Nuttycombe Invitational 2022

Beattie has track eligibility but not XC. Already used 4 years + covid redshirt season.

Major props to Andrea as she has that program back to the level Kevin had built it to. This is more proof that having the right coach at a school can mean everything. That school normally would have no business being at this level. Kevin and Andrea both have shown that it is possible. Urban state school in a G5 conference. Not a lot of them out there getting to the NCAAs.

Pre Nats womens race is on... Cook and Roe not running.

No Henteman either. What happened to Molly born? No results since last cross. Still on the roster

The UTEP team in the 1980s(?) scored 17 (1/2/3/5/6), I do not think anyone will ever touch that. Standford and Wisconsin each had tremendous teams in the 2000s, Stanford's has been mentioned but Wisconsin with Simon B winning, Solinsky 3rd and their sixth man about 17th scored about 35 points. At Big Tens that year they went 1/2/3/4/6/7/8/9; the last guy only got beat by one non-Wisconsin guy but did not get All-Big Ten and did not even count officially (Big Ten allows nine per team since the field is small).

But this is a minor quibble. this post was really good. I think that Hicks might only have one more year, maybe because he does not intend to go past his Senior year.

I heard Ed Eyestone remark how incredible it was that his top five finished within two seconds.

As for what all of this portends for NCAAs it is still early and this is the first of a series of potentially tough races (depending on how hard (and important) Conference and Region are as it is too soon to taper at all (with the possible exception that for some teams this can be the most important race of the year if they need a really good performance to make the NCAA meet in a Region like the Great Lakes, etc).

Not sure why people were not liking this post.

And while I am at it this is one of the better long race threads, I really appreciate all of the comments. I was there for the race but did not have the advantage of being able to see the 'whole' race since I was busy on the course.

The Chicago Marathon thread was one of the worst. Why to people have to say exactly the same thing more than 50 times complaining about stuff, probably 80% of the posts were useless and had essentially no content, it is one of the things that makes LetsRun sometimes not worth the bother -- . Wait until you have something to say and then add the briefest end with the complaint. Maybe the monitors should just kill a lot of the repetitive complaints, so that the number of good and useful posts could stand out like they should of.

I was watching the women’s race slightly past 5k when Touhy had just laid down the hammer in her winning move. She was completely relaxed and under control. This race played out similarly to last year and as predicted by those of us familiar with this meet. Touhyfan would benefit from watching more NCAA races vs Nike HS nationals when making predictions.

The Wisco course has legitimate hills but they there are less of them than OSU. Footing at both courses is very good but the grass at OSU is pristine like a country club fairway. Both courses have flowing sweeping turns. Because of the tougher hills I’d guess OSU is ~5 sec per mile slower than Wisco in same conditions.

I agree but not getting much LOVE.

Now that the meet is over, we can all share a laugh together.

@ 6:38 he interviews Nevada Moreno about being the slowest runner at the meet (If you don’t already know, as semihaze comments on the video, she was instrumental as part of the tie-breaker w/ New Mexico).

Why didn’t you think he would have scored?

Why are Tuohy and Young wearing gloves? They’re so soft

the more you fk around, the more you find out

How do you know that the gloves they were wearing were soft?

The Washington men were literally wearing hoodies ??