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Syracuse And New Mexico!

2015 NCAAs Were Saturday Live Results (All Divisions – DI, DII And DIII) Schedules & Streaming (DI, DII And DIII) LRC Banquet Photos LRC$200,015 LRC Running Warehouse Prediction Contest *Complete NCAA Coverage

LRCSyracuse “Out-Coloradoes” Colorado For NCAA Cross Crown As Edward Cheserek Makes History Look Easy (Updated and final) Colorado and Syracuse were tied at 8k but “Syracuse out-Coloradoed Colorado over the last 2k” to get the crown. King Cheserek crushed Patrick Tiernan the final 2k. Full recap with interviews of Chris Fox, Mark Wetmore, Justin Knight, Grant Fisher, Patrick Tiernan and more.

Men’s Race Talk On The Boards: Congrats to Chris Fox and Syracuse!!!!
WHO IS PHILO GERMANO??????? He picked up 10 spots the final 2k for the win.
“Syracuse out-Colorado’ed Colorado over the last 2k”
Syracuse XC HS pr’s
I wonder how MJ Erb feels right now After running as Syracuse’s #1 man in 2014 (37th), he transferred to Ole Miss and finished 187th.
Who Are Your Biggest Positive Surprise at NCAAs?
Canadian distance runners are the best recruits!

LRCFan Nation NCAA Picks From The Running Warehouse $200,015 Prediction Contest

Banquet Photos (Click For Gallery)

More NCAA News

RRW:Villanova Men Still Motivated As Team At NCAA XC ChampionshipsPatrick Tiernan, Rob Denault and Jordy Williamsz say it will be different to be at NCAAs as individuals after the team unexpectedly didn’t make it.
*MB:Villanova – 3 individual qualifiers but no team at NCAAs
Register-Guard:Waverly Neer Finds A Home With Oregon Cross-Country After Leaving Columbia And NYC Neer: “I had a lot of people tell me I was crazy, leaving one year away from getting an Ivy League degree. Academics are important to me … but they’re what you make of it. You can challenge yourself.”
DailyLobo.com: New Mexico Women Are “Apex Predators In Hunt For National Title” The big favorites said they treated Regionals “kind of like a warm up”.
Daily Bruin:Senior Lane Werley Shapes The Future Of UCLA Running
Daily Emerald:Edward Cheserek’s Historic Career Grounded By His Love For His Teammates And Eugene
The Stanford Daily:Stanford XC Teams Fought Through Season Of Injuries En Route To NCAAsChris Miltenberg: “This season is already a huge success. Nobody outside of our family would understand what we mean by that.”
Hook’Em.com: Texas’ Men And Women’s XC Teams Going To Nationals Together For First Time Since 2012 After finishing a dismal 40th at Pre-Nats, the women Longhorns were a surprise 2nd at Regionals.

Who’s The Best?

Estonian Heptathlete Grit Sadeiko Joins Eatons’ Training Group Brianne Theisen-Eaton says she wanted a training partner besides Ashton because it’s often disheartening when he catches onto things so much more easily than she does.

Body Of Missing Belarus Olympic Sprinter Yulia Balykina Found In Forest Her ex-boyfriend has already confessed to the murder. Balykina competed in the 100 and 4 x 100 at the 2012 Olympics, but was banned for doping in 2013.

