MIAC 2025 XC

The current Tommies would crush the MIAC.

The old tommies dominated miac indoor track for like 40 years and now they can give athletic scholarships.

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I don't think many are on full scholarship, maybe they get a small scholarship. They never dominated MIAC distance, but their jumps and throws were unstoppable.

Anyone else think Seth Clevenger looks like he could be Olaf Coffey’s long lost brother?

I can’t unsee it.

Who finishes first? Coffey in a mile, Clevenger in a 5K or Chunko in a 400?

How many real All-Americans did Chunko have?

BOOM! What an EPIC slam dunk against Chunko !!!!1!!

thanks so much, I literally cannot finish until I see miac content obsessed with one coach. I had just been losing my mind in this dead time between seasons.

Can we all like just get on a zoom call and do a circle jerk while talking about a coach? Thanks!

Which MIAC distance runner has had the best glowup? Stencel? Hoisington? Janzen?

The improvement of the Gustie is really impressive and Quinn has gotten so much faster, but Cole was the only distance All-American in the MIAC. All the 800 guys were fake All-Americans. The way in which Coke has improved and his killer kick is probably unmatched in recent MIAC history. Most of the Northfielders and Tommies were high school stars and too recruits. This is a credit to the coaching duo of Tim Miles and his protege Maxwell.

Stencel is a great runner, but let’s not forget Sean Hartney ran 10 seconds slower in high school and ran 4:11 last year. Cole is certainly ahead of him at this point in his career and his “glow up” is very exciting, but let’s not sh*t on everyone just because he’s having a great year. I think Calvin made similar drops. Or maybe Lars, they were in school for so long they morphed into the same person in my mind.

Not to take away from Cole's huge accomplishments but he was also a stud in high school. Other miac runners have had more impressive glow ups.

Name two

This is slander. Stencel was barely above average. 4:26/9:47 is not very fast. In fact, that's pretty much what Turlington ran and a previous poster talked about impressive his improvement was.

Olaf, Carleton, and Macalester all have multiple athletes with high school PR's. Even Concordia has someone with better high school accolades. Johnnies are simply getting it done in a way others are not.

A monkey coaxing the Oles could win the MIAC right now.

Not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of training shoes.

Coaxing implies coaching, no?

Sounds like the strength coach won this round, no?

improving the program has been his stated goal since day one. Appears to have happened for track. And now XC will come along. The learning curve will be easy for someone coaching distance runners at St. Olaf.