Pac-12 XC Championships 2023 Discussion Thread

To this point, in the last 10 years on the men's side only 10 individuals not from CU, UO, UW, or Stanford have finished in the top 10 for a total of 13 top-10 performances. 6 by UCLA, 3 by WSU, 2 by Cal, 1 by each of the Arizonas.

• 2013 -nobody
• 2014 -10th Chris Walden (Cal)
• 2015 -5th Lane Werley (UCLA), 9th John Whelan (WSU), 10th Chris Walden (Cal)
• 2016 -5th Ferdinand Edmond (UCLA), 10th Jonah Diaz (UCLA)
• 2017 -6th Robert Brandt (UCLA), 9th Chandler Teigen (WSU)
• 2018 -7th Chandler Teigen (WSU)
• 2019 -5th Robert Brandt (UCLA), 10th Garrett Reynolds (UCLA)
• "2020" -6th Victor Ortiz-Rivera (UA)
• 2021 -nobody
• 2022 -9th Vincent Mauri (ASU)
• 2023 -nobody

Live results are still busted but the static results are here:

https://static.pac-12.com/sports/cross-country/2023-championships/2023_Pac-12_MXC_Championship_results.pdf

Don’t see it mentioned, but Larry Josh Edwards isn’t racing either and he was, what, third overall at Dellinger unattached earlier this year? Sucks had plenty of hay in the barn to win conference if they chose to win conference.

Are any of those coaches on the chopping block? WSU, Arizona, ASU or CAL?

6 Edwards, Josh Oregon 23:02.50

I stand corrected… my mistake.

Leo Young must be redshirting. He didn't run Nuttycombe nor PAC-12's while Lex ran both.

OSU hasn't put anyone in the top 150 in YEARS!!

This is a bad joke, bring back OSU men's TF

Wow Bunnage took down Kaylee Mitchell by 10 seconds. Very impressive

Super fast times all around too, 19:09 ftw.

Or not

Oregon didn't run:

Birnbaum (would've been at least with that Oregon pack at 5-8)

Isaiah Steury (transfer, 63rd at nccas last year as a true freshman)

Sergio Del Bario (29th at U20 world cross in Feb, 8:39 steeple, euro U20 champ)

That course ran that fast in early 2021 too.....Donahu won in 19:09 and staggered to the line in Stillwater in 10th place, 20:27

* Donahu was 2nd at Pac 12......

Aussies cleaning up

Leo ran the Virginia Invitational (46th) in uniform on September 23rd, so I don't think redshirting was the intention. Someone on a different thread just said that he's recovering from an appendectomy, but I don't have any info myself to corroborate that.

Fast times = short course.

Arizona should be, if you see the roster downsizing and turnover since the exit of James Li and the one year with Ryan Ray, it should be a red flag for any institution. You'd think a power 5 school wouldn't pick a celebrity with no previous coaching experience and a former high school coach to have so much reign. This year the women's team had to pull from triathlon just to score at meets. Definitely a reflection of poor coaching, and unfortunate for the athletes who deserve better.

