Rematch in the 3000SC between Angelina Napoleon (9:29) and Sophie Novak (9:27) from the wake Forest invit. Will Novak let Napoleon pace the race and just out kick Napoleon at the end????
Didn't mean to disrespect these two athletes (in case poster didb is reading). The correct time for Napoleon is 9:29:20 and Novak is 9:27:97!
Rematch in the 3000SC between Angelina Napoleon (9:29) and Sophie Novak (9:27) from the wake Forest invit. Will Novak let Napoleon pace the race and just out kick Napoleon at the end????
I didn't know Novak could compete for a Conf title while redshirting this season.
The heat sheets show Novak time as 9:40. The reason is unattached races don't count. Now that she has declared, she can't redshirt anymore. Btw, Novak still needs a regional qualifier since the 9:27:97 didn't count. So maybe Napoleon let's Novak pace the race knowing she needs the q and can't run a strategic race.
Rematch in the 3000SC between Angelina Napoleon (9:29) and Sophie Novak (9:27) from the wake Forest invit. Will Novak let Napoleon pace the race and just out kick Napoleon at the end????
Didn't mean to disrespect these two athletes (in case poster didb is reading). The correct time for Napoleon is 9:29:20 and Novak is 9:27:97!
He would only have a problem if you said Novak was 9:28. You apparently agree with him but are not bright enough to know what the issue was.
LHL ended up in the one heat of the four that had the two best kickers. All the heats were slow. If she had pushed from farther out she would have at least got the little Q.
Hilda let Noe drop her in 10,000 but posts 33:15 which should qualify. Not sure how much she just let her go though.
I don't know what to make of Olemomoi's performance tonight. She mooched the entire race, did none of the work up front and when Noe opened her stride and went to the arms in the final 2k, Hilda picked up her cadence but I couldn't discern a push to fight for the win. Maybe just conservative racing by design, maybe she was struggling (more than Noe) due to the heat and factors unknown. Hard to tell.
The finish to the SEC M 10k was thrilling. Gillen and Kiprop away with 800m remaining, Gillen takes it at the bell, pulls 5m clear of Kiprop down the backstretch and holds it until 60m to go when Kiprop finds an extra gear, a jolt of acceleration that shoots him in ftw.
Wolfe wins the 10,000 at ACCs in a time that puts him at #47 on the regional list- not that I think he'd do it but he could iif he wanted. Wolfe closed in 60.23 - 57.25 to take down Lex Young and everyone else at ACCs
1 Parker Wolfe SR-4 North Carolina 28:51.09 ACC 10 2 Lex Young SO-2 Stanford 28:55.29 ACC 8 3 Ethan Coleman JR-3 Notre Dame 28:59.86 ACC 6 4 Geoffrey Kirwa FR-1 Louisville 29:04.91 ACC 5 5 Sam Lawler SR-4 Syracuse 29:08.12 ACC 4 6 Assaf Harari JR-3 Syracuse 29:09.29 ACC 3 7 Zach Leachman SO-2 Florida State 29:10.02 ACC 2 8 Nicholas Kipchirchir FR-1 Virginia Tech 29:16.63 ACC 1 9 Colton Sands SR-4 North Carolina 29:22.69 ACC - 10 Justin Wachtel JR-3 Virginia 29:37.58 ACC - 11 Andrew Jones SR-4 Virginia 29:37.77 ACC - 12 Perry Mackinnon SR-4 Syracuse 29:39.57 ACC - 13 Linus Chepkochei FR-1 Virginia Tech 29:43.50 ACC - 14 Daniel Winter SO-2 Wake Forest 29:44.17 ACC - 15 Joe Farley SR-4 Florida State 29:57.96 ACC - 16 Jackson Keefer SO-2 Wake Forest 30:01.32 - 17 Nolan Topper JR-3 Stanford 30:02.18 - 18 Robert Cozean SR-4 Notre Dame 30:03.78 - 19 Sawyer Dagan SR-4 Clemson 30:04.54 - 20 Sean Kay SR-4 Notre Dame 30:08.41 - 21 Charlie Sprott JR-3 Wake Forest 30:08.78 - 22 Sam Hubert SR-4 Virginia Tech 30:09.57 - 23 Robert DiDonato SR-4 Stanford 30:14.85 - 24 Jacob Laney FR-1 North Carolina 30:18.32 - 25 Luke Miller SR-4 Pittsburgh 30:20.74 - 26 Lucas Bouquot JR-3 Florida State 30:20.95 - 27 Devin Wade SR-4 Georgia Tech 30:22.00 - 28 Cole Nash SR-4 Notre Dame 30:32.16 - 29 Patrick Anderson SR-4 North Carolina 30:32.73 - 30 Conor Bohrer JR-3 Duke 30:43.80 - 31 John Malach SR-4 NC State 30:48.82 - 32 Theodor Schucht FR-1 Boston College 31:02.93 - 33 Omar Alsaidi FR-1 Syracuse 31:03.24 - 34 Sean Morello SO-2 Duke 31:31.76 - 35 Edward Sullivan JR-3 Boston College 31:40.42 - Richard Moreno SO-2 Virginia DNF - Noah Breker FR-1 North Carolina DNF - Tyler Berg SR-4 Notre Dame DNF - Sam Rich SO-2 Notre Dame DNF - Kevin Sanchez FR-1 Notre Dame DNF - Ian Kibiwot SR-4 Louisville DNF -
Hilda let Noe drop her in 10,000 but posts 33:15 which should qualify. Not sure how much she just let her go though.