NBCUniversal Acquires Rights From Defunct Universal Sports Network

Latest From The Russian Doping Scandal

Shameful:Despite Ban, Russian Marathoner Competes And Wins At Kanazawa Marathon In JapanVictor Ugarov was one of two Russians who competed as he won the race in 2:17:19. One of them even wore a Russian national uniform.
IAAF Release: IAAF Names Inspection Team To Assess The Russian Athletics Federation The five-member team is lead by Norwegian international anti-doping expert Rune Andersen.
Russian Stars Write Letter To IAAF And Seb Coe Asking To “Not Kill Their Dream” By Banning Them From The OlympicsYelena Isinbayeva, World 110H champ Serguei Shubenkov and Olympic HJ champ Anna Chicherova lead a press conference.
Yelena Isinbayeva Says She Might Stand For President Of The Russian Athletics Federation After Rio 2016 A new president will be chosen for a 6-month position and then elections will take place after Rio.
Washington Post:Molly Huddle Calls For Lifetime Bans For Dopers Huddle: “I think everyone agrees with that, and I’m not sure what the holdup is there.”
Swim Coaches Call For Rio Boycott If Russia Returns From Ban
Jessica Ennis-Hill Feels Sport Is “Definitely In A Dark Place” After Russian Doping Scandal Her coach Toni Minichiello isn’t for the Russian Olympic ban, despite the fact a Russian doper cost Ennis gold at 2011 Worlds.

Book Review – The Animal Keepers Is Certainly A Keeper

LRC Book Review"The Animal Keepers" By Donn Behnke - A Terrific Tale Of What It Means To Be A Team

We highly recommend this book - hell, we call it "a triumph" - by Chris Solinsky's high school coach, Donn Behnke. Purchase here. 5 out 5 stars.

NCAA Women

Molly Seidel

LRC Molly Seidel Breaks The Foot Locker Curse And New Mexico Makes History (Updated and final) The Foot Locker curse is over and the New Mexico women proved themselves to be the greatest women’s team in history as they had the lowest point total in the modern era. Interviews with Seidel, Dominque Scott, Joe Franklin, Anna Rohrer and the Lobos.

Message Board Talk:

OTB: Molly Seidel Breaks The FOOTLOCKER CURSE
OTB: new mexico cross country women
OTB: Great Job on the Aisling Cuffe Interview
OTB: Would the NCAA Cross-Country champs be more popular if everyone ran nude? –

More NCAA Coverage

DII: #4 Ranked Colorado Mines Men Get Upset Win; Adams State Women Beat Three Time Defending Champs And Top Ranked Grand Valley StateAlfred Chelanga got a 9-second win in the men’s race as Alexis Zeis just beat out defending champ Kendra Foley by .3-seconds. *Results
DIII: Top Ranked UW-Eau Claire Men Win By 9-Points; Williams Women Get Surprise Dominant Win Individually Ian LaMere won by 40-seconds, the largest margin in meet history asAbrah Masterson won a close women’s race. *Results
Cuse.com: Not Since 1951 Have Syarcuse Men Been On Top Of The XC Podium Chris Fox: “They ran like men. They took control at the beginning and never let it go.”
Good Quotes From The BuffaloesMark Wetmore: “They did everything we asked them to. Maybe when I got back tomorrow and process it, I’ll decide I should have asked them to do something else. But they did their jobs.”
Lobo Women Win University Of New Mexico’s Second NCAA Title Ever, In Any Sport They join the 2004 New Mexico ski team as the school’s only other NCAA champions.
RRW NCAA Recap:Surprising Syracuse Wins Historic NCAA Cross Country Title
Ireland’s Ciaran O’Lionaird Explains To The Rest Of The World Why NCAAs Is Such A Big Deal Says his surprise 2nd place team finish with FSU in 2010 is still his “best day in athletics”.
GoDucksG.com: Edward Chesere Joins Steve Prefontaine And Henry Rono As Only Three Time XC Champions Cheserek is the first three-time consecutive winner.
Molly Seidel: “It’s an incredible accumulation of four years, with the struggles I’ve been though, to be able to come out and win my last one is really special.”

A Legend Passes And We Barely Knew Anything About Him

Frank Litsky Of NY Times Remembers Mal Whitfield: One Of America’s Greatest 800m Runners – 2 Time Olympic Champ AND A Tuskegee Airman Whitfield’s life (2 Olympic golds 1948 and 1952 while serving in the military, being a Tuskegee Airman in a segregated military, and spreading track and field throughout the globe) was pretty amazing. Plus, after he retired from track, he advised a ton of athletes, including Kip Keino of Kenya and Mamo Wolde. He died this week at 91. *LA Times Obit
On The Boards: Mal Whitfield – USA 800m Legend – RIP

