BYU 1, NAU 0 based off of respective conference performances

Place Team Places Score

1. Northern Arizona University 1, 2, 3, 8, 10, (20), (48) 24

2. Southern Utah University 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, (12), (19) 36

3. Weber State University 6, 14, 17, 21, 24, (28), (34) 82

4. University of Idaho 18, 22, 23, 27, 33, (43), (44) 123

5. Montana State University 13, 25, 30, 38, 39, (65), (69) 145

6. Idaho State University 15, 26, 35, 41, 42, (45), (70) 159

7. University of Northern Colorado 31, 50, 51, 52, 54, (67), (73) 238

8. Sacramento State 32, 37, 49, 59, 62, (76), (77) 239

9. Eastern Washington University 36, 47, 53, 57, 58, (66), (74) 251

10. Montana 29, 46, 56, 60, 61, (71), (81) 252

11. Portland State University 16, 64, 68, 72, 78, (79), (80) 298

12. University of North Dakota 40, 55, 63, 75, 82, (83), (84) 315

Place Bib Name Year Team Time Score

1. 269 Tyler Day Jr 1. Northern Arizona University 23:21.0 1

2. 266 Matthew Baxter Jr 2. Northern Arizona University 23:22.0 2

3. 274 Andy Trouard Sr 3. Northern Arizona University 23:58.7 3

4. 324 Mike Tate Sr 1. Southern Utah University 24:08.0 4

5. 325 Matthew Wright Sr 2. Southern Utah University 24:08.7 5

6. 385 Jordan Cross Jr 1. Weber State University 24:23.2 6

7. 316 Josh Collins Jr 3. Southern Utah University 24:26.6 7

8. 271 Luis Grijalva Fr 4. Northern Arizona University 24:28.0 8

9. 318 Kasey Knevelbaard Jr 4. Southern Utah University 24:31.4 9

10. 270 Cory Glines Sr 5. Northern Arizona University 24:32.9 10

11. 317 George Espino Jr 5. Southern Utah University 24:38.2 11

Full results are below.

http://www.runnercard.com/results3/meet?meetId=a94ddab5-34fc-42ee-8115-3932d291f593

"WCC is undoubtedly a weaker conference this year outside of their top 2 teams. NAU faced more competition from teams like Weber."

Not so sure about that.

WCC has 3 top 30 men's teams.

#2, #3 and San Fransisco at #29.

I don't see Weber getting any top 30 votes. Other than that I agree with your post. That's a big spread 1-5. Compare that to BYU's.

BYU ran basically uncontested. They did not appear to go to the well, but they also did not have any real competition.

Didn’t watch NAU, but I Imagine it’s harder to run a conference meet like a workout when the race is contested at altitude. There’s nothing easy about near-maximal efforts in those conditions.

Northern Arizona athletes both live and train at 6,900 feet elevation. Research indicates that living in altitudes of 6,900 to 8,500 offer an optimal stimulus for red blood cell count increases (Rodríguez, FA; Truijens, MJ; Townsend, NE; Stray-Gundersen, J; et al. (2007). "Performance of runners and swimmers after four weeks of intermittent hypobaric hypoxic exposure plus sea level training". Journal of Applied Physiology. Am Physiological Soc. 103 (5): 1523–1535.). The plethora of professional athletes who make yearly treks to Mammoth Lakes, CA; Park City, UT; and Flagstaff, AZ can provide hard anecdotal evidence.

Descending to Ogden, UT offers NAU a 9.72% increase in available oxygen. When BYU travelled to San Leandro, CA, they experienced a 15.38% gain in available oxygen (credit to Kenneth Baillie, author of the International HAPE database for oxygen levels). Both teams live and train at an elevation far above where they raced. I don't think altitude was a "limiting factor" in either performance. Would NAU have ran faster if they had raced at sea level? Most likely. That does not mean their performance was hampered racing at 4,100 feet.

PortlandXCgirl wrote:

BYU perfect scored #3 Portland.

