Official 2025 NCAA Regionals Discussion Thread - Any surprises?

I got home late and just catching on East coverage now with basically no commentary just results - very odd.

800m now:

Watcke looked good in heat 1
Plant -- a strong 1500m runner too -- good in 2
Matsatsa same in heat 4

Collegiate leader Christian Jackson has to work hard to qualify in heat 5, behind Tuohy and Rodman of Princeton

Rinaldo Marshall dq'ed for having a Wisconsin guy shove him from behind???

Darius Smallwood's PB is 1:46.28, I'm kind of surprised he didn't make it. Also, Aden Bandukwala.

Hoserlauden wrote:

Im shocked Parker Wolfe scratched the 10k. He’d have the fastest close in the field on paper with his 3:34 1500 pr earlier this year. Leaves Ishmael kipkurui and Habtom Samuel as the heavy favorites, along with that Texas tech fella.

Seems like his stress fracture was likely the root cause for Parker Wolfe (UNC) scratching the 10k.

Why is Lachlan Wellington showing up as Beef Wellington on Tfrrs and the East 10K?

https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/7742074/Iona/Lachlan_Wellington.html

https://flashresults.ncaa.com/Outdoor/2025/FirstRounds/East/008-1-01.htm

Someone hacked into it....Maybe he just entered his name as Beef.

Oh, darn. Izaiah Steury, dnf.

observing results wrote:

ewamp04 wrote:

One big result in the West Region 1500, Indoor All-American miler Ronan McMahon-Staggs from Washington didn’t even advance to the regional finals! Just missed out on the big Q. This is the beauty of the regional qualification format. Don’t know why this isn’t the way all divisions do their postseason.

Looks like Leo Young nipped him by 0.07 seconds to get the last Q, running his last 400m in 53.13 vs. Ronan’s 53.22.

He had 4th with 100 to go but Sahlman and Stitt passed him.

Runnerrrrr wrote:

Darius Smallwood's PB is 1:46.28, I'm kind of surprised he didn't make it. Also, Aden Bandukwala.

Bandukwala went out in 52.71 (and was last at the bell). Just bit off more than he could chew. I'd guess that was like splits of 25/27 though, not an even 26.3/26.4

Hobby10k wrote:

Why is Lachlan Wellington showing up as Beef Wellington on Tfrrs and the East 10K?

Link:www.tfrrs.org/athletes/7742074/Iona/La...

Link:flashresults.ncaa.com/Outdoor/2025/Fir...

Saw this and was at first surprised then amused. It’s a shame he didn’t qualify, would have been fantastic for him to lead a few laps at NCs just to hear the announcers.

NCAA 10km finalists (in order of NCAA rank):

Evan KURUI (Wash State [SO]), NCAA Rank 1; W region, finish 5

Habtom SAMUEL (New Mexico [SO]), NCAA Rank 2; W region, finish 2
Ishmael KIPKURUI (New Mexico [FR]), NCAA Rank 3; W region, finish 1
Dylan SCHUBERT (Furman [SR]), NCAA Rank 4; E region, finish 1
Ernest CHERUIYOT (TX Tech [SO]), NCAA Rank 5; W region, finish 3
Dismus LOKIRA (Alabama [FR]), NCAA Rank 6; E region, finish 6
David MULLARKEY (No. Arizona [SR]), NCAA Rank 9; W region, finish 7
Rodgers KIPLIMO (IA State [JR]), NCAA Rank 10; W region, finish 8
Drew BOSLEY (No. Arizona [SR]), NCAA Rank 12; W region, finish 6
Timothy CHESONDIN (Arkansas [SO]), NCAA Rank 14; W region, finish 12
Dennis KIPRUTO (Alabama [SO]), NCAA Rank 17; E region, finish 3
Denis KIPNGETICH (OK State [SO]), NCAA Rank 20; W region, finish 4
Joey NOKES (BYU [SR]), NCAA Rank 22; W region, finish 10
Creed THOMPSON (BYU [JR]), NCAA Rank 27; W region, finish 11
Ethan COLEMAN (Notre Dame [JR]), NCAA Rank 33; E region, finish 7
Shane BROSNAN (Harvard [SO]), NCAA Rank 39; E region, finish 12
Sam LAWLER (Syracuse [SR]), NCAA Rank 45; E region, finish 8
Cole SPROUT (Stanford [SR]), NCAA Rank 50; W region, finish 9
Murphy SMITH (Navy [SR]), NCAA Rank 61; E region, finish 9
Victor KIPROP (Alabama [SR]), NCAA Rank 68; E region, finish 2
Dylan THROOP (Penn [SR]), NCAA Rank 74; E region, finish 10
Bernard CHERUIYOT (Tulane [FR]), NCAA Rank 82; E region, finish 4
Ben ROSA (Harvard [SR]), NCAA Rank 86; E region, finish 5
William ZEGARSKI (Butler [SO]), NCAA Rank 106; E region, finish 11

