Way Too Early Predictions for the 2022 WOMENS NCAA D1 XC Championships

I found 2 people with name OLEMOMOI HILDA:

different DOBs so probably different people

Hilda Chebet, the consensus seems to be she will be a big upgrade, but probably not AA.

Preseason Picks

Stride Report - not yet done but looking like 1) NC St, 2 NM, 3 OK St

Flotrack - 1) NC St, 2) NM, 3) CO/BYU

Me - 1) NC St, 2) NM, 3 OK St (tho a lot of assumptions with the cowgirls)

You have the teams but in reverse order.

Flotrack is on hard drugs if they think BYU is top 3/4.

I would put them 9th/7th.

OK State is also overrated.

All the polls and rankings I’ve seen have BYU about 4th.

Woodreport has them 9th.

Polls/rankings don't use algorithms the way woodreport does.

Sorry, wrong thread. That’s the guys.

Woodreport hasn’t added BYU’s transfer to the team. They will be a lot better with her, but still probably shouldn’t be ranked higher than 7th.

I should add Wood Report has 1) NC St, 2) NM, 3) AL.

Tho I'm not sure about having 5 from NC St in top 10......

I have BYU/CO/AL fighting it out for 4th with about 200 pts

Hutchins might be a bust.

BYU is heavily promoting Frentheway, Halladay, McKenna Lee in their preseason report.

Not one word about their young phenom.

Ok State will actually win, NC State is overrated.

I would really like to know how NC State is overrated?!?!?! and how on earth OK state can win?!?!?

The (unlikely to happen) answer is Roe and Cook finish top 5, and Born, Jepkirui and Hentemann finish 25th or better.

You got it. If that happens, then NC State was overrated.

No chance in hell Cook is top 5. Cook may be in the top 40. Now if we want to talk overrated, that would be Cook. From a cross country perspective she got exposed at Eastbay. She is not very strong and is not a good hill runner at all, and the National course will expose her even more. Her form is not built for hills. she will be lucky to be in front of NC State’s 4th runner. And in her defense, the only reason she is overrated is because of that stupid Running Lane course that is a joke, and fans and media blew her up because of a time that means nothing on the flattest and easiest course in America.

in fairness, she did run 15:25 as I recall.

In fairness, because I think your right…..that is why I said from a CC perspective. Because her bad form can translate fine on a track, but hills on dirt and grass does not translate well because her form is very non efficient. She will not be much of a factor at cc Nationals

ewert wins first race. No sign of Thorvaldson

Didn't see this posted yet...but here's more video of Kelsey Chmiel running, and in the top group here at practice just a couple days ago. Starliper, Tuohy, Bush, and Seymour all running in this group: