Coach Byrne was cagey re the Badgers lineup. Like Silvia Jelelgo at Clemson, has Wisconsin found a potential AA frosh in Christian de Vaal? We'll find out soon but not today.
Weather looks great for racing in Madison.
Heads up tomorrow for first looks at Pamela Kosgei (Cowboy Jamboree) and Noe/Thorvaldson (Chile Pepper).
Kazimierska is listed. Furman looks stronger this year. At the SC Eye Opener, the scorers finished in a tight pack and I'm not sure they were racing flat out. If everyone has a great day, maybe they slip into the top 10.
no Kazmierska, nor Aayyildiz nor Elmore for OR, no Scrimgeour for Georgetown it seems
That makes sense for Kazimierska. Figured she’d do a short base of longer work before she begins racing - after running the 1500m all summer.
didn’t see a thread but the Youbg brothers finished 2nd and 5th in Mizzou. Looks like one of them had the W in the bag but got outkicked. I think both have all american chances
I have Villanova's Liam Murphy second behind obvious winner. With the early pace of the season and it going down to 8K, I think a miler will take a lot of high-ranking names down the home stretch.
EKU’s Justine Kipkoech I have in 3rd, than Rocky Hansen, and then Casey Clinger, followed by Said Michael and Said Meslono (?), Colorado's Simon Kelati, Washington's Evan Kenkins, then the Texas A &M steeplechaser.
In the top 20 I have: 11. Joey Nokes, 12 Will Smith 13 Matt Strangio 14 Bob Liking 15 Kole Mathison (I'm gonna predict a breakout season) 16 Marco Langdon 17 James Corrigan 18 Bob Perrin, Montana St 19. Bera, Iowa St 20 Aidan Trouter, BYU
I don't think Virginia will have anyone in the top 20 but they'll probably populate thereafter. I'd love to see Jojo Jordan do well for Wake Forest today, or maybe Luke Tewalt, or WF populate the top 30-40.
Behind BYU and Iowa St, I think it will be Wake Forest, with maybe Virginia, Villanova, Colorado and UNC thereafter. If you held a gun to my head, I'd say, 3 WF 4 UNC 5 Virginia 6 UVA 7 Colorado 8 E Kentucky 9 Villanova 10 Montana St
A little surprised Oregon is running Ince as a freshman when she hated cross country in high school and obviously her strength is middle distance. but she did do well in an earlier meet I saw. but they arent running the Humphries or Lablond or many of their other freshmen. whatever happened to Lily Cridge and Kate Peters? and is Conde De Frankenberg still in Argentina or is she finally back with the team?
Ince racing may indicate some need to shore up the line up- must be some injuries? Cridge is finally racing again after injury - she ran their home meet. Rumor has it Peters ran 100 mile weeks as a high schooler and now is dealing with continual bone injuries due to over training. Strava has her biking once again.
I have Villanova's Liam Murphy second behind obvious winner. With the early pace of the season and it going down to 8K, I think a miler will take a lot of high-ranking names down the home stretch.
EKU’s Justine Kipkoech I have in 3rd, than Rocky Hansen, and then Casey Clinger, followed by Said Michael and Said Meslono (?), Colorado's Simon Kelati, Washington's Evan Kenkins, then the Texas A &M steeplechaser.
In the top 20 I have: 11. Joey Nokes, 12 Will Smith 13 Matt Strangio 14 Bob Liking 15 Kole Mathison (I'm gonna predict a breakout season) 16 Marco Langdon 17 James Corrigan 18 Bob Perrin, Montana St 19. Bera, Iowa St 20 Aidan Trouter, BYU
I don't think Virginia will have anyone in the top 20 but they'll probably populate thereafter. I'd love to see Jojo Jordan do well for Wake Forest today, or maybe Luke Tewalt, or WF populate the top 30-40.
Behind BYU and Iowa St, I think it will be Wake Forest, with maybe Virginia, Villanova, Colorado and UNC thereafter. If you held a gun to my head, I'd say, 3 WF 4 UNC 5 Virginia 6 UVA 7 Colorado 8 E Kentucky 9 Villanova 10 Montana St
I'll let it roll with Rocky, Jojo & Luke all in the top 20.
Washington's Tori Herman placed 17th in Tallahassee as a FR but has had unfortunate XC results ever since. Hope she can reverse course today.
Winning time 19:55.7. NOBODY is touching Parker's 19:17.2 for a long time. Weather was bad last year, too. Puts into perspective how great that performance was.
Just 46 runners in the Men's B; last year, there were 136. No NAU. Badgers not taking the meet seriously (they used to). Is this the end of Nuttycombe being a premier NCAA Div I CC meet?
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