– NAU senior Brian Shrader, talking about his goals for the upcoming track season after his recent breakthrough race, winning the .US 12K Championships.
LRCNAU’s Brian Shrader Talks About Surprise Win At The .US 12K Championships, Living His Whole Life At Altitude And Possibly Having To Turn Down $20,000 In Prize Money We catch up with the NAU senior who’s raised himself to a completely different level this fall, going from a collegian who hasn’t made an NCAA outdoor meet to a US champion and American record holder.
Men’s Results: Steepler Chris Winter got the win as his fiancee Rachel Cliff was second on the women’s side (Rachel Hannah the winner) as they attempted to sweep the titles.
Pre-Race:Engaged Runners Chris Winter And Rachel Cliff Hoping To Win Canadian XC Titles
IAAF Recap First 4 Days Of Central American And Caribbean Games In Mexico Mexico’s distance athletes cleaned house as Brenda Flores and Juan Luis Barrios both took the 10,000/5,ooo double. *Full Meet Results
*Jamaica Only Has One Medal At CAC Games Raymond Brown got bronze in the shot put.
New Roof Taking Shape On London Olympic Stadium Work is supposed to be completed ahead of the five Rugby World Cup 2015 matches it’s supposed to host next year.
LRCThe LetsRun Nation Has Spoken – Vote Tallies From 2014 NCAA XC Prediction Contest The biggest surprise is that Kate Avery has the most first place votes but is only third overall as “American bias” has come through big time.
LRCThe Coaches Praise Colorado, Futsum Prays For Rain And Chris Fox Explains Syracuse’s Rise: Six Takeaways From The Men’s Press Conference With the race mere hours away, we pass on what we learned this afternoon, where it was a total love-fest for Chris Lear and Mark Wetmore.
LRCMichigan State Not Feeling The Pressure, Emma Bates Is Happy With Her Season, Pre-Race Parties Are Good And Bad: 10 Takeaways From The Women’s Press Conference 4 leading ladies and coaches shared their wisdom.
*RRW:Michigan State Women Hope To Cap Dream Season With NCAA Cross-Country Title #1
LRCFive Things We Learned In Terre Haute On Thursday – The Course Is Fast, Some Coaches Have No Fun, McFarland USA Is A Winner, And Syracuse Is Here We are on the ground and give you the inside scoop, including a mini review of Disney’s new XC movie, McFarland USA.
*Jim Ryun Talks To NCAA Runners Before They Become 1st In Nation To See Kevin Costner’s New XC Movie, McFarland USAIt was a great night in Terre Haute as coach Jim White was in attendance. Futsum Zeinasellassie loved it: “This is beautiful. It’s amazing.”
David Torrence Gets Sponsored By Hoka One One
That’s One Way To Burn Off Your Thanksgiving Dinner:Florida High School Coach Walking 250 Miles To Raise Money For Track Improvements He expects to raise more than $100,000.
For your holiday reading pleasure, we've got a Thanksgiving Week That Was. We tell you how damn hot Doha will be for Worlds, give praise to Max King, talk about Kiprop running 3:24, discuss Nigel Amos's "coach," and break down the NCAA XC regions.
Are you an old timer who wants colleges to only recruit Americans and not accept transfers? That's usually a losing proposition. We look at how the NCAA championships teams are built.
LRC Who Over/Underachieved At The 2014 NCAA XC Championships?
RRWColorado Men, Edward Cheserek RepeatRecap and results. After a slow opening 8k, Edward Cheserek crushed the field the final 2km. He was followed by his teammate Eric Jenkins but they were no match for Mark Wetmore‘s Colorado Buffaloes.
LRC8 Thoughts On Men’s Race, Including How Great Is This CU Team? We break down Colorado’s repeat and compare them to the 2001 CU, 2003 Stanford and 2005 Wisconsin, NCAA all-time great championship teams. We look at the Oregon 1-2 punch, Stanford’s improvement, and how tough it is for true frosh.