Interesting Distance News

Well Done, LRC Sleuths:Serial Cheater At Marine Corps Marathon Gets A Lifetime Ban Thanks To LetsRun Message Board PostersGregory Price, who finished 2nd in the 60-64 age-group with 3:17:47, has apparently cheated at the Marine Corps Marathon 13 times since 1998.
*MB:Serial Cheater at Marine Corps Marathon
*MB:Good job Letsrun! You helped take down a cheater!
Every College Kid’s Dream: Recent Beer Mile WR Setter Lewis Kent Lands Sponsorship Deal With Brooks Kent: “It’s pretty surreal. I’ve always liked to run and drink beer, but I never thought I would be considered world class for doing both.”
*Video:Canadian Lewis Kent Runs New Beer Mile WR Of 4:51.9
2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials Course Unveiled
*Meb Says The Course Is Flat And Fast He thinks it will be faster than the 2012 Houston course.
RIP:US’s Two Time-Olympic 800 Champ Mal Whitfield Dies At The Age Of 91 Whitfield became the first US serviceman to win an Olympic gold medal while on active duty as he won the 800, anchored the USA 4 x 400m team to gold and took 400m bronze in 1948. *USATF Article

Lawi Lalang Is Training In Kenya, Focused On Making The Squad For Portland World Indoors Lalang is training with long distance road studs like Eliud Kipchoge, Geoffrey Kamworor and Emmanuel Mutai, but is still focused on the 1,500 to 5,000.

MSNBC Video Interview With Flo Groberg After Receiving His Medal Of Honor
*LRC Flo Groberg Gets The Medal Of Honor And President Obama Talks Running

Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack (Britton) Will Race For The First Time Under Her New Married Name At Next Month’s Euro XC Champs She’ll try to regain the title she won in 2011 and 2012 after finishing 6th last year.

New York Road Runners To Vacate Fabled Headquarters They’ve been on the Upper East Side of Manhattan since NYC Marathon founder Fred Lebow purchased the building in 1981.

Distance News: Three Months Until The Marathon Trials

Meb Keflezighi Says Experience Will Be Key As He Tries To Become The Oldest Olympic Marathoner Ever “There’s a move to make the team and a move for the win. You have to have experience to make those decisions.”
Video:Canadian Lewis Kent Runs New Beer Mile WR Of 4:51.9
*From August:Lewis Kent Wins Beer Mile World Classic In 5:07 Over Former WR Holders James Neilsen And Josh Harris US’s Caitlin Batten won the women’s race in 6:48. *Race Site/Video
Olympic Trials Qualifier Nicole Michmerhuizen Doesn’t Let Diabetes Slow Her Down Michmerhuizen, who was diagnosed with diabetes in the 8th grade, won the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon in 2:41:38.
Liz Costello Blogs About The “Robotic Lifestyle” Of A Pro Runner “Sleep. Eat. Run. Repeat. For months, I was completely predictable.”
Video:Carrie Tollefson Interviews Wilson Kipsang Of all his wins, Kipsang says his favorite is when he set his 2:03:23 WR in Berlin.
Jip Vastenburg Just Missed Becoming The First Dutchwoman In 25 Years To Win The Zevenheuvelenloop 15K She lost to Ethiopia’s Yenenesh Tilahun by less than a second as they both clocked 50:05.

Previous NCAA News

Colorado on top of the podium has become a familiar sight

Good Read:As Colorado Prepares To Go For A Third Consecutive National Title, Mark Wetmore Explains The Decision To Race Ben Saarel After getting sick early in the season, Saarel hadn’t raced in a Colorado uniform all year until Regionals and Wetmore thought about redshirting him.
RRW:Motivated By Devastating Fall, Dartmouth’s Dana Giordano Ready For NCAA XC Champs The Northeast Regional champ has had a sticky note on her computer for the last year as motivation.
Temple’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Champ Blanca Fernandez Is The First Woman In School History To Qualify For NCAAs She was the only one on her team to finish in the top 140.
Colorado Tops Men’s Pre-NCAA DI Championships National Coaches’ Poll Syracuse is ranked 2nd and Stanford 3rd.
New Mexico No Longer Unanimous #1 In Women’s National Poll After Colorado beat them at the Mountain Regional by one point, they got two votes, although New Mexico held out a couple of runners in that race.