I don't know what to make of Olemomoi's performance tonight. She mooched the entire race, did none of the work up front and when Noe opened her stride and went to the arms in the final 2k, Hilda picked up her cadence but I couldn't discern a push to fight for the win. Maybe just conservative racing by design, maybe she was struggling (more than Noe) due to the heat and factors unknown. Hard to tell.
Hilda picked up 8 points for FL and is now q'd for nats in 10000.
I don't know what to make of Olemomoi's performance tonight. She mooched the entire race, did none of the work up front and when Noe opened her stride and went to the arms in the final 2k, Hilda picked up her cadence but I couldn't discern a push to fight for the win. Maybe just conservative racing by design, maybe she was struggling (more than Noe) due to the heat and factors unknown. Hard to tell.
Hilda picked up 8 points for FL and is now q'd for nats in 10000.
Lex Young seems to have taken very well to the 10k. Maybe that shouldn't be surprising given he was the HS 5k record holder, and Nico's success at the 10k. Idk maybe I'm just surprised he isn't running better at shorter distances. After his 27:48 with a 13:4x last 5k, he ran 13:40 and 13:35 in his next 2 races. Now he's 2nd in the ACC 10k, kinda getting his doors blown off by Parker Wolfe, but closer to Wolfe than 3rd place was to him. Wolfe is probably a top 20 guy in the world though, so great for Lex. Also Lex won his first steeple race a couple weeks ago, is he planning on running it at ACCs? I'd love to see someone tackle the 10k/steeple double lol I don't think I've seen it before.
Also semi unrelated but I just read about the GST changes, and I feel like NCAA track is a way better product than GST or the Diamond League or really anything besides the Olympics/maybe Worlds, and I don't feel that way with the NBA/NFL (although I'm a very casual fan of them). You get tons of teams racing basically every 2 weeks from Jan-March, April-June, and Sept-Nov. You have the teams tied to specific locations aspect of other sports leagues, but instead of teams competing 1v1, you throw 15-30 people onto a track and see who wins. Plus it's easier for individual stars to shine, because unlike other team sports, it's clear who the best person is in each competition: the person who wins. And also, people like Mu, Hocker, Garcia Romo, Nico Young, Blanks, Wolfe, and plenty more have shown that you can race dozens of times per year in the NCAA and still be competitive at Worlds/Olys. Plus there's cross country, which everyone loves. And you get stuff like conference weekend and regionals that's analogous to the NBA playoffs (or at least more analogous than anything else in T&F).
I'm kinda yapping but I'm just so much more excited to see a bunch of college kids essentially run prelims than to watch GST that it makes me think they're going the complete wrong way with the league.
Lex Young seems to have taken very well to the 10k. Maybe that shouldn't be surprising given he was the HS 5k record holder, and Nico's success at the 10k. Idk maybe I'm just surprised he isn't running better at shorter distances. After his 27:48 with a 13:4x last 5k, he ran 13:40 and 13:35 in his next 2 races. Now he's 2nd in the ACC 10k, kinda getting his doors blown off by Parker Wolfe, but closer to Wolfe than 3rd place was to him. Wolfe is probably a top 20 guy in the world though, so great for Lex. Also Lex won his first steeple race a couple weeks ago, is he planning on running it at ACCs? I'd love to see someone tackle the 10k/steeple double lol I don't think I've seen it before. . .
No.
Running Steeple was a one-off, just to score points at the Cal-Stanford duel meet.
Lex took several significant scalps tonight including Kirwa/Louisville & Sands/NC who have better 5000 prs -- as well as Kirwa's recent 8:13 steeplechase.
Earlier, Leo won his 1500 heat, almost turning around 90 deg a few times down the home straight to size up other runners behind him. Great experience awaiting him Saturday when he goes up against Strand, Martin & McQuity in the finals.
Image it's all smiles in the Young family these days.