Karissa Schweizer??

She just had a lot of nerves and it just stressed her out I guess. Poor thing cried at the end of her interview too. Watch it on FloTrack

I believe her competitors humbled her. She was not as good as they said she was. Like she said, she had to hold on mentally

Last year was a weaker year by far, and in particular Kurgat threw a massive wrench into her tactical game. Neale ran a brilliant race and would have won in the absence of Kurgat, since Taylor would have still kept the pace honest. Ostrander and the USF women also benefitted from drafting a bit off of Kurgat.

Karissa is a talented athlete, should have some great races on the track, and I see her as an Infeld-type of talent if she goes to BTC.

She is still the cutest of all the runners you mentioned.❤️

Peloquin? Don’t think she raced at all this season?

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Dammit

She is a great athlete, and Saturday's race is a reminder of how tough the NCAA finals can be. It is a reminder of how much I looked forward to track season, where turning a 1500 meters consistently was a heck of a lot easier than coming through in a tough 10K XC race.

I recall the first college XC race I ever watched, the 1974 NCAA meet at Bloomington, Indiana. Before the race, lots of hype about the battle between Nick Rose and Craig Virgin. Rose ran away from the field (not unlike Kurgat), and Virgin had a tough day, finishing 12th. Of course, Craig won it the next year, and then went on to beat Rose in the World XC championship, arguably the toughest race of its day. No one on that day would have suggested that Virgin was anything but a great runner, and this athlete from Missouri deserves the same statement. You just work through the off days. Of course, this is Lets Run, so there will be any number of adolescent types making negative (or sexist )statements.

I'm only here to make sexy statements.

Is she related to Katherine Switzer?

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Is she related to Katherine Switzer?

No - but is daughter of the great coach, Barry Switzerland.

My sentiments exactly. Schweizer is definitely good and has a great future going forward.

As to this race this weekend, it was simply not a good day for her, as can happen to anyone.

Having an off day and touching it out to finish 11th seems pretty good me.

I was at the 4K (I think) and she seemed to pick it up a little at that point and passed one or two runners. I thought she was going to start hunting down runners, but stayed in pretty much the same place. The part of the course that goes behind the tennis courts and baseball fields is a bit of a no-man’s Land.

The moral of the story: the antidote for kickers like Karissa, Elle and Jones is an imported older Kenyan. Amy-Eloise was smart enough to lay off the early pace and cleaned up the debris.

Open source wrote:

The moral of the story: the antidote for kickers like Karissa, Elle and Jones is an imported older Kenyan. Amy-Eloise was smart enough to lay off the early pace and cleaned up the debris.

How much did she lay off the pace, do you happen to know splits?

No splits but she was into the 20's with 2K to go and tenth with 1200 to go:

http://www.flotrack.org/video/1267783-amyeloise-neale-was-shocked-by-her-kick-to-overtake-charlotte-taylor-for-second-place#.WhNMlEtrwzo

Consider this: in Schweizer’s 3 biggest races prior to nationals she lost to Purrier (18th at NCAAs) at prenats, beat runner-up Werner at SECs (104th at NCAAs), and beat runner-up Lokedi (44th at NCAAs) at regionals. Burns and Halter told her she was invincible and when she finally ran against tough competition, she folded.

Good strategy wrote:

Open source wrote:

The moral of the story: the antidote for kickers like Karissa, Elle and Jones is an imported older Kenyan. Amy-Eloise was smart enough to lay off the early pace and cleaned up the debris.

How much did she lay off the pace, do you happen to know splits?