Mo Bati is a man of the NORTH through and through. A blue collar racer who stayed true to his roots and couldn’t get bought out by the east coast money.
EDIT: *this is in reply to the question of if I think Bati will win an all out effort race* I don't think he will win but who knows? I want him or someone to take it from the gun and see an all out grind. I think I'd like to see Grant Matthai win.
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Everyone complains about BYU, Iowa State, and OSU having old runners, but everyone ignores the fact that Bati is 27 yrs old. I mean, the dude trains with Minnesota Distance Elite half the year, thats a pro-am team. Maybe he should learn when to call it quits and leave it for the rest of the true college-aged runners
The men of UW schools understand how to work hard - back in my day I would mine coal for 12 hours before running a marathon every day. The Matthai twins are studying hard for their double major (shapes and colors) and will actually make a difference when they graduate. They both have return offers to McDonalds, and will be able to fondly remember their DIII National Championship while they flip McPatties for the rest of their lives.
If they could read this would be devastating. As it is, maybe a UW rocket scientist equivalent might be able to puzzle out the hieroglyphics and read it to their compatriots.
0/10 troll job. Very uncreative. Is "lacrosse fast because dumb and affordable" really the best you can come up with?
If they could read this would be devastating. As it is, maybe a UW rocket scientist equivalent might be able to puzzle out the hieroglyphics and read it to their compatriots.
0/10 troll job. Very uncreative. Is "lacrosse fast because dumb and affordable" really the best you can come up with?
I mean, is it wrong though?
UWLax is fast because it's an affordable in-state school with almost no academic standards in a state with no D2.
I'd love to see Wartburg steal the win under their noses. Imagine the ego you need to think people want to watch you bug your teammates all day on YouTube. Also, that guy who wears the wife-beater in all the workouts. Have some class dude.
uhh it's called aura buddy. I know you think that every runner should look like a twink out there but he has every girl in the wiac with their pants on the floor with that wife-beater and mustache
Stay mad sport. You’re just upset because deep down you know I’m right. Someone more mature would admit that. And dress better.
Literally nothing is stopping someone from training hard in Boulder or something for 3-4 years out of HS before entering college. Its a cheat code but legal
UWL runners hardly ever idle around. Grant has shown in previous national champs (2025 3k, indoor 5k, 10k) he's willing to follow in Gregg's footsteps and be the guy who pushes the pace. I can't guarantee that in an XC race though where he's lost to two of the main contenders this year already. I still would bet on him making the first move.
Leblond and Bati haven't lost this year, and Isaac beat Grant pretty handily at Augustana. As far as history goes, Leblond is the most consistent national performer (going for his 4th XC AA, while no one else among top contenders has more than 1). I don't like Isaac's history (never been higher than 65th at nationals), but this definitely could be the year he figured it out.
Bati honestly has only ever had a big D3 performance one time: XC nationals 2024. But I expect he's figured out how to taper off those 150 mile weeks now.
Grant would have been my favorite entering the year, but the way he's lost to two of these guys it should be a tossup between these 4. I acknowledge that his North region loss may have just been him packing it in, but he was a pretty clear 2nd.
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0/10 troll job. Very uncreative. Is "lacrosse fast because dumb and affordable" really the best you can come up with?
Looks like a UW rocket scientist has managed to decipher my post. First of all, good job! Second, I'll provide the editorial advice that you missed putting a "1" as the first digit in your post. As in, "10/10 troll job." I see that math is as difficult as reading for the UW system.
LAX gets the win, no surprise there. The georgetown reject leads Suny G to second, and Fartburg chokes yet again to wind up in third. NYU with a good day to grab a podium spot, RPI chokes yet again to miss out on their first podium and gets fifth. Leblond may have won individually, but Hopkins collapses and gets sixth. Fun race overall, D3 xc is the best.
Hopkins’s 3 man all race Rowan Cassidy fell 219 spots in the final kilometer, from 21st to 240th, split a 4:42. Hope everything is alright with him. Tough way to miss out on a podium spot.
All the uppity, elitist, private school trust fund babies on this message board owe a sincere apology to the men of La Crosse. The impressive performance of these legendary human beings is the direct result of a blue collar work ethic, the ability to dig deep which only those that have to work for things would know, and their vlogs. I hope when each and everyone of you are sitting on mommy and daddy’s yacht, you do some deep self reflection, and realize the true reason as to why the 2025 Lax XC sent everyone home devastated.
Congrats to LAX and Leblond. Landscape is going to look a lot different next year: 8 of the top 10 and 14 of the top 20 are seniors. La Crosse and Wartburg also graduate a huge chunk of each of their top 7s (including La Crosse's 1-5). Geneseo, NYU, and Hopkins all look like they return quite a bit (Yes, Hopkins loses Leblond but they had a freshman get 19th today).
0/10 troll job. Very uncreative. Is "lacrosse fast because dumb and affordable" really the best you can come up with?
Looks like a UW rocket scientist has managed to decipher my post. First of all, good job! Second, I'll provide the editorial advice that you missed putting a "1" as the first digit in your post. As in, "10/10 troll job." I see that math is as difficult as reading for the UW system.
Hey now, don't be talking crap about the 2025 NCAA elite scholar-athlete Grant Mathai. 4.0 student in the college of shapes and colors.
0/10 troll job. Very uncreative. Is "lacrosse fast because dumb and affordable" really the best you can come up with?
Looks like a UW rocket scientist has managed to decipher my post. First of all, good job! Second, I'll provide the editorial advice that you missed putting a "1" as the first digit in your post. As in, "10/10 troll job." I see that math is as difficult as reading for the UW system.
I’m not arguing that us public university kids aren’t a bunch of dummies who couldn’t go D1. But I can tell you don’t/didn’t go to a school that is better than UW-Lacrosse either. Because if you did, you could come up with something smarter or funnier than this. You would also know that the advantages that the UW and SUNY schools have are balanced by the world-wide pull that the elite schools have. MIT, Hopkins, NYU, Chicago, and Tufts have athletes from a minimum of 14 states. Lacrosse and SUNY G basically recruit from 1 state each. They got 1st and 2nd with squads made up entirely of in-state kids who like to grind and do it for the love of the game. And while they’re obviously higher quality, let’s not act like the prestigious D3 private schools are some poor little damsels in distress. Their “disadvantage” of ridiculous tuition is self-inflicted in order to cultivate a perception of quality. But the MIT and Hopkins grads already know all this. It’s an even playing field and D3 XC is the best.