PAC 12 - #4 Oregon women destroy #1 Colorado and #6 Stanford - #4 Stanford men handle #7 UW, #8 Colorado and #11 Oregon

Looks like Katie Rainsberger made a good choice to xfer.

Went from potential #5 Duck to #1 Husky runner.

Did Lilli Burdon come back from an injury ? Wow, Powell got crushed by her old team . Takes a year maybe

Team scores?

Hot take?

Men’s results?

America loses to the United Nations (it's like the USA vs the world events at Penn Relays). Hopefully Hurta can run better at Nationals to make a game of it for CU. Be interesting to see what happens in Madison in three weeks.

so much for the Ducks having an off year due to transfers ---Rainsberger would have been their 5th by one spot if she stayed-LOL...

ALL Oregon?

Solid performance, to be sure, but I thought you were saying they swept the scoring spots. Or at least close - like when Wisconsin men went 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 at the Big 10 meet in 2005. I still remember the picture from the podium in that race, all the Wisco guys looking like they were on top of the world, with one of the Jefferson brothers for Indiana, looking forlorn in the middle (not sure why, since he was the only guy to break up the sweep!)

Foreign athletes don't bother me but interesting Oregon seems to get a pass while other programs are called out. Here are the countries of their top 7 women today:

Australia

Poland

Kenya

Spain

Sweden

UK

California

I watched both the men's and Women's races the Oregon women looked really good ;) the men not so much (. But when the Oregon Women get Brauer and Bowden going who I thought would be their 2 and 3rd runners this year going watch out. GO DUCKS

One has to wonder if Rainsberger transferred by choice or if the new coach pulled the scholarship to pave the way for the runners she brought with her. Australia, Poland, Kenya, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and a token American in 7th. Should they pull the US Olympic Trials from Oregon since they no longer feel it is not a priority to develop US Olympic athletes?

OREGON IS JACKED wrote:

Under 30 points!!

That's over 30 points, but I know academics aren't a focal point at Oregon.

Full Team and Top Individual Results appear below.

Women 6k Team Results (6k ) Top↑

PL Team Total Time Avg. Time Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1 Oregon 1:38:50 19:46 32 2 4 6 8 12 17 18

2 Colorado 1:39:40 19:56 48 1 7 9 15 16 22 24

3 Stanford 1:41:05 20:13 81 3 5 20 26 27 29 57

4 Washington 1:43:17 20:39 123 11 23 28 30 31 38 55

5 UCLA 1:44:18 20:51 158 13 25 34 40 46 53 56

6 Oregon State 1:44:42 20:56 173 14 32 33 36 58 62 64

7 Utah 1:45:30 21:06 191 21 35 41 45 49 52 54

8 Washington St. 1:47:08 21:25 249 37 43 50 59 60 69 71

9 Arizona State 1:47:16 21:27 250 39 47 48 51 65 75 76

10 Arizona 1:48:14 21:38 251 10 19 70 74 78 80 82

11 California 1:48:01 21:36 277 42 44 61 63 67 68 72

12 USC 1:54:43 22:56 376 66 73 77 79 81 83 84

Women 6k Individual Results (6k )

1. Dani JONES Colorado 19:24.5 SR 1

2 Jessica HULL Oregon 19:25.1 SR 2

3 Elise CRANNY Stanford 19:29.6 SR 3

4 Weronika PYZIK Oregon 19:35.7 SR 4

5 Fiona O'KEEFFE Stanford 19:43.2 JR 5

6 Susan EJORE Oregon 19:48.4 SR 6

7 Makena MORLEY Colorado 19:52.1 SR 7

8 Carmela BAEZ Oregon 19:52.6 SR 8

9 Tabor SCHOLL Colorado 19:56.5 JR 9

10 Addi ZERRENNER Arizona 19:59.0 SR 10

TLDR Results wrote:

Team scores?

Hot take?

Men’s results?

I put leading results up in the first post.

My quick take is "the program is bigger than the coach." The Oregon women were Very Good.

On the men's side, unless STanford was holding someone out (where is Ratcliffe?), how can we expect them to challenge BYU or NAU at NCAAs?

Full results here:

Transferring because of coaching change is not always the best idea . Look how both her and Lilli Burdon ran . Like crap . Stop and think before you go nuts will false hopes and dreams . Now , if money was an issue that is legit .

Dr No wrote:

Transferring because of coaching change is not always the best idea . Look how both her and Lilli Burdon ran . Like crap . Stop and think before you go nuts will false hopes and dreams . Now , if money was an issue that is legit .

Maybe they realized that they would be better off graduating from Washington because they can count to 30. Sounds like a good idea to me.

What happen to the ASU men? Didn’t they have a bunch of transfers?

lagsun wrote:

Foreign athletes don't bother me but interesting Oregon seems to get a pass while other programs are called out. Here are the countries of their top 7 women today:

Australia

Poland

Kenya

Spain

Sweden

UK

California

Most of the times when programs are relying heavily on foreigners, they throw out the excuse it is because US athletes don't want to run there (UTEP, UNM, Alabama, Arkansas, etc.) or as she argued at NCAA's last year that San Francisco was a real multi-national location and the composition of the athletes was merely a reflection of the existing culture. What is the excuse in Oregon? US athletes typically want to run there, and it's not like Oregon is this melting pot of cultures. What I'd like to see is honesty if she is interviewed at Nationals: "Yeah, the American athletes were too entitled so we told them to go someplace else and we decided it was in the best interest of the program to develop Olympic athletes for other countries."

On the men’s side based on number 5 runner finish

Washington- 20

Stanford- 23

Oregon- 30

Colorado-41

This could be the upset maker at natty’s. Those high popsicle sticks hurt in the deep races.

Oregon men, ugh!

ASU got a new coach, who is faced with basically starting from scratch, so not much was expected from them. It appears he's hitting on some good recruits, so we'll see how the Devils improve over the next 2-3 years.

Right now, though, if you took all of the colleges in Arizona and had a XC meet, ASU would be fifth behind NAU, Arizona, Grand Canyon and Central Arizona.