New England DIII Track 2014-2015

No DMR love?

800 - A battle between the NESCAC foes - Mitchell Black and Jacob Ellis

Mile - David Chelimo, Todd Ford, John Stansel

3K - Williams trio of Cotton,Mazaheri, and Inde will be strong. Turissini returns as one of the top guys in the 3k. Chelimo should also do pretty well in the 3k.

5k - Cotton will probably be the top guy.

DMR - Seems like a weak year for New England DMRs. Amherst appears to be the top DMR coming into the season. They had a strong fall, so they should do well. MIT should also be in the mix. Who else? Bates? Bowdoin? Midd?

^ Don't forget MIT trio of Wenk, Godwin, and Deyo. Seems like MIT finally figured out how to train properly and they should factor in the 3k,5k. They could also put together a strong DMR.

My question is, will Mitch's twitter account be active? Mitchblows gives insight into the mind of a champion.

WhaleHunter wrote:

800 - A battle between the NESCAC foes - Mitchell Black and Jacob Ellis

Mile - David Chelimo, Todd Ford, John Stansel

3K - Williams trio of Cotton,Mazaheri, and Inde will be strong. Turissini returns as one of the top guys in the 3k. Chelimo should also do pretty well in the 3k.

5k - Cotton will probably be the top guy.

DMR - Seems like a weak year for New England DMRs. Amherst appears to be the top DMR coming into the season. They had a strong fall, so they should do well. MIT should also be in the mix. Who else? Bates? Bowdoin? Midd?

800 - One of that pair will move up to the mile so they don't have to duel each other every meet; my money is on Black going to the mile.

Mile - Chelimo and Ford seem right, also throw in a random MIT kid for a few meets before he blows up at the end of the year.

3k - Cotton has to be the runaway favorite assuming Chelimo sticks to the mile, otherwise I can see Chelimo giving Cotton a run for his money if it comes down to a kick. New England should have a good showing at NCAAs in the 3k and 5k though, I'll be disappointed if every race ends up being tactical like it usually is. The Midwest always has more qualifiers than New England because their 3-4-5 xc guys are willing to crush the first half of the longer distance races in hopes that they qualify which pulls along their stars, while we piss around at every meet trying to score team points.

5k - Again the nod has to go to Cotton, again with the chance of a lot more guys than usual qualifying.

DMR - Weak? No. No way. Not with the man, the myth, the legend returning. J.R.R. Tolkien actually named "The Return of the King" after him. That's right. Tully's back. Two back-to-back Smirnoff 2k's, 9:48.56 for an NCAA record. You heard it here first.

CDPlove wrote:

My question is, will Mitch's twitter account be active? Mitchblows gives insight into the mind of a champion.

Coach Norton has tracked down and used some connections at twitter to insure that no Tufts athletes will be impersonated on the micro-blogging platform

Ensure

weak? wrote:

800 - One of that pair will move up to the mile so they don't have to duel each other every meet; my money is on Black going to the mile.

Mile - Chelimo and Ford seem right, also throw in a random MIT kid for a few meets before he blows up at the end of the year.

Other good or potentially good 800/milers after a brief tfrrs lookup. Not including Frosh who could be good (i.e. Hussein, Godwin). Don't think these guys will top Black/Ellis or Chelimo.

800-

Desmond, 1:51 few years ago led to AA at 800. 1:52 2014.

MIT's Parker/Hunter, NCAA qualifiers indoor and outdoor respectively.

Maybe McCauley? Much better results from Outdoor.

Mile -

Turissini, almost AA in XC and top returner form NE Indoors. 4:15 / 8:19.

Schaaf, indoor eligibility? If so, almost AA in XC as well, 4:10/3:50. Nationals In/Out.

Stansel, ran 4:12 last year and has had a better XC season.

Sukeforth, also ran 4:12 off of much less impressive XC season two years ago.

Dark Horse - Cattanach, only because I saw his log on r2w.

Might be others.

Schaaf is out of eligibility I think. Watch out for my man Jamie Norton in the mile, he can run a 4:06 so definitely one of the top guys.

Don't sleep on Veer from Tufts in the 800 either - he was AA last indoor and ran 1:20 point in the 600.

Thoughts on the 4x8 at new englands? Tufts seems like a lock with 2 AA in the 800, plus a history of middle distance depth. MIT could challenge with one more top-notch runner as they have 2 national qualifiers as well. Williams ran 7:3low last year with a young squad and Bowdoin won NESCACs and new englands last year but is without Coby.

