NCAA D1 Declarations Out

the prelim for sure...what would be interesting in the final - noone but Valby would be interested in a fast race. Watch for who medical scrathes Sunday (as I recall)

The 10K is always listed as a semifinal for the regional meet and the final is at the national meet. How many from each regional move on to the national meet? IIRC, it's only 8 from each.

Mercy doubled last year and the 5000 was tough even with a fairly easy win in the 10000. She may have correctly thought the 10000 could be up to her, Hilda, Kemboi, Venters and she will have to run hard to win but at least no Tuohy.

12 from each region.

The 10k's look stacked. Both pretty much avoided scratches of the big names bar 1 or 2. Fay and Lopez Segura on Men's, Roe and Thorvaldson on the Women's side the only big names that i saw at first glance that scratched.

I thought Boz was injured. He’s entered in the 10k and not scratched. Is this dirty tactics by NAU? Boz enters as to not let anybody else in the meet. Then he won’t show in Sacramento?

I think like at indoors we will see some medical scratches Sunday. Why would they care about a 50ih qualifier?

not a huge surprise about Sahlman, despite winning both the 800 and 1500 at the Big Sky Championship I figured Smith would only let him do 1 event at ncaa's.

How quickly we forget. On Sunday most had Valby skipping nats due leg injury. Regional, she'll just try to be top 12. Assuming, she gets to nats, yes she'll want it fast, but it's Austin.

Now that we know who the top 48 are per region how do we put their rankings into heat sheets. Their is a formula they use. Just can’t remember it.

I can't cite the rule but in the 5000 last year it was (by order of qualifing position) 1, then 2&3, then 4&5 etc alternating heats. I believe they go by internation rules so that might be where the rule is.

Seeding is done via serpentine.

800s go down the list 1,2,3,4,5,6,6,5,4,3,2,1 etc

1500s 1,2,3,4,4,3,2,1 etc

5000s 1,2,2,1,1,2,2,1,1 etc

Based on current form, someone like Smone Plourde or a 1500m specialist like Olivia Howell might be more likely to take out Tuohy at NCAAs.

I don't remember so many of the women scratching the 5 in lieu of the 10 in the past. Maybe they did and I just was not aware. Perhaps teams feel the 10 gives a better chance at advancing on to the finals?

imho there are a number of 15:20-15:30 athletes and there is 1 15:03 athlete, so maybe they decided to go for the 10k vs the 5k?

Looks like Plourde, Tuohy, Ramsden, Tran are all doing the 1500m/5k double. Kemboi the triple (unless she scratches one by the 21st, assuming she can)

A fresh Brian Fay vs fresh Nico Young will be interesting

That sounds like an awful idea. He could win the 1500 I think.
I'm also confused as to why Illinois and Wisconsin are in the West. ARen't they east of the mississippi? Is Louisiana in the East.

There's a lot of schools along the east coast so likely it is because they need to even out the amount of schools that are in both regions so some east of the Mississippi get sent to the west