The state of Colorado is dominating college XC

The schools that aren't ranked are Colorado Christian, Metro State, UC Colorado Springs, Colorado Mesa, and Ft. Lewis, correct?

Also the University of Northern Colorado is not ranked.

That's cause UNC is hot garbage with no desire to be good.

NikeSucks wrote:

The schools that aren't ranked are Colorado Christian, Metro State, UC Colorado Springs, Colorado Mesa, and Ft. Lewis, correct?

I think Ft.Lewis is in Kansas

Unranked should be

Colorado Christian

Metro state

UC CS - They are receiving votes however

Mesa

UNC

Johnson and Wales (NAIA school)

My question for people here (I live outside the US) concerning Colorado. Is it the altitude that gives them the advantage or do the Colorado Universities attract the most talented high school runners who think they must move to altitude in order to take on the Kenyans and Ethiopians at a later date?

Actually we get maybe the best recruits in our state. Often lose our top runners to out of state. Rarely get anyone great runners out of state. But I know atleast Adam state has their cities xc team basically training under them. Early this year, alamosa the high school ran at 7500 ft and had a top5 average of 16:16 for a school with 500 kids they are really good. If they were a big school like the nationally ranked teams they could probably win NXN

Update: Adam's State is currently, and foreally the foreseeable future, only DII.

Questrun wrote:

NikeSucks wrote:

The schools that aren't ranked are Colorado Christian, Metro State, UC Colorado Springs, Colorado Mesa, and Ft. Lewis, correct?

I think Ft.Lewis is in Kansas

Unranked should be

Colorado Christian

Metro state

UC CS - They are receiving votes however

Mesa

UNC

Johnson and Wales (NAIA school)

Ft Lewis is in DURANGO, CO!!

Ummmmm... wrote:

Questrun wrote:

I think Ft.Lewis is in Kansas

Unranked should be

Colorado Christian

Metro state

UC CS - They are receiving votes however

Mesa

UNC

Johnson and Wales (NAIA school)

Ft Lewis is in DURANGO, CO!!

My bad. So 7 of 13 are ranked which brings it to 53.8%. Still good.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

My question for people here (I live outside the US) concerning Colorado. Is it the altitude that gives them the advantage or do the Colorado Universities attract the most talented high school runners who think they must move to altitude in order to take on the Kenyans and Ethiopians at a later date?

I am a Kenyan who recently moved to Colorado to train at altitude. There's no better place in the world to train than Colorado. Several teammates are also Kenyan.

Go Pokes wrote:

Update: Adam's State is currently, and foreally the foreseeable future, only DII.

Yes I agree foreally. D2 ever only, and currently, as long as foreseeable ability will be Adams state.

Distance running may be favored in Colorado, but the altitude training will turn mediocre prospects into good runners and very good prospects into great ones.

It's probably also no coincidence that New Mexico schools do quite well too. University of New Mexico won NCAA XC Nationals last year. Albuquerque has comparable elevation to Boulder.