Honest question for those who have been on the website longer: Was this sentiment always so strong when Australian/New Zealand/Irish runners did well in the NCAA system or is it just because Kenyan runners are doing well now?
Other sports operate like this too. A lot of non-American basketball players come here for college but the difference is that the US is the best country for basketball already.
Double majors in economics and philosophy at world's best college
Turns around and wins NCAAs against a guy who never set foot in class
GRAHAM MF BLANKS
This is the second year in a row that the Men’s winner was a 21-year old American citizen who was a product of the American high school system and was the first ever individual XC champion from his elite university.
Sometimes it's been Commonwealth champions too - Graham MacDonald (don't want to google) from Aus and Justin Knight from Canada have won in the past, denying a USA win.
So its not always Rift Valley imports that people were whining about.
Double majors in economics and philosophy at world's best college
Turns around and wins NCAAs against a guy who never set foot in class
GRAHAM MF BLANKS
This is the second year in a row that the Men’s winner was a 21-year old American citizen who was a product of the American high school system and was the first ever individual XC champion from his elite university.
This is the second year in a row that the Men’s winner was a 21-year old American citizen who was a product of the American high school system and was the first ever individual XC champion from his elite university.
Gault says it's been 20 years and Ritz was the last.
This is the second year in a row that the Men’s winner was a 21-year old American citizen who was a product of the American high school system and was the first ever individual XC champion from his elite university.
Gault says it's been 20 years and Ritz was the last.
Charles Hicks is an American citizen that because of an “accident of birth” was born to wealthy Floridians working in London. The family moved back to Jacksonville when Charles was a preteen. However his WA allegiance is the UK because he was asked to run for the UK Junior Team before he projected as someone that might make a U.S. team someday.
I’m buckling up my helmet when Blanks walks out of Winthrop House, wearing Harvard Cross Country gear head to toe. He tells me we’ll be “jogging” today, at a 7:21-minutes-per-mile pace. The average non-elite male runner races...