Jumps And Throws

IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With World And Olympic TJ Champ Christian Taylor Taylor says his greatest rival is Will Claye, that he regrets not finishing his college degree and that he struggles to get enough sleep, often only sleeping 5 to 6 hours a night.
RIP: Oldest Surviving Olympian Dies At The Age Of 103 China’s Guo Jie competed in the discus at the 1936 Olympics.
AW Athlete Insight:UK High Jumper Allan Smith After jumping 2.29m to win the British indoor title this year, Smith knows he needs to go higher to move up in the overall world ranks.

Kenya’s Eliud Ngetich (23:15) And Former NCAA Champ Marielle Hall (26:03) Win Rothman Institute 8K As Part Of Philadelphia Marathon Weekend

Today’s Doping Updates

Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Brushes Off Russia’s Ban From World Indoors “What do we need these championships for? Okay, we don’t go there. … Even if we skip it there will be no tragedy.”
USADA Head Travis Tygart Explains Why Russians Shouldn’t Be Allowed At Rio 2016 “It’s basically anarchy over there. And as the report indicated, it’s been like that for years. Athletes are going to have the benefit of these drugs.”
IAAF’s Releases It’s Latest “Frequently Asked Questions”The Sunday Times grilled them about the decision to give Eugene the 2021 World Champs without a formal bidding process and the IAAF defends its decision.
Three Russian Athletes Found Breaking Suspension By Racing Abroad They were not named, but one of them is definitely DQd marathoner Viktor Ugarov who won the Kanazawa Marathon last weekend.
Will Russian Track Be Next?Bulgaria Weightlifting Banned From The Olympics Due To Widespread Doping

Doping: There Will Be No Russia In Portland; Marta Dominguez Finally Banned

IOC President Proposes Overhaul Of WADA To Let Court Of Arbitration Of Sport Handle Sanctions Sounds like a good idea.
Two Russians Kristina Ugarova And Tatyana Myazina Say They Didn’t Dope Despite Being Named In WADA Report Ugarova is a 2:00/4:00 runner and Myazina has run 2:03.
Russia Will Miss 2016 Portland World Indoor Champs As IAAF Inspection Won’t Be Done In TimeThe IAAF inspection team won’t report back to the IAAF until late March at the earliest.
Notorious Spanish Drug Cheat Marta Dominguez Stripped Of Her 2009 World Steeple Title; Banned For 3 Years Dominguez was caught by the biological passport in 2013, but the Spanish athletics federation (of which she was the vice-president) cleared her in 2014. CAS has now reversed that decision with all her results since 2009 annulled.
*MB:Jenny Simpson – 2009 WC steeplechase medalist
Science Of The Sport Q&A With Jamaican Anti-Doping Whistleblower Renee Anne Shirley On The Recent Drug Scandals“The problem I have found is that whistleblowers like me are not welcomed/wanted in the system. It has been tough to continue to speak out.”
Rita Jeptoo’s Coach, Claudio Berardelli, Is Still Trying To Convince Her To Come Clean With Who Supplied Her With EPO
Disturbing:Paralympics Want To Crack Down On Wheelchair Athletes Who Do “Scrotum-Squeezing” Apparently they sit on their scrotums or clamp off catheters to fill their bladders to get a boost in adrenaline and performance.