2023 Pacific 12 Conference Championship Men 8 km - hosted by the University of Washington Results
1 Ky Robinson, Stanford 22:40.20 8 1
2 Luke Houser, Washington 22:51.80 8 2
3 Cole Sprout, Stanford 22:56.50 8 4
3 Nathan Green, Washington 22:56.50 8 3
5 Elliott Cook, Oregon 23:00.30 8 5
6 Josh Edwards, Oregon 23:02.50 8 6
7 Quincy Norman, Oregon 23:03.30 8 7
8 Austin Vancil, Colorado 23:09.00 8 8
9 Robert DiDonato, Stanford 23:10.50 8 9
10 Evan Jenkins, Washington 23:12.90 8 10
11 Noah Hibbard, Colorado 23:16.30 8 11
12 Lex Young, Stanford 23:17.50 8 12
13 Garrett MacQuiddy, California 23:18.20 8 13
14 Carrick Denker, California 23:19.10 8 14
15 Evan Burke, Stanford 23:20.50 8 15
16 Leo Daschbach, Washington 23:20.70 8 16
17 Paul Stafford, Colorado 23:20.80 8 17
18 Isaiah Givens, Colorado 23:27.30 8 18
19 Tyrone Gorze, Washington 23:29.70 8 19
20 Abdinasir Hussein, Oregon 23:31.50 8 20
21 Jamar Distel, Washington 23:32.60 8 21
22 Aiden Smith, Oregon 23:33.20 8 22
23 Brian Barsaiya, Washington St. 23:33.50 8 23
24 Benjamin Balazs, Oregon 23:33.80 8 24
25 Giuliano Scasso, Oregon 23:37.00 8 25
26 Joe Waskom, Washington 23:39.20 8 26
27 Jake Derouin, Colorado 23:43.10 8 27
28 Kelvin Limo, Washington St. 23:48.10 8 28
29 Connor Burns, Oregon 23:50.30 8
30 James Overberg, Colorado 23:53.10 8 29
31 Ronan McMahon-Staggs, Washington 23:54.50 8
32 Caleb Niednagel, Colorado 23:56.60 8 30
33 Leif Swanson, Washington St. 23:57.20 8 31
34 Charles Welch, Colorado 23:59.30 8
35 Caden Carney, California 24:00.30 8 32
36 Ian Sanchez Lopez, Arizona 24:00.50 8 33
37 Michael Urbanski, Arizona 24:00.90 8 34
38 John Sesteaga, California 24:05.40 8 35
39 James Crabtree, Washington 24:07.40 8
40 Zane Bergen, Stanford 24:08.10 8 36
41 Milo Skapinsky, Stanford 24:08.20 8 37
42 Justin Pretre, California 24:09.70 8 38
43 Archie Noakes, Oregon 24:17.50 8
44 Kutoven Stevens, Oregon 24:18.50 8
45 Callum Sherry, Stanford 24:20.40 8
46 Kyle Ortega-Gammill, Washington St. 24:22.90 8 39
47 Mateo Bianchi, Ucla 24:23.90 8 40
48 Noah Jodon, Arizona 24:25.30 8 41
49 Grady Rauba, Colorado 24:27.00 8
50 Brennan Foody, Arizona 24:28.10 8 42
51 Gabe Abbes, California 24:28.80 8 43
52 Liam Anderson, Stanford 24:30.80 8
53 Dylan Wilbur, Ucla 24:34.90 8 44
54 Cooper Quigley, Arizona 24:41.00 8 45
55 Harrison Dance, Ucla 24:46.90 8 46
56 Micah Galeana, Washington St. 24:49.50 8 47
57 Jacob Easton, Washington St. 24:52.30 8 48
58 Julian Doak, California 24:57.70 8 49
59 Gibson Kibia, Arizona 24:57.80 8 50
60 Tyler Schierenberg, Arizona State 25:04.00 8 51
61 Ethan Martin, Washington St. 25:06.90 8 52
62 Johnathan Estrada, Arizona State 25:14.20 8 53
63 John Lester, Stanford 25:18.00 8
64 Eric Gibson, Washington 25:20.20 8
65 Alex Lodewick, California 25:22.20 8
66 Evan Bruce, Washington St. 25:24.80 8
67 Andrew Gibby, Arizona 25:27.70 8 54
68 Eric Swedin, Washington St. 25:28.90 8
69 Hunter Appleton, Colorado 25:32.30 8
70 Conor Gibson, Ucla 25:33.80 8 55
71 Jai Dawson, Ucla 25:36.90 8 56
72 Kristian Kimberlin, Arizona State 25:55.40 8 57
73 Chris Chavez, Ucla 26:04.50 8 58
74 Ethan Bukowski, Arizona State 26:11.20 8 59
75 Mark Cortes, Ucla 26:23.50 8 60
76 Grayson Wilcott, Washington St. 26:41.00 8
77 Rowdy Menefee, Arizona State 26:51.30 8 61
78 Zach Weaver, Arizona State 26:52.10 8 62
79 Asher Leslie, Arizona State 26:57.80 8 63

Team Scores Results - Men
1 Stanford 41 1 4 9 12 15 36 37
Total Time: 1:55:25.20 Average: 23:05.04
2 Washington 50 2 3 10 16 19 21 26
Total Time: 1:55:51.61 Average: 23:10.32
3 Oregon 60 5 6 7 20 22 24 25
Total Time: 1:56:10.80 Average: 23:14.16
4 Colorado 81 8 11 17 18 27 29 30
Total Time: 1:56:56.50 Average: 23:23.30
5 California 132 13 14 32 35 38 43 49
Total Time: 1:58:52.70 Average: 23:46.54
6 Washington St. 168 23 28 31 39 47 48 52
Total Time: 2:00:31.20 Average: 24:06.24
7 Arizona 195 33 34 41 42 45 50 54
Total Time: 2:01:35.80 Average: 24:19.16
8 Ucla 241 40 44 46 55 56 58 60
Total Time: 2:04:56.40 Average: 24:59.28
9 Arizona State 281 51 53 57 59 61 62 63
Total Time: 2:09:16.10 Average: 25:51.22

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/gostanford.com/documents/2023/10/27/final_results_men_pac_12.pdf

Is a Conference Championships meaningless in this day and age?

Back when… it was treated very seriously by the AD, Coach and therefore the athletes. It was a big deal. Even Oregon showed up - back when.