Top 5 could be:

Tufts- the best 1-2 punch with arguably 2 of the top 3 runner in the region at 800

Williams - great outdoor 4x8 with solid young talent and lots of depth

Bowdoin - a solid anchor could keep them in contention but too much ground to make up after losing Horowitz to put them in front.

MIT - probably should be higher up but their top guys never seem to have good days on the same day so I'm banking on a choke

Amherst - With some new talent showing up in XC and returning Turissini and part of their 7:3x team, they could be as high as top 3 if they focus on it

Obviously a lot changes if teams run an A DMR team instead of an A 4x8.

3k - Turissini is the top returner with his 8:19, but I wouldn't say he's the favorite by any means. We didn't see Chelimo indoors last year, and I would imagine his 3:49 speed and 14:47 endurance translates quite well. Cotton also skipped indoors last year. He only has a PR of 8:30 (flat track), but he is more of a strength runner (I can't imagine him breaking 4:15 in a mile). Dan Crowley is the second returner, and he ran 8:30 as a sophomore. Inde, Mazaheri, and Stansel have also run in the low 8:30s. Wood from Middlebury could also be in the mix (ran 8:2x two seasons ago).

1. Chelimo, Colby

2. Cotton, Williams

3. Turissini, Amherst

4. Crowley, Amherst

5. Stansel, Bates

5k - This is absolutely loaded this year. New England should have multiple qualifiers to nationals. Cotton is the favorite, with Chelimo on his heals like he was for most of the XC season. Through in studs like Mazaheri, Inde, Wenck, Deyo, Godwin, Xie, Hale, Hussein, Wood, and Nichols, and you've got yourself a hell of a race.

1. Cotton, Williams

2. Chelimo, Colby

3. Mazaheri, Williams

4. Wenck, MIT

5. Hussein, Amherst

4_Real? wrote:

No DMR love?

Middlebury FTW

Anyone know where the 800, 1500, 5000 videos are from last years outdoor national championship?

What, no love for Tully? He's back!

Sukeforth with the flat 4:14 to open the season to lead DIII. Also ran 1:55 and 8:2x at BU the weekend before.

Really nothing else notable so far.

Looks like most of the people who posted on these types of threads graduated.

Anyway. This weekend.

Tufts Cupid Challenge:

Amherst with a big DMR at Tufts 10:06

Veer with a 1:53.9, might be fast enough for nationals.

Conn Coll winning the mile,3k,and 5k

Trapp (frosh) with a 4:20

Bosworth had a good 3k

Dermody with 15:09

State of Maine:

Ellis seems to have had some setbacks with the 1:58.9 performance behind Desmond of USM.

Stansel wins mile 4:18

Hale had a good 4:19/8:43 double

Tully reappears to run 4:23.

Scarlett and White (BU)

MIT puts 4 in the 4:16-4:17 range not super notable but its decent depth.

Samuel of MIT runs 1:51.66

Cattanach of ECSU runs 4:17.1 / 1:56.1 double

other:

Sukeforth still the only sub 4:10 guy in DIII, albeit Wintheiser ran 4:09 but it didn't count.

Black no longer fastest in DIII after frosh from Ramp runs 1:50 at the Armory

Some great results from Valentine at BU yesterday:

Men's 800:

Black, Tufts 1:49

Bhalla, Tufts 1:52

Yannacone, Williams 1:53

(Ellis ran 1:54--good to see him back)

Men's Mile:

Schaaf, Midd 4:09

Stansel, Bates 4:10

Chelimo, Colby 4:14

(Hernandez from Ramapo 4:09)

Men's 3k:

Turissini, Amherst 8:16 (#3 NESCAC all-time)

Men's 5k:

Mazaheri, Williams 14:25

Hale, Colby 14:33

Inde, Williams 14:37

Not sure what's up with Chelimo. He hasn't run anything that fast this year yet. Where is Cotton? He was in the heat sheets for the 5k, yet didn't race. Black, Mazaheri, Turissini, and Schaaf seemingly clinched a plane ticket to NC, with Stansel, Hale, and Bhalla pretty close.

Predictions for next weekend?

5k: Mazaheri and Xie will be the main competitors, maybe Wood. Xie and Wood will be more fresh.

3k: Inde and Hale will battle it out, should be a good race. Its too bad Turissini is not in this.

Mile: Stansel and Schaaf, I'm gonna go with Schaaf because he is rested and peaking for indoor.

1000: Mitchell Black. Roy is good, but Black is better.

800: Parker should win, but he might choke because he is from MIT.

600: Goehring will win.