2013 Conference Heroes/Goats - Let us know about them.

"Was their a total disaster?" It sometimes genuinely pains me that this site is run by Ivy grads.

Anyway, as Brett Hoover and others have observed, it may be time to declare Abbey D'Agostino the G.O.A.T. for the Heptagonal (Ivy League) championships. She broke the Heps record in the 5,000m, then soloed a 4:32 mile ("leading" the men's milers for at least five laps). That mile was a meet record by 11 seconds, and she led four other women under the old mark. She also ran a great anchor on the 4x880y--wish I had the split on that.

The Illinois 4x400 anchor gets a bit of the goat designation. Look at the USTFCCCA awards [http://www.ustfccca.org/2013/02/featured/record-breakers-and-world-leaders-among-national-athlete-of-the-week-winners]

Deon Lendore, Texas A&M 45.15/45.23 and a 44.51 come-from-behind anchor.

Honorable Mention: Alexander Ziegler, Virginia Tech; Japheth Cato (6090 Hept, Wisconsin; Jack Whitt, Oral Roberts; Marquis Dendy 8.25/27+ LJ and Eddie Lovett, Florida; Casimir Loxsom 1:15.42 Am best 600 and Robby Creese 1.46, Penn State; Elijah Greer, 1:46 800 Oregon

Makeba Alcide, Arkansas 4563 CR Pent

Honorable Mention: Betsy Saina, Iowa State; Aurieyall Scott, UCF; Kimberlyn Duncan; LSU

Division II Men – Derek Bredy, MSU-Moorhead (Senior)

Honorable Mention: Laban Sialo, Central Missouri; Drew Windle, Ashland

Division II Women – Shauna-Kay Creary, District of Columbia

In the WIAC DIII meet, UW-Oshkosh scored 34 in the SP and 22 in the WT but still fell 20+ short of UW-LaCrosse

anthony rotich-conference USA

won the 5k, ran on 2nd place DMR, 2nd in mile to O'Hare and won the 3k.

That's a lot of running in one weekend.

26mi235 wrote:

The Illinois 4x400 anchor gets a bit of the goat designation.

For clarifying purposes, "G.O.A.T." generally stands for "greatest of all time."

come on now wrote:

anthony rotich-conference USA

won the 5k, ran on 2nd place DMR, 2nd in mile to O'Hare and won the 3k.

That's a lot of running in one weekend.

Dani Walker of Lipscomb named MVP of Atlantic Sun Conference after winning the 3000m by 14 seconds in 9:37 (13 seconds faster than conference record), winning the Mile by 10 seconds, second fastest time in conference history 4:43, winning the 5000m by 24 seconds with third fastest time in conference history 16:59, then running a 56 second split to anchor the 4x400 relay 30min later. She led every step of the 3k, Mile and 5k and set school records in all four events.

Not a traditional conference... but the NEICAAA (New England) meet was last weekend.

Senior, Aaron Radden (20.96i PR and D1 second team iAA) from Central Connecticut State University (Northeast Conference) completed his four year sweep on the NEICAAA 200m with a winning finals time of 21.01. He also took the 60m title in '11,'12,'13 for a 3 year sweep. There was no 60m held in 2010, it was a 55m and Aaron placed 7th in that final.

G.O.A.T?

-New Englander

Pat Casey in the Big 12. Won the 1000, mile, and DMR. 5 races in 2 days.

CMU Men's and women's teams are terrible. The this press release is a joke. Coach says that are headed in the right directions! They finished 5th of 5 in the men's meet and 8th of 9th in the women's meet. How in the world can anyone say they are headed in the right direction! FIRE THIS GUY! FIRE THEM ALL! GO HURON!

http://www.cmuchippewas.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46421&SPID=4208&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=206491558&DB_OEM_ID=10500

ooooatmeal wrote:

For clarifying purposes, "G.O.A.T." generally stands for "greatest of all time."

Not in this context. The "goat" is a term used to describe the worst member of a group.

West Point honors the lowest GPA for a graduating cadet, "The Goat"

FSU women ran 10:57 DMR for #2 in the country by themselves after the first 800 of the 1200 leg. They lapped everyone but 2nd and 3rd place (almost caught third place). Anchored by Colleen Quigley who collided with a lapped runner early and still ran ~4:38 split

Derrick Drouin broke the heptathlon high jump world record

mookie blalock wrote:

Pat Casey in the Big 12. Won the 1000, mile, and DMR. 5 races in 2 days.

against stellar competition:

kithuka, merber, munsch in the dmr anchor leg

sub 4 milers mcgregor, munsch, legesse, stillin, and tom farrell (unofficially closing in 1:56)

and then beating 3:57 miler raul botezan in the 1000

West Point Sophomore Lisa Junta deserves honorable GOAT mention for a nice double 5K/3K in the Patriot League Championships (2/15-17). She was 16:52/9:44 for the win and personal best in each event.

NE-10 men's side. Umass Lowell announced they were moving up to Division 1 a few days before conferences. Stonehill promptly beats them by 2.5 points.

http://www.northeast10.org/sports/track/2012-13/Indoor_Championship/02.16.13_NE10_ITF_Championships

GOAT

HOWS THIS ONE

Nebraska's freshman HH ranked second going into the finals of the big 10 FALSE STARTS! I think Nebraska could of used his 8,or 6 or even 5 points to there team total. They would of won the Big 10 championship! Jus a freshman. Dont wont to pile on too much.

I second the Pat Casey and Abbey D'Agostino nominations for best performances.

As for the goat (goat, not G.O.A.T.) performances: Big 12 women, SEC women, Big 10 M&W, and Heps M&W were all decided by 5 or fewer points. Find anyone who was a favorite on a losing team and finished worse than 5th or so, there's your goat.

Here's a team goat for ya, Winthrop last on the men's side (only 13 points) and tied for last on the women's side (25) in the very weak Big South.

ooooatmeal wrote:

26mi235 wrote:

The Illinois 4x400 anchor gets a bit of the goat designation.

For clarifying purposes, "G.O.A.T." generally stands for "greatest of all time."

Yes, goat was in the title of the thread, not my terminology, besides that guy might be too fast for any goat but a GOAT. Also to clarify, the whole crew from Illinois did a fabulous job, winning the women's comp and coming a hare's breath from winning the mens when they were NOT one of the favorites shows how well they did, including big points from Illinois anchor (without even half his 16 points they are in no position to break into the top four).

1 Pamilton, Stephon Illinois 46.07.

1 Faust, Timothy Ohio State 21.12

2 Stryganek, Brandon Illinois 21.16

3 Pamilton, Stephon Illinois 21.17

sprcoach 19.99 wrote:

GOAT

[HOW'S] THIS ONE[?]

Nebraska's freshman [HHer] ranked second going into the [final] of the big 10 FALSE STARTS! I think Nebraska could [have] used his 8,or 6 or even 5 points [for] [their] team total. They would [have] won the Big 10 championship! [Just] a freshman. [Don't] [want] to pile on too much.

Sprint coach, huh? No kidding. Thanks for sustaining people's stereotype of sprinters' education level.