Photos:Men’s Race *Women’s Race *All-Americans
Miss The Race?: Full Video Replay Of Men’s Race
LRC Men’s Video Interviews:Mark Wetmore & Jorge Torres, Edward Cheserek & Eric Jenkins, Maksim Korolev & Joe Rosa, Portland’s Rob Conner, NAU’s Futsum Zienasellassie, Indiana State’s John Mascari
LIVE COVERAGE OF NCAA XC ChampsRelive the NCAA Champs.
*Live Thread
Molly Huddle got another big win to bring her prize money total to $128,000 in 2014, collegian Brian Shrader (born at 7,000 feet of altitude) turned heads by beating the pros at the .US 12k Champs, Priscah Jeptoo showed she's on her way back, and Duke did not show anything.
IAAF Announces New World Championship Qualification Process For Worlds 2015 There no longer is a “B” standard. In all events but the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon, there will be a descending order list so you can go without the “A” qualifying time.
*MB: Big Win For “The Mile’ – Mile times can now be used to qualify for Worlds!! The times are 3:53.3 and 4:25.2.
*Daily Relay Breaks Down What No B Standard Means
Doha Wins 15-12 Over Eugene For Worlds 2019 If two people had voted differently, the Worlds would be coming to the US. *Discuss
Foot Locker Regionals:Dominant Victories In All 3 Regions, Including Wins By Past Champs Fisher, Rohrer The closest race in all 6 races on Saturday was defending champ Grant Fisher‘s 9-second win in the Midwest. Anna Rohrer, the 2012 champ, who has battled injuries the last 2 years, won the Midwest in impressive fashion. Top 10 in all the regions here. Olin Hacker, son of former NCAA and USATF XC champ Tim Hacker, also qualified.
*List Of Foot Locker Qualifiers
*Full List Of NXN Qualifying Teams
More Coverage Here
On The Boards:Grant Fisher 4:59 2nd Mile, Anna Rohrer 5:13 2nd Mile
*Are the Hackers The First Foot Locker Father-Son Qualifiers?
*FLN and NXN predictions: YOUR TOP 3 – time to put up watchoutxcrankings
Nice Read:Profile On 2012 Foot Locker Champ Anna Rohrer, Who Has Battled 2 Years Of Injuries To Get Back On Top
Good News:Asbel Kiprop Calls For Jail Time For Dopers “Those found guilty should serve a long jail term in addition to the ban,” said Kiprop.
Bad News: The same article above reveals a Kenyan high school got a rubberized tartan track. Once the Kenyans get soft like the rest of the world, forget about dominating.
Alex Hutchinson In The NY Times: When Taking Drugs Isn’t Cheating
British Journalist Writes About Running One Of The World’s Greatest Road Races – The Great Ethiopian Run 37,000 runners run this thing and Haile Gebrselassie said they could have 200,000 there is so much demand. Haile G had to buy a Great Run T-shirt off the street.
WADA Pledges To “Work Closely” With National Anti-Doping Organizations On Implementation Of New Anti-Doping Code This was in after the Netherlands saying they’d have to cut the number of tests to afford the new advanced ones. WADA responded that the smarter testing meant they needed less testing.
Boston Marathon Bomber’s Lawyers Denied Access To Prosecutor Info Ahead Of Trial Which Starts In January Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty and his defense is trying to argue that he was coerced by his older brother, who was killed after the Boston bombing.
RRW Kate Avery, Michigan State Run Away With NCAA Titles There was no doubt about it. Michigan State was the best team and Kate Avery of Iona the best runner at the 2014 NCAAs. Recap with results.
LRC 8 Thoughts On The Women’s NCAA XC Championships: Michigan State And Walt Drenth Get It DoneWe give Walt Drenth, Michigan State and Kate Avery the praise they deserve, plus talk Sarah Disanza, Emma Bates, Providence, and freshmen.
Photos:Men’s Race *Women’s Race *All-Americans
Miss The Race?:Full Video Replay Of Women’s Race
LRC Women’s Video:MSU’s Walt Drenth, Leah O’Connor And Team Celebration, Iowa State Coach Andrea Grove-McDonough, ASU’s Shelby Houlihan
NCAA Women On The Boards: How did Michigan State beat the women’s race and beat teams like Georgetown, Oregon, Colorado, Stanford, etc.?!?! link fixed
*Kate Avery: NCAA Champ And Sally’s Record
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