Name the best 7 from any single NCAA squad (all time)

Oregon, in alphabetical order:

Chapa, Dellinger, McChesney, Moore, Prefontaine, Rupp, Salazar.

Coached by the Bowerman of the '60s.

UTEP, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Villanova, WSU

Arkansas

1. Alastair Cragg

2. Joe Falcon

3. Josephat Boit

4. Godfrey Siamusaiye

5. Reuben Reina

6. Daniel Lincoln

7. Peter Kosgei?

Can't really think of a 7th, as there are so many to choose from. But as for competing against the all-star Colorado, Wisconsin, UTEP, and Stanford teams....i don't really know. If I had to pick an order, I'd go..

1. Colorado

2. UTEP

3. Arkansas

4. Wisconsin

5. Stanford

^^for the all star competition

Wisconsin? Each individual at his peak?

Simon Bairu

Chris Solinsky

Matt Tegenkamp

Matt Downin

Tim Hacker

Matt Withrow

Jason Vanderhoof

?

How about the ol' Cardinal?

Gabe Jennings

Don Sage

Jonathan Riley

Ryan Hall

Michael Stember

Ian Dobson

Nef Aria or Louis Luchini?

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mideast?? wrote:

Arkansas

1. Alastair Cragg

2. Joe Falcon

3. Josephat Boit

4. Godfrey Siamusaiye

5. Reuben Reina

6. Daniel Lincoln

7. Peter Kosgei?

Can't really think of a 7th, as there are so many to choose from. But as for competing against the all-star Colorado, Wisconsin, UTEP, and Stanford teams....i don't really know. If I had to pick an order, I'd go..

1. Colorado

2. UTEP

3. Arkansas

4. Wisconsin

5. Stanford

^^for the all star competition

Jason Bunston would be in there.

Iowa State would be tought to beat:

Jonah Koech

Yobes Ondieki

John Brown

John Nuttall

Ian Robinson

Corey Ihmels

(Insert 7th here)

irun wrote:

Wisconsin? Each individual at his peak?

Simon Bairu

Chris Solinsky

Matt Tegenkamp

Matt Downin

Tim Hacker

Matt Withrow

Jason Vanderhoof

?

john easker is in wisconsin's all time top 5 (he was 10th in the world xc meet in neuchatel in 1986).

So Far for Washington State I have...

Henry Rono

Bernard Lagat

Peter Koech

Samson Kimobwa

Gerry Lindgren

who else fills it out?

I agree that Easker should be on the list. One of his greatest races was winning the USA World Cross Country team trials in 1987. Pat Porter was second.

Would Steve Lacey make the top seven for Wisconsin?

alright washington state's list to pick from:

Henry Rono

Bernard Lagat

Peter Koech

Samson Kimobwa

Gerry Lindgren

Joh Ngeno

Joel Cheryuiot

Josephat Kapkory

Joshua Kimeto

Richard Tuwei

Shaping up to be a ridiculous meet already!

Vanderhoof?

Go back and look at all the Wisconsin runners who finished top 5 at NCAA's.

Bairu

Hacker

Easker

This would be the solid top three

Tegenkamp and Solinsky are the two greatest distance runners to come out of Wisconsin but I don't recall them finishing up frontin cross country nationals.

Downin finished 4th twice.

Withrow probably would have finshed top 5 had he run his freshman year and not redshirted.

Lacy, Fry were top 5.

Scott Jenkins was a three time all American and top 10 finsher. Its a tough call when you compare different eras. If you're ttalking all time great cross country all-star teams Oregon, Colorado, and Arkansas have the edge on the grat WIsconsin program.

Downin, Schoenfelder, and Vanderhoof went 4-6-8 once.

Bairu

Hacker

Easker

Downin

Tegenkamp

Solinsky

Lacy for top 7 though

German Fernandez

how about Alabama?

1. David Kimani

2. Tim Broe

3. German Beltran

4. Steve Bolt

5. Chris Mutai

6. Augustus Maiyo

7. Tyson David

Chip Douglas wrote:

Fantasy XC meet, each school gets to choose their best 7 in school history, presumably all during the prime of their careers...

How about CU rolling out this line-up in an all-star fantasy meet?!:

1. Ritz

2. Goucher

3. J. Torres

4. Culpepper

5. Vaughn

6. E. Torres

7. Schoolmeester

alternate: Adam Batliner

Chip I would bump Schoolmeester or Torres or even Cullpeppar for Mark Scrutton. He was the NCAA Individual champ from 1982. Colorado might not have the overall depth historically of Oregon, Wisconsin, Arkansas, (and I'm not going to include UTEP) in this but since a meet is scored with just the top 5 I would say Colorado would come out on top.

Bif Bradley wrote:

Vanderhoof?

Go back and look at all the Wisconsin runners who finished top 5 at NCAA's.

Bairu

Hacker

Easker

This would be the solid top three

Tegenkamp and Solinsky are the two greatest distance runners to come out of Wisconsin but I don't recall them finishing up frontin cross country nationals.

Downin finished 4th twice.

Withrow probably would have finshed top 5 had he run his freshman year and not redshirted.

Lacy, Fry were top 5.

Scott Jenkins was a three time all American and top 10 finsher. Its a tough call when you compare different eras. If you're ttalking all time great cross country all-star teams Oregon, Colorado, and Arkansas have the edge on the grat WIsconsin program.

Solinsky was third in 2005 when Wisconsin won NCAA xc. They were 1, 3, 9, with Bairu, Solinsky, and Withrow

Another Colorado consideration would be Ted Castaneda.

Second to Pre in the NCAA 3-mile in 1973.