On the other hand, NAU scored 24 against #12 SUU.

BYU won easily. McMillan was out there 4 seconds ahead of the other 4 scorers who all finished within 2 seconds of one another.

NAU fought for their closer victory, getting fairly strung out with a 72 second spread between their first and fifth guy.

WCC is undoubtedly a weaker conference this year outside of their top 2 teams. NAU faced more competition from teams like Weber.

But it’s not debatable at this point- NAU didn’t look invincible today. BYU did.

Hey PortlandXC.........."girl".

Why didn't you include the female results???

It turns out that the NAU women also won the Big Sky Conference.

Unfortunately, the BYU women were DESTROYED by the women from...the University of SAN FRANCISCO.

San Francisco senior Charlotte Taylor stayed well ahead of the pack on Friday afternoon, crossing the finish line with a 20.3-second gap to capture the individual title and lead her Dons to the team title at the West Coast Conference Cross Country Championship at Metropolitan Golf Links in Oakland.

Taylor's time of 19:10.05 is also a new record for the fastest 6k time in a WCC championship race. The Dons, led by WCC Coach of the Year Helen Lehman-Winters, placed four runners in the top five and six overall in the top 10 with Danielle Shanahan (19:53.6) of Loyola Marymount finishing fourth.

Courtney Wayment (20:02.1) and Laura Young (20:03.6) of No. 18 BYU, as well as WCC Freshman of the Year Jasmijn Lau (20:07.0) from Portland rounded out the top 10. Marie Bouchard (20:01.1) of USF edged Wayment for a spot in the top five, finishing just a second ahead of the Cougar sophomore.

Taylor's time though was not the only conference mark for USF. San Francisco finished the race with 20 points, the lowest score for a women's side since Portland scored 20 in 1998 and the second lowest in WCC history.

The 31-point gap over the BYU Cougars (51 points) is the LARGEST difference between and USF champion and the second place finisher since the Dons beat out PORTLAND by 33 POINTS in 2010!!!!

I am sorry about that.

It is just a coincidence.

I am 100% confident that PortlandXCGirl did not mention the women's results because neither San Francisco, NAU, nor BYU women are favorites for the national title. But regardless, congratulations to San Francisco.

No need to completely alter the subject of the thread, though.

Were any Letsrun.com peeps at the Big Sky race? How did NAU actually look? Was Trouard just chilling behind his teammates?

Correction, buddy wrote:

I am 100% confident that PortlandXCGirl did not mention the women's results because neither San Francisco, NAU, nor BYU women are favorites for the national title. But regardless, congratulations to San Francisco.

No need to completely alter the subject of the thread, though.

That is too bad.

