MIAC Cross-Country 2009

Pre Season Regional rankings are up.

http://www.ustfccca.org/rankings/division-iii-rankings

Results from yesterday:

Northland Invite (Gustavus):

Men-http://gustavus.edu/athletics/mxc/archives/2009/northland_results.txt

Women-

http://gustavus.edu/athletics/wxc/archives/2009/Northland_results.txt

CSB/CSC Dual:

http://www.stkatesathletics.com/Pdfs/wcross/2009/9/1/CSB-SCUdualresults09.html

i don't quite get those central region rankings, or the way the central teams are ranked in the national poll. yes, wesleyan should be the favorite, as they won last year and return everybody. they also have a guy that steepled 9:17 last spring but didn't run on their cross-country nationals squad. but how is st. olaf behind st. john's and grinnell? ruon and marotz have performed better than anybody on either of those teams, and lambert is pretty comparable to the #1 guys at st. john's and grinnell. yes, both of those teams return a lot of guys, but i don't see how their returning depth makes up for what they sacrifice at the front. hard to see either of those teams cracking top 20 at nationals, whereas i can see wesleyan and st. olaf both in the top 15.

Don't be a tool

can they really take it? I think so.

plausible - i just dont dont see who's going to pick up the slack in olaf's 4/5 spots. nuss? rivers? some standout frosh?

olaf definately has the front runners, but the johnnies are deep and have some surprising talen this year. and augsburg? i wouldn't overlook them either; not as a national contender, but a threat in the conference meet.

SMOKE WEED ALL DAY!!!!!!!!!! DONT GIVE A F**K!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OLAF-HAMLINE-U of M 5K results:

http://www.stolaf.edu/athletics/crossctry/men/media/2009-10/results/2009-09-05.htm

MAC-UST 5K results:

http://athletics.macalester.edu/custompages/pdf/09_0906_summit_cup_results.pdf

Augsburg/Bethel Dual Meet results:

Men-http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2009/9/5/mcc090509.aspx?path=mcross

Women-http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2009/9/5/wcc090509.aspx?path=wcross

Who is the surprising talent at SJU? Besides guys who ran in their top 7 last year. It didn't look like they got any star recruits.

I would say Chris Massey is very capable of being a 4/5 man for any team in the MIAC.

Midworst wrote:Who is the surprising talent at SJU? Besides guys who ran in their top 7 last year. It didn't look like they got any star recruits.

Maurice Greene (the G.O.A.T.) wrote:

The recruits of St. John's are real blue chippers.

Speaking of chips.....

Conference Predictions: Good luck runners.

Men:

St. Olaf

St. Thomas

St. John's

Hamline

Carleton

Augsburg

Bethel

Gustavus

Macalester

St. Mary's

Concordia

Women:

Bethel

St. Thomas

Carleton

Gustavus

St. Olaf

St. Bens

Hamline

Concordia

St. Catherines

St. Mary's

Augsburg

Greeno smoked the field yesterday at Les Duke by over 30 seconds, with Ekstrom in second. Gamble was all the way down in 17th and Ruon was nowhere to be seen. Bethel finished as the top MIAC team in 5th.

Results:

Men-http://www.grinnell.edu/athletics/Mcross/includes/Men%20Les%20Duke.html

Women-http://www.grinnell.edu/athletics/Mcross/includes/Women%20Les%20Duke.html

Looks like St Olaf just ran freshmen for the most part. Would've been interesting to see where they would have stacked up with a full squad. Anybody know what the deal was with the SJU Invite getting canceled?

Apparently rain.

oles and johnnies wrote:

Looks like St Olaf just ran freshmen for the most part. Would've been interesting to see where they would have stacked up with a full squad. Anybody know what the deal was with the SJU Invite getting canceled?

There was about 2 1/2 inches of rain in about 45 min and the trails were all underwater and in some areas washed away.

Average DII Distance Guy wrote:

There was about 2 1/2 inches of rain in about 45 min and the trails were all underwater and in some areas washed away.

I guess some people just are not tougf enougf.

Chips Ahoy! wrote:

I guess some people just are not tougf enougf.

I guess some people don't know how to spell...