Oklahoma State strong at Stanford

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14 years ago 05/03/2009 5:30pm EDT

Excellent effort by Oklahoma State at Stanford. People always say how hard it is to get every guy on your team to run fast on the same day, but they had the following yesterday:

section 2:

4 German Fernandez Oklahoma State 13:31.78

6 Ryan Vail Oklahoma State 13:37.02

10 John Kosgei Oklahoma State 13:49.65

section 3:

5 Colby Lowe Oklahoma State 13:57.06

22 Ryan Prentice Oklahoma State 14:27.20

Nice work.

Certainly, many teams over time COULD have done this but because of so few races in college and not loading up one event I bet few schools have ever had FOUR at sub-14:00 on the same day. Hell, a school as good as Wisco had a school record of "just" 13:37 until fairly recently (set by Easker back in '85 or so).

14 years ago 05/03/2009 5:37pm EDT

re: darkness

You only included those who ran well. What about the others? What about all the guys who didn't run at Stanford at all?

My hat's off to the OSU boys, but don't exclude data.

14 years ago 05/03/2009 9:31pm EDT

re: letsbefairnow.com

How would you recommend we judge the runners who didn't run at Stanford? Are they failures because they didn't PR because they were staying home?

Proof positive that no matter what you post and no matter how innocuous or encouraging, there is always some bitter douchebag that will try to "correct" what you have written.

Good job man, hope that made you feel better.

14 years ago 05/03/2009 10:00pm EDT

re: letsbefairnow.com

No he did not. He foregot Alex Ruiz's 29:17 in the 10k. In the OSU roster his previous 10k best is listed at 31:18. I'd say he ran well.

14 years ago 05/03/2009 10:04pm EDT

re: oldoldrunner

Thanks for letting us know, Alex.

14 years ago 05/03/2009 10:27pm EDT

re: oldoldrunner

What about Matt BS, Fleming, Chirchir?

The OP said every runner on the team, and that is why I brought up the ones who didn't run. Obviously you can't judge someone who didn't race, but people often judge an entire team/program/coach just by the top runner or few top runners. Considering there are 18 distance runners on their roster, it might make sense to look at more than their top 5 or so.

I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea. Again, my hat's off to the OSU boys. Almost all who did run ran well, very well. Those who didnt run as well still ran okay, so no big deal.

I probably shouldn't have said anything at all.

The truth is deep.

14 years ago 05/03/2009 11:02pm EDT

re: Salvador Sanchez

I am not Alex, but you are a Dee Dee.

14 years ago 05/04/2009 10:39am EDT

re: darkness

Adams state at Mt. Sac this year:

Aaron Braun: 13:36

Brian Medigovich: 13:40

Reuben Chebon-Mwei: 13:53

Florien Theofile: 13:59

Luke Craig: 14:05

Ryan McNiff: 14:19

And they're Division 2

14 years ago 05/04/2009 11:28am EDT

re: D2 Hero

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