Does Colin Sahlman Make The Olympic Team? How Many NAU Alumni Make It?

I think it's ironic that all the NAU fanboys here celebrate all the non-USA Olympic teams their athletes are making, but they shame OSU so badly for also recruiting international athletes.

Can you all shut up already about other teams using internationals?

I think Quax raced in the LA Grand Prix B heat (could've been another meet around the same time) and dropped out. That was probably the best shot he'd have to get the standard, so I assumed he wasn't going after that. Didn't have a great NCAAs iirc.

Apparently las Heras ran 13:40 something like 10 days ago, so he's probably not making it either. I think Spain has a trials. They definitely do for 1500, so I assume they do for 5k. Maybe he could get a bunch of ranking points for winning it? But he didn't have a great NCAAs either.

I see that on his instagram profile Las Heras shows a PB of 27:50 in the 10k. Do you know when he ran that? I was not aware that he had broken 28, perhaps he could make the team in the 10k.

https://www.instagram.com/aaronlasheras

Yeah my mind switched after 2023 XC. I think more competition in the NCAA is a good thing because I think US guys will rise to compete with whoever the best is. The only reason people don't like coaches recruiting internationally is because they think US athletes can't compete with them, and that mindset is the reason we weren't competitive internationally for so long in the 90s and 2000s.

Used to be whenever an African ran super fast at a young age, everyone would say they were doping or age cheating. Now we've seen with guys like Jakob that if you train seriously from a young age, there's no reason our most talented guys can't run that fast that young.

Mindset really is the difference maker. Stop thinking 4:20 is fast for high school boys. Stop thinking 3:39/13:30 is fast for college guys. Stop thinking 3:32/13:00 is fast for professionals. Stop putting limits on what is 'fast' and the results will shock you. I promise you it's no coincidence that the first college guy to break 13 was coached in high school by a guy who said college guys should be breaking 13. It's no coincidence that after Jakob became Olympic champ, everyone started training to break 3:30 instead of having a devastating kick in a 3:35 race, and it's no coincidence that once they started training that way, way more people began running that fast.

27:50 is still 50s off the Olympic standard. World Athletics lists his 10000m pb as 28:19 from April, but a 10k road pb of 27:52 from December in Madrid, but it says not legal.