jsjdbddjfj wrote:

Rinaldo Marshall dq'ed for having a Wisconsin guy shove him from behind???

They reinstated him thankfully. That was not as bad as the Kidali DQ from B1G but pretty darn close.

A few distance related notes as of Friday morning:

EAST

- I'm looking forward to seeing how Michigan Sophomore Trent McFarland fares in the East Semifinals. He has been battling the big dogs in the BIG 10 all Winter and Spring and has shown he has a great kick in addition to some well-rounded 800m-10k XC range. We'll see how he fares against top guys in Gary Martin, Ethan Strand, Abel Teffra, Liam Murphy, etc.

- Dylan Schubert has a genuine chance of breaking up the East African tirade in the Men's 10000m at Nationals. He had a solid close against the three Kenyans from Alabama and the Kenyan Bernard Cheruiyot Tulane. The West Region is 100% more stacked in this event but I believe that Schubert might produce some Nationals magic once again.

- Some of the guys who qualified for the East 800m Semifinal ran PRs, including True Freshman Camerin Williams from High Point, Sophomore Andrew Magnum from Indiana, and Senior Joseph Patterson from Louisiana. I'd expect the final heats to either be from the gun fast or fast but tactical enough to prevent those guys from making anything special happen.

WEST

- A lot of interesting names missed out on the 1500m West Semifinal, including some quick milers in Iowa State Junior Emmanuel Galindo, Colorado Junior Isaiah Givens, and Washington Junior Ronan McMahon-Staggs. Most of the favorites are still in, but there is a good chance we will see some possible surprises. If I had two dark horses to qualify, they'd be Bradley Senior Jack Crull and California Senior Garrett MacQuiddy (who is mainly just an unknown name)

- The 800m West First Round was about what was to be expected. The top dogs hit their times and places and most of them cruised in well enough. The semifinals are going to shape up to be interesting and highly likely to be unpredictable, especially depending on who ends up in the last heat.

- The West Regional 10k was practically a Pre-Nationals meet for all of those guys, especially considering the top five finishers were prominent in the Indoor 5000m. I'd expect the New Mexico duo to come back and run a solid double. Freshman Kenyan phenom Ishamel Kipkurui did win but I'm not sure if Habtom Samuel let that happen or not, I still haven't seen the race video.

W schedule has moved up - 100 m hurdles at 2:30 eastern. 10,000 not changed from 9:10

https://flashresults.ncaa.com/Outdoor/2025/FirstRounds/East/index.htm

Might want to take notes from Tuohy's sophomore year. She kept it fast enough to get the small qs (they had the advantage of H2 unlike the UNC boys though) and basically paced a time trial to lead 4 other NC State runners, Sydney Seymour (future NC State transfer), and Parker Valby to nationals.

tuohy the goat wrote:

Might want to take notes from Tuohy's sophomore year. She kept it fast enough to get the small qs (they had the advantage of H2 unlike the UNC boys though) and basically paced a time trial to lead 4 other NC State runners, Sydney Seymour (future NC State transfer), and Parker Valby to nationals.

I'm not 100% sure what you're saying here but I expect Scrimgeour & Hartman to do the bare minimum tonight in the to just get through since they both have the 5 on Saturday.

weather will also factor in wrote:

I'm not 100% sure what you're saying here but I expect Scrimgeour & Hartman to do the bare minimum tonight in the to just get through since they both have the 5 on Saturday.

tonight in the 10 *