all the courses he ran on. I believe he was just behind Donohoe a number of times (and he may have beaten him, I'm not sure)

How about you learn a little more about your region?

Ech... I told you I was tired. When I said Nash, I meant Sanders. For some reason, I was getting the guy from Vassar mixed up with a 400m hurdler who I knew in HS. Last year's performances incluse track performances too, which is why I'm picking Kosgei up front. He is damn impressive.

Good catch - I had no idea who Nash was and didn't want to be a hypocrite haha.