Everything looks good on paper now, it’s a “long” season!
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gorun wrote:
Everything looks good on paper now, it’s a “long” season!
True. Anything can happen
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rbtrackfan wrote:
Most schedules released - right now the following show Nuttycombe on their schedule:
Colorado
CBU
Duke
Florida
Florida State
Georgetown
Harvard
Iowa State
Michigan State
NAU
NC State
New Mexico
North Carolina
Notre Dame
Oregon State
Penn State
Providence
Stanford
Utah
Utah State
WisconsinYes, Florida is on the list (which also means they will not preview the championship course). Looks like as usual most of the top programs will be there with Ok State an exception. Still awaiting BYU amd Oregon schedules but they normally would be there too. No Alabama schedule yet either.
For those who care, OR schedule is released and they and BYU will be at Pre Nats in VA and not Nuttycombe this year
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1 My prediction for top 10:
1 NC State
2 Colorado
3 NAU
4 BYU
5 Florida
6 Oregon
7 Notre Dame
8 Oklahoma
9 Stanford
10 UNC
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Add to the list wrote:
FastTuohy wrote:
I agree I am not as optimistic on Utah but Plourde could contend for title. Also not as keen on BYU as they have more of a mix of milers now and lose Frentheway. UNC I think returns their whole team that was 5th. NC St can podium if they return Chmiel/Bush+ Tynismaa (and lose Tuohy). I think it is time for Stanford to perform with the talent they have and podium. The explosion of NM helps most. CO become favorite if healthy and no Tuohy. If they falter FL could emerge victorious (if healthy). ND needs more consistency.
Frentheway returns for XC.
she must have won her appeal as she ran the Dellinger in early 2019 but nothing after that in 2019 XC (in addition to 2018, 2021, 2022). She is on the roster I see.
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UNC returns 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 from a team that placed 5th last year and adds the 5th place finisher from Footlocker and you have them dropping to 10th?
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people be crazy wrote:
UNC returns 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 from a team that placed 5th last year and adds the 5th place finisher from Footlocker and you have them dropping to 10th?
They did, but I can see NC St, CO, FL, NAU, Stanford, ND, OSU, and maybe even BYU, VA, AR beating them this year. I think it will be tough for them to repeat as 5th.
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Nuttycombe is Friday, October 13th. The Wolfpack vs. the Buffs.
It would be a 500 mile roundtrip for me: leave home on Thursday, return on Saturday. It’s very tempting…20 -
Heartland Fan 2 wrote:
Nuttycombe is Friday, October 13th. The Wolfpack vs. the Buffs.
It would be a 500 mile roundtrip for me: leave home on Thursday, return on Saturday. It’s very tempting…Loaded with top teams and top individuals both M and W
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Interesting. The individual women's champion is missing from the list.
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people be crazy wrote:
Interesting. The individual women's champion is missing from the list.
I am not sure how knowledgable Stan is on XC even though he writes the article. But you are right neither of the likely top AL runners are mentioned. Bunnage probably also worth a mention.
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people be crazy wrote:
Interesting. The individual women's champion is missing from the list.
Interesting, the list I saw for the women had Katelyn Touhy, Kelsey Chmiel, Sam Bush, and Amaris Tyynismaa all listed for the "women to watch"
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rbtrackfan wrote:
people be crazy wrote:
UNC returns 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 from a team that placed 5th last year and adds the 5th place finisher from Footlocker and you have them dropping to 10th?
They did, but I can see NC St, CO, FL, NAU, Stanford, ND, OSU, and maybe even BYU, VA, AR beating them this year. I think it will be tough for them to repeat as 5th.
I also like cu, state, NAU, FL, byu etc., but everyone is sleeping on Oklahoma State sans Cook.
They still have Roe, Jepkurui, Hentemann, Born, Galvydyte for a better 1-5 than NAU or Florida. Galvydyte was 62 last yr in team scoring and she'd be #5 and much improved. They also have plenty of depth to compete for 6 & 7 and push for top 5. Sure they don't have much room for error (like everyone but cu and byu), but I'd put them on the podium.
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Gator bait wrote:
I also like cu, state, NAU, FL, byu etc., but everyone is sleeping on Oklahoma State sans Cook.
They still have Roe, Jepkurui, Hentemann, Born, Galvydyte for a better 1-5 than NAU or Florida. Galvydyte was 62 last yr in team scoring and she'd be #5 and much improved. They also have plenty of depth to compete for 6 & 7 and push for top 5. Sure they don't have much room for error (like everyone but cu and byu), but I'd put them on the podium.
Born is the key if she can approach where she was in 2019. The 10,000 she ran outdoors looked promising. Will be tough to guage how good they are given the schedule they have which seems to avoid all the top teams.
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rbtrackfan wrote:
Gator bait wrote:
I also like cu, state, NAU, FL, byu etc., but everyone is sleeping on Oklahoma State sans Cook.
They still have Roe, Jepkurui, Hentemann, Born, Galvydyte for a better 1-5 than NAU or Florida. Galvydyte was 62 last yr in team scoring and she'd be #5 and much improved. They also have plenty of depth to compete for 6 & 7 and push for top 5. Sure they don't have much room for error (like everyone but cu and byu), but I'd put them on the podium.
Born is the key if she can approach where she was in 2019. The 10,000 she ran outdoors looked promising. Will be tough to guage how good they are given the schedule they have which seems to avoid all the top teams.
NAU now has Stearns who was 4th (3 points) Larkin who was 26th (23 points) Reiss who was 47th (40 points) Smee who was 58th Morley 95th (78 points) Kebbe was 99th plus Van Pelt returns, Moore who had a great outdoor season, Freshman Stutzman and Upshaw from UNM who ran 15:54 on the track..
Looks like OKST may have less gaps in the top 4 but then their back end isnt as deep? Should be a fun season to see how it pans out.
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Stutzman could very well be the Chmiel/Cook of the freshman class and really help NAU. Is Morley really back?
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Gator bait wrote:
Stutzman could very well be the Chmiel/Cook of the freshman class and really help NAU. Is Morley really back?
You are right Morley is not.
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