Who's on top in D-II XC this year?

The Davis 2002 squad will ride to glory on the memory of the 1984 squad which swept Chico (and everyone else) in the Conference Champs.

or maybe they\\\'ll fold like they usually do.

Hey Great Lakers, are you for real? It will be a great accomplishment for Grand Valley to put one girl ahead of Western's fifth runner.

Sara Raschiatore from Indiana University of PA to win women's D-II.

Nobody, how do you figure? The D2 1500 champ (as a true freshman!) can't beat Western's #5? Gimme a break. GVSU is a program on the rise, and this year they are gonna break through to the rarified air of Western/Adams. Don't forget that Nationals are at Ashland. They have only hosted two meets there in the last two years, and Grand Valley was at both of those! Slight advantage over the rest of the schools that have never even been to Ohio. Look for Northern Michigan to do well also for the same reason.

'Boro isn't as tough as they were last year and 'Ville is redshirting their top runner. You can probably add 30 -40 points onto their score at regionals. 'Boro will most definitely take a trip to Ashland but it's wide open for the next two spots. Ship, 'Ville, Lock Haven, and Slippery Rock will fight for the remaining few spots. They all have solid runners returning and they can all make noise if they put it together in West Virginia.

Nobody ahould brag about a womens team that is cheap and recruits foriegn runners to win, such as North Florida and Western. When the new ncaa rule goes into effect where foraign athletes only get 2 years to run, lets see who wins, probably a team like adams, uc davis, or grand valley. And dont get me started about the mens teams out there such that follow such practices!! Isnt d2 great where you can be an all american by placing 45th, and then get your ass kicked by 40 year old runners with babies watching them from the sidelines.

Hmm...

What's the connection between the following sets of times? (31:08-m, 14:42-m, 2:11-w, 18:28-w, 38:45-w) & (29:49-m, 14:25-m, 2:08-w, 16:50-w, 34:30-w)

I'll tell you! They're the pr's of North Florida's "foreign" runners (who scored 37 pts at DII outdoor last year) before they arrived at UNF(1st set) and after being there for a year(2nd set). UNF's other 10 pts were scored by a, for the most part, non-recruited American girl who ran 5:13 for a mile in HS and has since run 16:37i. The lone non-scoring athlete among UNF's qualifiers was an American guy who went from a 4:21 mile in HS to 3:47 1500m last year.

UNF recruits "average" athletes to develop into very good runners because the top athletes, american or otherwise, won't go to a DII school because they see themselves as being "better than that". And it's a really sad situation when American kids would rather quit running, or walk-on to mediocre DI teams, than take a chance, and usually a scholarship, on a team with a proven record of developing athletes! What's the coach supposed to do, give full rides to 4:30 guys and 5:30 girls?

Great Lakes, Western's #5 will either be Alisha Williams or Kristin Toney. If GV's 1500 girl beats them over 6k they will be doing very well, that's what I figure.

Anyone got some picks for the individual title? It's hard to look past Eberly, but I got to give Cele a shot at it. He was nails in track!

rugema is back and healthy

Eberly, Rowe, Zephranis, Macrae, Rugema, Cele, those are probably the top guys coming in this season. Those guys have done some big things in cross and or track. If Jim Shine is back and ready to go he may be a big force, sub 29 10k.

If Rugema is in any kind of decent shape, he will win another title. Remember what happened in Pamona? He won by as much there as Aish did last year, and Aish was in the race...abiet not at his best. If he is hurt again, those mentioned above will all be in the mix along with the other two from Adams who were 9th and 10th last year. Also, don't forget about Seimers from Western. He was 5th a year ago, but hasn't been heard from since.

Rugema ran very well at Pomona. It was warmer weather for some teams from the midwest, mountains and east and was probably pretty nice for the west and southern teams. Nationals will be in Ashland next year and if the weather does a 180 from last years national meet, which is completly possible, can Rugema still run and dominate the others?. He is really good but if he is not near his best shape than he will be in some trouble.

Nick Cordes will win it all on the home course.

Cordes is a great pick for top 5! He rolled sub 30 pretty handily at NCAA's in '01 (Edwardsville).

I dont really care how the womens team place, but all I know is the UC Davis has the hottest womens team out there!!!

I heard Olympian Mark Coogan applied for head coach at UMass Lowell.

how does lowell's team look for this year?