Addy Wiley attempting the QUINTUPLE at Nationals!

NCAA Nationals, or some other league? Because if it is not NCAA's, she might as well be racing against middle schoolers. Big deal!

LOL, she already beat the #1 seed at NCAAs! Wiley Coyote is on the loose. Meep meep!

The bigger surprise is how did she finish 2nd at NAIA XC Nationals - how did that happen? Hats off to the runner that beat her that day but Wiley should have won by 30+ sec. easily.

By that logic, why do they have conference records?

For the "record" this press release may be confusing to some. There is a Dakota State University in Madison, SD. But the NAIA meet will be held at South Dakota State University's indoor facility in Brookings, SD, not the "Dakota State University's Sanford Jackrabbit Athletic Complex,"

Nope.

Wow! That is a full championship. Aaaand, I'll just cap it off with a 6 mile race when I'm already tired. Well done.

Okay, to meet the their demands, only record that should be recorded for any event is the world record. No performance will have any sort of “record” label unless it is the best performance in the history of the world.

Now Wiley is an exception as she would be a 5 star recruit out of HS with an opportunity to go to any D1 school in the nation. But what makes D2, D3 and the NAIA unique in XC and Track is, you can sign athletes who are being recruited by Power 5 and Mid Major D1 schools that are being offered small scholarships. Take a HS girl who runs 5:04/11:03, most D1's would be interested in her (scholarship amount if any would vary) The odds of this runner ever running in indoor or outdoor D1 nationals is low, XC Nats maybe if she slides in as a 6th or 7th runner on a team that barely qualifies. What the D2, D3 and NAIA coach can offer is this: We are going to run our program like a D1 program. The beauty of our sport is we can compete in the regular season (XC, Indoor and Outdoor) against those D1 teams so you will run against good competition virtually every week. On top of that, you can have a great post season experience competing all over the country running in most likely 12 national championships (XC, Indoor, Outdoor X4) /// If you look at the other sports (baseball, basketball, football, soccer etc.) the D2, D3 or NAIA teams are not competing against D1 teams on a weekly basis so the chances of landing a solid D1 player in most sports for the D2, D3 or NAIA coach is much lower. That is probably why the top D2 XC team could beat 95%+ of the D1 teams and the top D3 and NAIA team could prob beat 75% of the D1 teams. That would not be the case in basketball and never in football.

Wiley Coyote, never able to keep up with the roadrunner.

It's not that crazy, look at these time which won last year. I run at a D1 school. We were barely in the top half of our region. Here's how our top times would have stacked up against those:

600 - 1:32.66 (we had one athlete run faster than this)
800 - 2:13.09 (2 athletes)
Mile - 4:55.76 (3 athletes)
3000 - 9:58.87 (4 athletes)
DMR - 11:53.84 (Our DMR was sub 11:50)

We had one athlete who ran faster than all those times herself, and she was a member of our DMR. There are A LOT of people who could win NAIAs in other divisions. Could she have won all 5? I think she'd have a good shot, but not as good as Wiley does.

She could probably get through Friday running a medium hard 400 to finish each race, so something close to 4x400 at mile pace with 1-2 hours recovery between reps.

Saturday would be tougher obviously.

Easier to do at NAIA level when the overall competition is not as tough. My freshman year there was a girl from Simon Fraser who did the 800, 1500, 4x800, 4x400 at outdoor nationals and ran prelims and finals in both relays and she won the 800 and 1500, don't recall the results of the relays, but Simon Fraser outclassed all the small NAIA schools most years until they went D2

Who cares? I know a guy who tripled in the 10k, 5k, and 1500 at a one day conference meet (he scored in all)and no one blinked an eye

My HS coach tripled in the 1500, 5k, and 10k in a single day conference meet when he was in college and he WON all 3.