1976 NCAA XC nationals grumblefest

The NCAA News that Hodgie-San linked has d2, d3 results on page 4.

UC-Irvine went 1,2,3 with Serna, Scott, Hulst.

In d3 Hodge was runner-up, and defending champ Vin Fleming was 13th.

coachkritter wrote:

The NCAA News that Hodgie-San linked has d2, d3 results on page 4.

UC-Irvine went 1,2,3 with Serna, Scott, Hulst.

In d3 Hodge was runner-up, and defending champ Vin Fleming was 13th.

Yes, the D3 race was a big disappointment for me. It was run just after a snowstorm in Cleveland. I did not wear spikes and took a pretty bad spill while leading the race. My teammate Vin Fleming had won the year before in Boston.

Virgin was world cc champ in 81.

fishillini wrote:

Virgin was world cc champ in 81.

Hello McFly?

1979 was another impressive year for College XC. Rono went 28:19 and Salazar 28:27 on Leigh's course which reading from this thread, is much harder than Denton. I finished 19th in 29:44

The next 2 years in Lawrence Kansas was a flat fast course, however, other than UTEP, the foreign in vasion was subsiding.

If I recall correctly, they hit the mile mark in 4:17 or so....weren't 80 and 81 in Wichita?

Alan Scharsu wrote:

1979 was another impressive year for College XC.

1979 Lehigh

1. Henry Rono’ (Wash St) Sr 28:20

2. Alberto Salazar (Oregon) Sr 28:28 (1st American)

3. *Kipsubai Koskei’ (New Mexico) Jr 28:48

4. James Rotich’ (UTEP) Jr 29:04

5. *Thom Hunt (Arizona) Sr 29:09 (2nd American)

6. Mike Musyoki’ (UTEP) Jr 29:15

7. Sydney Maree’ (Villanova) Jr 29:16

8. Joel Cheruiyot’ (Wash St) Jr 29:21

9. Jon Sinclair (Colo St) Sr 29:28 (3rd American)

10. Rudy Chapa (Oregon) Sr 29:29 (4th American)

11. Chris Fox (Auburn) So 29:30 (5th American)

12. Suleiman Nyambui’ (UTEP) So 29:31

13. Solomon Chebor’ (Farleigh Dickinson) So 29:32

14. Mark Anderson (Colo) Sr 29:33 (6th American)

15. * Jim Schankel (Cal Poly SLO) Sr. 29:35 (7th American)

16. *Geir Kvernmo’ (Wyoming) Sr 29:36

17. Mark Nenow (Kentucky) Sr 29:37

18. Dan Heikkinen (Mich) Sr 29:37

19. Alan Scharsu (Penn St) So 29:40

20. Wilson Kigen’ (UTEP) Fr 29:41

21. Jim Spivey (Indiana) So 29:44

22. *Hillary Tuwei’ (Richmond) Sr 29:46

23. Tom Graves (Auburn) So 29:47

24. Don Clary (Oregon) Sr 29:50

25. Larry Cuzzort (W Kentucky) Jr 29:52

26. *Sothenes Bitok’ (Richmond) 29:52

27. *John Gregorek (Georgetown) 29:52

29. Amos Korir’ (Villanova) 2952

30. Don James (Cleveland St) 29:54

31. David Taylor (Ark) 29:57

32. Marty Ludwikowski (Manhattan) 29:57

33. Lou Kenny’ (East Tenn) 29:59

34. John Zeigler (Penn St) 29:59

35. Richard Kaitany (Iowa St) 30:00

36. Adrian Leek’ (East Tenn) 30:01

37. Ray Treacy’ (Prov) 30:02

38. *Ben Moturi’ (N Tex) 30:04

39. Mark Spilsbury (Colo) 30:04

40. Ken Martin (Oregon) 30:05

41. Jairo Correa’ (Nev) 30:05

42. Steve Crane’ (Ohio St) 30:06

43. Bill McChesney (Oregon) 30:07

44. Ron Cornell (UCLA) 30:08

45. Bill Stolp (Wash) 30:10

46. Tony Conroy’ (Ark) 30:15

47. John Tuttle (Auburn) 30:17

48. Gary Hofstetter (NC) 30:19

50. Jim Stinzi (Wisc) 30:21

*=individual

237 finishers

Team

1. UTEP 86 (3-4-10-16-53)

2. Oregon 93 (2-8-19-31-33)

3. Penn St 186 (15-27-41-46-57)

4. Colorado 189 (12-22-30-38-87)

5. Auburn 222 (9-18-36-61-98)

6. East Tenn 224

7. Villanova 245

8. Indiana 265

9. Wash St 278

10. Arkansas 291

Yes, they were. I was in the 81 race and the first mile was mostly downhill. I think I was 4:40-ish and in almost last place, LOL. Matthews Motschwaretu (sp?) won it that year, ahead of Musyoki, with a recently-injured Nyambui further back in top 10 and Alan S. the top American in ... 7th?Winning time 28:46, I think. I was around 31:20 and near the rear, haha

Love XC wrote:

If I recall correctly, they hit the mile mark in 4:17 or so....weren't 80 and 81 in Wichita?

Sorry..I couldn't eactly remember the place and guessed wrong on the location. The 1st mile was downhill and fast. I think I was 4:19, 8:55 for the 1st 2 miles then it slowed down quite a bit. It was a go out fast, hang on type of race.

Leigh race was also crazy fast. I remember being in the corn field at the mile mark, going through in 4:35 somewhere in the middle of the pack and thinking I blew it by not getting out quicker. I just kept my head down and just moved up through the pack passing a lot of guys who were hurting from going out to fast.

The results from the AAU XC race make for an interesting comparison.

http://www.gopacsports.com/Belmontplateauaaunats1976.html

That course at Belmont in Philadelphia is incredibly hilly, with some severe turns and pathways that are rocky and uneven. In other words a gritty course. The Philadelphia Catholic League still runs every meet on this course. I had the opportunity to run the 10K version one time - it was painful and I'm glad I never had to run it again.

malmo, could you also post the top 50 from '77&'78?

Thanx

Demanding aren't you? Here's 78, I see if I can dig up 77.

1978

1 29:30 Al Salazar (Ore)

2 29:33 Mike Musyoki (UTEP)

3 29:34 Tom Hunt (Ariz)

4 29:36 S. Nyambui (UTEP)

5 29:37 Steve Lacy (Wis)

6 29:40 Marc Hunter (Cleve)

7 29:47 Don Clary (Ore)

8 29:48 J Schankel (Cal Poly)

9 29:48 R. Snyder (Penn State)

10 29:48 Dan Henderson (Wheaton)

11 29:50 Mickey Morris (Utah)

12 29:50 James Munyala (UTEP)

13 29:52 Tom Graves (Auburn)

14 29:54 Rudy Chapa (Ore)

15 29:57 Jim Spivey (Indiana)

16 29:59 James Rotich (UTEP)

17 30:02 Jeff Randolph (Wisc)

18 30:03 Mark Muggleton (Ark)

19 30:03 Dan Dillon (Prov)

20 30:05 Jim Stintzi (Wisc)

Only one thing to say about 78..COLD!!

I have this for 1977.

1 Henry Rono, So., Washington State, 28:33.5

2 John Treacy, Sr., Providence, 28:51.0

3 Gerard Deegan, Providence, 28:56.9

4 Marc Hunter, Cleveland State, 29:02.2

5 Joel Cheruiyot, Washington State, 29:02.4

6 Solomon Chebor, Wyoming, 29:03.4

7 Simon Kilili, Wyoming, 29:15.1

8 Thom Hunt, So., Arizona, 29:15.9

9 Alberto Salazar, So., Oregon, 29:20.8

10 Thomas Wysocki, Nevada, 29:30.8

11 Benton Hart, Brigham Young, 29:32.6

12 Don Clary, Oregon

13 Daniel Dillon, Providence

14 Mark Spilsbury, Colorado

15 George Watts, Tennessee

16 Mike Quinn, Massachusetts

17 John Flora, Northeastern

18 Joseph Cherran, Eastern Illinois

19 Rodolpho Gomez, UTEP

20 James Munyala, UTEP

21 Octavio Octavioguabarrama, Utah <--- actual name?!

22 Mickey Morris, Utah

23 Stetson Arnold, Massachusetts

24 Bill Donakowski, Michigan

25 Kip Sirma, UTEP

Alan Scharsu wrote:

Only one thing to say about 78..COLD!!

Shrinkage, Alan?

Metawampi wrote:

malmo, could you also post the top 50 from '77&'78?

Thanx

How about something from 75:

Alan Scharsu wrote:

Only one thing to say about 78..COLD!!

77' was pretty cold as well. Pre-tights days - our coach bought us nylons to wear. They came in handy with the false starts fiasco of 77.

Thom Hunt wrote:

I only ran in one other race that was nearly as crazy as this one. That was the 1981 World Champs in Madrid where the US team finished second to Ethiopia. The Ethiopians took off early thinking they were on the finish lap and it took it out of everyone. Malmo still has a blister on his thumb from playing PacMan before the race.

Blame it on YOU. You were the one who found that game. My middle finger is permanently bent from the Pac-Man joystick.

At the starting line the entire team got together in a ring, with our fists shoved together in the center like a college team, and sang the Pac-Man Intermission song!