I was looking at northeast regional results, and noticed Manhattan College did not have a complete woman's team; in fact, they were the only team I could find in all the regional meets that did not field a full team.
Why bring four runners to such a meet? Does anyone out there have a good explanation for such a decision? Why would an AD financially approve such a thing? Weird.
Maybe one of the bitches got lost. Hell if I know. Why are you asking me? Get off my back!!!
i know quite a few schools that did that, i know that in one particular case the reason was because only a few guys wanted to run regionals and they weren't going to qualify as a team. They decided it was better to begin concentrating on track.
It seems odd to bring four runners to a Division 1 championship cross country race. Would a soccer team bring nine players to an NCAA tournament game?
No because soccer is a team sport, xc is individual and team. If you aren't going to qualify as a team, and the kids agree its better to concentrate on track, they why bring them and beat them up with another 10k.
May be there were injured runners on a small team -- should the healthy runners not have the chance to run the regional race after training for it for all season?
It probably helps recruiting to say "we go to the NCAA regional race every year".
Statsboy wrote:
It seems odd to bring four runners to a Division 1 championship cross country race. Would a soccer team bring nine players to an NCAA tournament game?
There will be a lot at Nationals without a complete team, they are called individuals.