1. 277 Paige Gilchrist Sr 1. Northern Arizona University 17:12.1 1

2. 226 Jenica Dodge Sr 1. Idaho State University 17:23.0 2

3. 281 Mikayla Malaspina Jr 2. Northern Arizona University 17:32.1 3

4. 260 Kelsi Lasota Jr 1. Montana State University 17:32.7 4

5. 328 Maddy Kauffman So 1. Southern Utah University 17:37.4 5

6. 283 Miranda Myers Jr 3. Northern Arizona University 17:42.6 6

7. 348 Krista Story Jr 1. University of Idaho 17:44.2 7

8. 399 Candace Sharp Sr 1. Weber State University 17:44.5 8

9. 246 Emily Pittis Jr 1. Montana 17:45.4 9

10. 258 Caroline Hardin Jr 2. Montana State University 17:51.1 10

11. 347 Kara Story So 2. University of Idaho 17:51.8 11

12. 256 Patricia Carlson Fr 3. Montana State University 17:54.5 12

13. 214 Kaili Keefe So 1. Eastern Washington University 17:55.0 13

14. 227 Samantha Johnston Sr 2. Idaho State University 17:56.3 14

15. 326 Emma Amundsen So 2. Southern Utah University 17:57.2 15

16. 396 Summer Harper So 2. Weber State University 17:59.9 16

17. 343 Andrea Condie Jr 3. University of Idaho 18:03.2 17

18. 285 Emily Roughan Sr 4. Northern Arizona University 18:04.9 18

19. 296 Kaila Gibson 1. Portland State University 18:05.2 19

20. 342 Maizy Brewer So 4. University of Idaho 18:06.3 20

21. 333 Ashley Tyndall Sr 3. Southern Utah University 18:08.1 21

22. 240 Jessica Bailey Jr 2. Montana 18:08.9 22

23. 276 Pipi Eitel Fr 5. Northern Arizona University 18:09.6 23

24. 327 Madison Fruchey Fr 4. Southern Utah University 18:11.2 24

25. 259 Samantha Kelderman Fr 4. Montana State University 18:11.3 25

It turns out that there are only a few posts on this thread.

There will be very few actual people who will click on this thread...and post on this thread.

I am sorry about that.

It is just a coincidence.

Trouard ran with Day and Baxter and then hit the wall. Mind you, he died less than Tate who is very good. Grijalva and Glines ran more conservatively. Ran without Lomong and Beamish. The top 2 guys looked very good, but not as dominant as you might have thought.

The answer lies in Thies and Hauger who finished 8th and 9th at Wisco.

All 5 BYU guys were ahead of them at Conference (and the BYU guys were not pushing it). Only 3 NAU guys were ahead of Thies and Hauger at Wisco.

BYU's #4 and #5 guys will make the difference. BYU will win Nationals. Sorry NAU.

On the other hand, Mo Aziz was only 3 seconds behind Thies and Hauger. Aziz has an 14:42 PB and has not done anything special during the XC season. Does that mean that Thies and Hauger were also chilling? Therefore, the fact that 5 BYU guys were ahead of them may be meaningless.

I'm curious if Lomong and Beamish were sat out with similar approach Portland (possibly) took, just keeping fresh legs for later. Are either one hurt?

A bit surprising to be honest that SUU would put guys (sort of) close to NAU. I think they looked stronger today than at Wisco by a lot. Top ten at nationals coming?

Can't say I can tell for sure, but I was at WCC champs and Thies looked pretty gassed after the effort. If they shut it down, it wasn't very far out from the finish. Unless they are even BETTER than we all think, I don't think they could be chilling too hard at 23:30.

t-birds guy wrote:

A bit surprising to be honest that SUU would put guys (sort of) close to NAU. I think they looked stronger today than at Wisco by a lot. Top ten at nationals coming?

Josh Collins from SUU doesn't appear in the results for Nuttycombe, but fit into their scoring five today. Could be a big deal? idk.

Go Lumberjacks! wrote:

I'm curious if Lomong and Beamish were sat out with similar approach Portland (possibly) took, just keeping fresh legs for later. Are either one hurt?

Lomong was 17 seconds outside of top 5 at wisco, so not as big a deal. But if Beamish is hurt...smh.

Ess-You-You wrote:

t-birds guy wrote:

A bit surprising to be honest that SUU would put guys (sort of) close to NAU. I think they looked stronger today than at Wisco by a lot. Top ten at nationals coming?

Josh Collins from SUU doesn't appear in the results for Nuttycombe, but fit into their scoring five today. Could be a big deal? idk.

Josh Collins was an absolute beast in HS. Great to see him running well and contributing to his SUU team's success.

NAZ Eliteist wrote:

Go Lumberjacks! wrote:

I'm curious if Lomong and Beamish were sat out with similar approach Portland (possibly) took, just keeping fresh legs for later. Are either one hurt?

Lomong was 17 seconds outside of top 5 at wisco, so not as big a deal. But if Beamish is hurt...smh.

Team looks so deep this year, though. Maybe they are just rotating guys through to build up reserves.

If the Lumberjacks are looking for a new guy in their top 5, they'd better decide soon because the Cougars look ready!