MIAC Cross-Country 2009

MIAC not looking so good in the national rankings this week. St. John's falls 6 spots to 29th as the only ranked men's team. Carleton and St. Thomas women both fall 2 spots to 18th & 21st, respectively. Bethel women move up 1 spot to 11th.

Well, what do you expect?

Besides Borner, not a lot of bright spots in the miac this year. Women should get 4 teams at NCAA's and the men probably 3.

MIAC Sucks wrote:

Women should get 4 teams at NCAA's and the men probably 3.

Are you talking about the Central Region here or the MIAC?

Should be an interesting weekend for cross-country. Gustavus, Augsburg, Mac, St. John's, St. Ben's, Hamline, St. Mary's, St. Olaf, St. Thomas, St. Kate's all running Jim Drews and Bethel is at Oshkosh.

Childs Walker is running pretty well... granted, not as well as Borner, but pretty close...

MIAC Sucks wrote:

Well, what do you expect?

Besides Borner, not a lot of bright spots in the miac this year. Women should get 4 teams at NCAA's and the men probably 3.

Not a lot of bright spots? I would say the MIAC women in general are doing quite well this year with 3 teams consistently ranked in the top 20 in the nation and at least a few All-American possibilities. Also Greeno, Ruon, and some of the other men are having great seasons.

Even though my mavorite food is obviously cookies, today I am enjoying a nice box of a half dozen Dunkin Donuts!

I would say the MIAC women in general are the same or worse than last year. Looking team by team, none seem to be much better. Maybe Bethel, but if they lose one, OUCH!

not true wrote:

MIAC Sucks wrote:

Well, what do you expect?

Besides Borner, not a lot of bright spots in the miac this year. Women should get 4 teams at NCAA's and the men probably 3.

Not a lot of bright spots? I would say the MIAC women in general are doing quite well this year with 3 teams consistently ranked in the top 20 in the nation and at least a few All-American possibilities. Also Greeno, Ruon, and some of the other men are having great seasons.

[quote]Midworst wrote:

I would say the MIAC women in general are the same or worse than last year. Looking team by team, none seem to be much better. Maybe Bethel, but if they lose one, OUCH![quote]

I disagree w/ you here. I would say Carleton is better than last year, with 2 strong front-runners in Childs-Walker and Roach. Bethel is definitely better than last year. True, they aren't very deep, but unless they do lose one I wouldn't count them out of being top 10 contention at nats. And as far as individuals go, the MIAC has a decent chance at having 2 in the top 5 at nats w/ Borner and Simone, as well as a few other All-American possibilities like Roach and Potter, and Branigan always seems to peak well at the end of the season and was close to AA last year.

Last year the MIAC had 5 All Americans (Borner, Theisen, Gleason, Ruon, Greeno). I'd say it's likely there will be anywhere from 6-8 this year. Borner, Childs Walker, Greeno, and Ruon are fairly safe bets. On the women's side Roach, Potter, Branigan, and Russ could get there, while the men have Haglund, Bauer, Marotz, Gamble, and maybe Eckstrom. I wouldn't put it out of the question to have four AAs from each gender.

They've changed the start of the MIAC 8K course, so the men now use the same start line as the women. After crossing under the bridge for the first time, the course is the same as it has been.

http://miac-online.org/documents/2009/10/15/MCCcourse09.jpg?id=1616

Augsburg was the top MIAC team at the Jim Drew's Invite? Did I just see a pig fly by my window?

Also why didn't the Tommie varsity men run?

Tommie varsity went to Oberlin. 1 NYU, 2 Allgeheny,3 Carnegie melon, 4 UST.... 7 John Hopkins All currently ranked teams. Augsburg beats Olaf, SJU, and Hamline!!! my head's spinning

Augsburg's solid showing last week in Kenosha seems to have been somewhat ignored.

Based on the last couple weeks it looks like it could be a four team toss up for the championship between Augsburg, St. Olaf, St. Johns and St. Thomas. Carleton, Hamline, Bethel close behind and St. Mary's, Gustavus, Macalaster and Concordia also participating...

St Thomas is the CLEAR favorite right now. Somebody else might beat them, but it would be an upset. Olaf once again doesn't look all that great, and Augsburg is coming on strong. Greeno, Eckstrom, and Haglund all running really well in terms of individuals.

its what you do in november that makes em remember.

miac team title wrote:

St Thomas is the CLEAR favorite right now. Somebody else might beat them, but it would be an upset. Olaf once again doesn't look all that great, and Augsburg is coming on strong. Greeno, Eckstrom, and Haglund all running really well in terms of individuals.

i would agree that st. thomas is the favorite, but i don't think you can say it's overwhelming. yes, they beat a ranked johns hopkins team, but if jhu actually ran their varsity then they shouldn't have been ranked in the first place (their #1 guy was 30th overall). every team in the conference has a serious lack of depth, and the tommies are no exception-- if their #5 struggles they have a huge gap to #6. i still think it's wide open, and i would not be surprised if the winning team at conference scored well over 100 points.

it will probably come down to who is actually healthy in two weeks. don't put too much stock in st. john's performance at jim drews; they never seem to run well there. if st. olaf actually had all five guys run well on the same day, they could be pretty good, but that's a big if. augsburg and hamline benefited from putting guys up front at jim drews, but that impact will be limited in a smaller meet. i wouldn't be surprised if any one of those five teams won, and i also wouldn't surprised if any of them got fifth. i'm guessing it will be one of those meets where you watch the top 50 finish and still have no idea what happened.

They also beat #20 nationally ranked Ohio Northern, who did run their varsity.

It should be an exciting conference meet!

thanks, i missed ohio northern. i hate the way the rankings are formatted now. no one should have to scroll through three pdf pages to figure out who's ranked.