Official 2015 DIII Cross Country Thread

why is david chelimo still ranked? He hasn't raced at all.

nice try NYU wrote:

Nice try NYU. After getting blasted by carnegie and beaten by dickinson and SLU, I don't think a top 15 ranking is in order.

NYU's number 1 had a big lead on the field late in the race at Dickinson but made a wrong turn because the course wasn't well marked. He most likely would've won.

No one from NCC ranked?

FlowTracknee wrote:

No one from NCC ranked?

The two likely candidates for top ten from them are Sebhat and Plank. Sebhat started slow, and has improved but I think was only their fifth last week. He has been a proven competitor over the last year, so unless he's dealing with injury, I don't think it is a stretch to think he'll be top 15 again after few more weeks. Plank, I believe, is underrated and is a legit top 5 threat.

What's the story on Kelleher? Not on the roster?

telecran wrote:

The two likely candidates for top ten from them are Sebhat and Plank. Sebhat started slow, and has improved but I think was only their fifth last week. He has been a proven competitor over the last year, so unless he's dealing with injury, I don't think it is a stretch to think he'll be top 15 again after few more weeks. Plank, I believe, is underrated and is a legit top 5 threat.

What's the story on Kelleher? Not on the roster?

Correct, Kelleher is done.

I'm Nervous wrote:

telecran wrote:

The two likely candidates for top ten from them are Sebhat and Plank. Sebhat started slow, and has improved but I think was only their fifth last week. He has been a proven competitor over the last year, so unless he's dealing with injury, I don't think it is a stretch to think he'll be top 15 again after few more weeks. Plank, I believe, is underrated and is a legit top 5 threat.

What's the story on Kelleher? Not on the roster?

Correct, Kelleher is done.

HE'S DONE

goes home devestated wrote:

I'm Nervous wrote:

Correct, Kelleher is done.

HE'S DONE

Webb is DONE

Is NCC holding Morrison out of early season meets due to his injury history? He was a bigger liability than Ryan Gosling at cornerback in remember the titans.

Team that beat NYU wrote:

nice try NYU wrote:

Nice try NYU. After getting blasted by carnegie and beaten by dickinson and SLU, I don't think a top 15 ranking is in order.

NYU's number 1 had a big lead on the field late in the race at Dickinson but made a wrong turn because the course wasn't well marked. He most likely would've won.

Well I was actually at the race. He had a small lead and took a few wrong steps. When he came back, he still had the lead. Then he got destroyed by several guys in the race who actually knew how to pace. But good try NYU

Ryan Gosling wrote:

Is NCC holding Morrison out of early season meets due to his injury history? He was a bigger liability than Ryan Gosling at cornerback in remember the titans.

I heard he is cross training in Utah and flying back for the regional meet

Exactly. He only had the lead b/c he probably thought he had 400m left when there was actually over 1200m left. Took off way too soon and then died hard.

Any big races this weekend to shake up the rankings?

Not this upcoming weekend, but results from last weekend moved Eau Claire up to 1st in the region over North Central. (Link: http://www.ustfccca.org/2015/10/featured/three-no-1-teams-take-over-in-diii-regional-polls). Must be first time in a while. National rankings tomorrow shall be interesting

I heard flotrack took over the USTFCCCA rankings both regionally and nationally for the week. should be interesting.

Williams is shit and LAX is the best.

National ranking link isn't up yet, but ALLTIME rank shows the ranking for the new week. Eau Claire up to 1, NCC down to 2, St. Olaf to 3, Amherst to 4, Geneseo up to 6, Williams to 7, Haverford way up to 9. That's all I found, if anyone wants to fill in the gaps. My takes: NCC should not be so high, I know they always reload, but they are very unproven. Williams looked good at Paul Short, and beat Geneseo comfortably the week before, so should not be below them.

SneakyP wrote:

http://www.ustfccca.org/assets/rankings/div3/2015-xc/DIII_XC_Week-By-Week-ByRank-ALLTIME.pdf

National ranking link isn't up yet, but ALLTIME rank shows the ranking for the new week. Eau Claire up to 1, NCC down to 2, St. Olaf to 3, Amherst to 4, Geneseo up to 6, Williams to 7, Haverford way up to 9. That's all I found, if anyone wants to fill in the gaps. My takes: NCC should not be so high, I know they always reload, but they are very unproven. Williams looked good at Paul Short, and beat Geneseo comfortably the week before, so should not be below them.

I'm very confused where this whole idea of NCC being unproven is coming from, They ran at Notre Dame this last weekend (which is 5 miles, not 8k) so their converted to 8k times were: 24:22, 25:00, 25:06, 25:08, 25:20. That would make them pretty competitive right at the top with Eau Claire,

Open New England meet at Franklin park this weekend should give us a better idea of how good Amherst is. Their #1 is as good as anybody, and their #2 (Crowley) is a top 35 guy at nationals. Their 3-5 guys showed well at purple valley, but they are all either young, inexperienced, or both. There was also a massive drop-off from 5 to 6. Will be interesting to see how their results and times compare on a course that runs roughly the same as Paul Short.