Charles Hicks is an American citizen that because of an “accident of birth” was born to wealthy Floridians working in London. The family moved back to Jacksonville when Charles was a preteen. However his WA allegiance is the UK because he was asked to run for the UK Junior Team before he projected as someone that might make a U.S. team someday.
Therefore we shouldn't claim Hicks as an American runner if he's not going to represent the US
Anything but a "Hot Take".
One reason some are making a big deal about Blanks's victory is because of his demographic profile (21 year old American guy from an Elite college that had never produced an individual NCAA XC before). My point was that Hicks has the exact same demographic profile (and they have even more in common because both are the product of Southern Prep schools) so Blanks's victory is not that out of the ordinary if the guy that won the year before has the same demographic profile.
The N in NCAA stands for National. Which is the United States of America here.
People like you get coaches fired. Coaches get in trouble because clowns like you flame ethnic and other divisions on a team.
That’s very kind of you to assume I have such major influence. But no one is making such decisions based on random comments on internet message boards.
Also XC coaches don’t get fired for not winning like in the football or basketball money sports. So your point is pretty dumb.