Athletes Of The Year

World Champions Ashton Eaton And Allyson Felix Named USATF Athletes Of The Year
A Look At The Three IAAF Men’s AOY Finalists’ Top Performances In 2015 Includes video of Usain Bolt, Ashton Eaton and Christian Taylor.
*Top 2015 Performances For Women’s AOY Candidates Genzebe Dibaba, Dafne Schippers And Anita Wlodarczyk
Bosnia’s Breakthrough 800 Runner Amel Tuka And Serbian LJer Ivana Spanovic Named Balkan AOY

NXN Is In Two Weeks

Northville Team Barred From Going To NXN Nationals By Michigan High School Athletics Association Following Outdated Rules Parents and other supporters are putting a lot of pressure on MHSAA to change its mind. They are the first Michigan team to ever qualify.
*DyeStat Article*Milesplit*Tweets From Dathan Ritzenhein And Hansons-Brooks
NXN Regional Races Shake Up Rankings But Fayetteville-Manlius Girls Remains On Top
Hopkins Boys Take Top Spot As NXN Field Fills Out

More Doping Updates

Recommended Read:The Telegraph‘s Paul Hayward Explains Why Russia Has Essentially Been “Let Off The Hook By A Dirty Backroom Deal”“‘Compliance’ is a vital word here, because it suggests a willingness not to commit future transgressions. Those already on the charge sheet will be washed away by future obedience. Thus have the Kremlin, the IAAF and IOC conspired to turn the normal rules of crime and punishment on their head. … curious way to administer justice. It amounts to hugging the perpetrator, wiping the slab clean of a state doping programme and fooling the public that future ‘compliance’ eliminates current non-compliance.”
Good News: Russian Marathoner Who Competed And Won A Marathon In Japan Will Be DQedViktor Ugarov will receive no prize money and the IAAF is writing to the Russian Federation seeking disciplinary proceedings against him.
*Ugarov Could Get 4-Year Ban
Doping Doesn’t Just Hurt The Sport, It Crushes The Dreams Of Clean Athletes Quotes from several athletes who were hurt by doping, including Sonia O’Sullivan, three-time Olympian Jonathan Brown and Canada’s Malindi Elmore.
AP Exclusive:“A Soviet Sprinter Who Said No To Steroids” In 1967, teenage sprinter Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili wanted to take steroids, but his mother was “horrified” and wouldn’t let him. Russia needs more parents like her.
IAAF Confirms It Has Been Investigating Allegations On Kenyan Doping Cover-Up And Corruption Since March
Anti-Doping Expert Rune Andersen: There’s No Way To Put A Timeline On How Long Russian Investigation Might Take Andersen is the head of the IAAF inspection committee which will be in charge of reinstating Russia.
Russian Officials Set Goal Of Being Unbanned By February 14th That is the day of their annual Russian Winter indoor meet.
Athletics Illustrated:“Has The IAAF Completely Failed The Sport Of Athletics?”Chris Kelsall takes a long look at the last three IAAF presidents and the questionable ethics surrounding the whole organization.
Russian Paralympic Silver Medalist Sprinter Alexander Zverev Banned For Failed Drug Test He tested positive for Cannabinoids, which is banned in competition.
Institute Of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) Says Russia Should Be Banned From Rio 2016
Olivier Niggli Will Replace David Howman As Next Director General Of WADA Howman is stepping down next June.

Kenyan Doping / Scandal Updates

Dick Pound Says That It Is “Pretty Clear That There Is A Lot Of PEDs Being Used In Kenya” He said it should worry every athlete competing in distance events.
AK Denies Doping Cover-Up; Claims Whistleblower Is A Rogue Coach A lot of crazy accusations on both sides. AK also issued an apology to Wilson Kipsang for publishing that he missed an out-of-competition test last year.
Mystery Over Eight Unidentified Adverse Analytical Findings From September’s All-Africa Games The anti-doping program at the Games was a mess with workers even staging a strike. The positive tests include three track athletes.
The Guardian:“Clouds Gather As Kenya Fears Sunshine Days Are Over For Its Athletics”
Kip Keino Wants Lifetime Bans For All Kenyan Drug Cheats
AK Vice President David Okeyo Denies Embezzlement Charges

LetsRun.com Investigates

LRCUVA Has Reassigned Banned Doper Martin Maric To Intramural And Recreational Sports - He Won't Coach Throws At UVA This Year

UVA and Mr. Maric still are refusing to provide proof that his initial ban was the result of an "unintentional" act as they claim.
*MB:UVA Coach Serving Doping Suspension

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”