Nuttycombe, Pre-Nats & other NCAA XC action / Oct 17 & 18

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Some of us predicted there would be several sub 19 on this course this year.

BYU

1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 18, 23

And no Hutchins

She won by 23.5 seconds. Only five women finished within a minute of her. Fantastic collegiate debut!

Loll.

But focus onwho they beat. Fl did not run any top runners it seems and who else was in the field?

At Panorama Farms:

UVA (36) without Gary Martin

VA Tech (43)

WFU (44) without Jojo and O’Brien.
Rocky wins by 26 seconds in 22:44. ACC meet will be insane with Stanford, ND, UNC and Syracuse all with strong teams.

And she took it out easy. Didn’t start pulling away until after 3k.

That's moving. It's unfortunate we didn't find out if Noe could hang with the BYU ace.

I feel very confident Doris and Pamela can run with that and maybe a few more like Hartman Bunnage etc

I don’t think so. Pamela Kosgei…maybe.

Maybe merge it with gans creek and see how that matches up.

Nice run by UVa's Nathan Mountain for 4th and finishing as their top guy. I need to plug for the Ohioans 🙂 He's got a bright future ahead of his in the steeple.

Speaking of Syracuse, Connor Ackley ran unattached today to take 11th and the Syracuse men weren't even in the meet. I'm not sure what is going on there and why he's not running with the team. I've heard several rumors but don't what is and isn't true.

Where is Bunnage? She was on the start list for Nuttycombe but now is not.

Ogwoka was 20sec slower today.

And reference where those who ran in Chicago placed vs nc st there and byu here.

Sadly Natalie Cook shown as DNF by 2k in Wisconsin. Perhaps really DNS.

Kosgei ran 18:59 a year ago in Wisconsin and Gans Creek is a faster course. And if course Doris beat her at Nationals.

I'm always happy to see steeplers getting after it on the grass. Hopefully Mountain can build on a strong XC season and level up on the track in 2026.